Anna N

I am!

Tis!

🙂Because I only have myself to please. The last of my chicken ballotine, a hard-boiled egg and, for dipping, some of the sauce left over from the Japanese grilled baby back ribs. That sauce is just too good to waste.

Yay! I think you earned it!

Okonomiyaki (how you like it). Today I liked it with chopped broccoli stems, cabbage, Sichuan flavoured spam and black forest bacon.

An applewood smoked cheddar with caramelized onions can hit the spot.

I am loving the look of that salad.

They are only called Weight Watchers. No hint if they are watching weight going up or weight going down. If the former then the location is perfect. Just saying.

I suspect both are more related to how things become separated in thrift stores than they are to any functionality.

Exactly. I am old and crotchety and when I go out for a meal I want to be able to converse with my dining companions. There are still places I can find that accommodate my eccentricities. But I also know that is not to everyone’s liking. Younger people often want to lose them selves in the anonymity of the noise. It is still possible to find separate venues that accommodate both of these extremes. But one will often need have to accept a compromise. But then life is just a series of compromises.

I am exhausted just reading about it. You put me to shame. Time to stop beating yourself up I think! I am with heidih!

Hijiki gohan (mixed rice with seaweed) garnished with kinshi tamago (shredded egg crepe).

Hope you don’t have any sharp knives in the cutlery basket with blades up! Click. Cured me of my bad habits. Well at least this bad habit!

I have only ever purchased peanuts in the shell to feed the chipmunks at the cottage years and years ago! I am not much help.

I only had one job today — find a place for lunch. I thought I had it nailed. I had it in the back of my mind that at some point I would love to visit Galleria This is a chain of Korean grocery stores in the GTA. Recently @Kerry Beal and I had noticed one seemed to have popped up very close to home. While I was glancing through the website I got the impression that there was a proper food court within the supermarket. (We have visited another branch which indeed had a proper food court.) Well there sort of was and there sort of wasn’t! It wasn’t really a food court but a place where you could pick up a tray of food from steam tables or put in an order from a very limited menu and sit in a rather uncomfortable area to eat it. We were both disappointed and decided we wanted somewhere else for lunch. The closest place was Yes Sushi. Kerry asked for tea which was provided very quickly with 2 cups although I don’t drink tea. The tea was brought to the table along with a small dish of wasabi. I am glad we both recognized that these two things do not go together! I ordered sake which took forever to reach the table but came with two choka. Kerry doesn’t indulge at lunchtime! All this was forgiven when we came to realize that our server’s command of the English language was a bit challenging although not nearly as challenging as our grasp of Japanese! I don’t usually order or eat these rolls so I’m not sure which one this is! We had to ask for the ginger. This seems to be something necessary in all of these type restaurants. For me this was the tastiest bite of the whole meal. It was described as a mutton skewer. It was wondrously fatty lamb. This showed up as we were enjoying our savoury bites. Initially we were not quite sure what it was. I was about to sample one of these fritters when Kerry wondered if perhaps this was our deep-fried milk. I stuck a chopstick into the sauce and tasted it and sure enough it was chocolate. Being Westerners and of a certain mindset we pushed this dish aside until the end. Squid tempura. Tender and tasty. Malaysian Fried rice. This had quite a spicy kick. Another role. Mapo tofu. Took my breath away and not in a good way! Wow this had some spice. Shrimp tempura Shumai. Steamy hot and tasty. Inari sushi And rather sad tamagoyaki sushi. Kalbi ribs. Lip smacking good. So despite my failure to execute my one and only job today we enjoyed a pleasant lunch.

@Kerry Beal and I were in the thrift store today and came across this: Anyone?

This morning had a wonderful opportunity to shop in a newly discovered Korean grocery store only 18 minutes from my house. This caught my eye almost as soon as I stepped into the store. The photograph just doesn’t do it justice. It is the most beautiful looking lettuce.

Today @Kerry BealAnd I were at a thrift store and became mutual enablers. She spotted this gorgeous square dish which she said had my name on it and I spotted the lovely beakers which had her name on them. I got one beaker and she got two. (That is some leftover label glue on the edge of the plate not a chip!)

But you shouldn’t have skipped spelling class just to play with fancy toys.😂😂😂😘

Seaweed salad and an egg with some furikake.

Indeed it has. The one @Kerry Beal and I had up north has been given a new lease on life. Kerry donated it to our favourite butcher up there who does some catering. He was most excited. But it will be a while before we learn how he got along with it. The toys they come and the toys they go but we always have fun.

She probably has one of these. She just hasn’t told us yet.

Simmered hijiki seaweed with carrots, aburaage and snow peas. More of the chicken leg ballotine from last evening. This was my first time cooking with the seaweed and I couldn’t not share this photograph with you of how it looked when I poured it from the package into the bowl:

These are flourless—here. I could not imagine eating a coconut macaroon that size. I like them but find them too sweet even when the sugar is reduced and they are a bit of a challenge without any (opposing) molars. ☹️

Don’t be such a spoilsport! Leaves something to everyone’s imagination.😂 😂 😂