27 June 2008

22.06.08

Breakfast: turkey sausage with fried onion, potato, spinach, celery and fresh basil
Breakfast

At my Uncle Tom's house for my Grandma June's 75th birthday partay: bread, chicken souvlaki, greek salad from Homer's
Bread, Greek Salad, Chicken Souvlaki

Dessert: Baklava from Homer's and a chocolate coconut cupcake I made. I made these really sexy cupcakes but failed to take a photo of them in all their sexiness. Oh well.
Dessert!

21.06.08

Chicken salad with cottage cheese and mango salsa
Chicken salad with cottage cheese and salsa

Suuushi! Shared with John!
Sushi!

Shiitake mushroom tempura, shared three ways
Shiitake mushroom tempura

Over-dressed wakame salad
Wakame salad

Dark Lindt chocolate square
Lindt Chocolate

An unfortunately blurry cake batter-spoon-licking photo
Cake-batter spoon

Microwave popcorn with ketchup seasoning
Microwave popcorn with ketchup seasoning

20.06.08

Poached eggs on saffron brown rice (again!)
Saffron brown rice with poached eggs

This was a piece of pizza, but I didn't want to hobble upstairs to get my camera before I ate most of it.
Pizza

Burger and Frites from the Wall Street Diner (we've been eating out lots, eh?)
Burger and frites

23 June 2008

19.06.08

Saffron brown rice with poached eggs and coarse pepper
Leftover saffron rice with poached eggs

Pre-tattoo Coconut Bar with almonds
Coconut Bar with almonds

Post-tattoo jelly beans
Gluten-free jelly beans

...and quinoa/sesame bar
Quinoa/sesame bar

(Because I can) A very fresh tattoo!
Blue-ringed octopus tattoo
I just feel like I have to say it every time: tattoo by Alex Adams

Pizza!
Pizza

Banana! I've heard that if you peel the banana from the bottom, there won't be any pesky strings in the way, but no. It's a lie!
Banana

17.06.08

Baron of beef leftovers with roasted veggies, spinach and a poached egg
Breakfast

Gingerbread cookie
Gingerbread cookie

Buhnana
Banana

Pizza leftovers
Pizza mit ketchup

Vidalia onion soup with cheese toast cubes, salad and gin-spiked limeade
Vidalia onion soup with salad and gin-spiked limeade

Pixie Caramel, another Kiwi Candy Bar from Amber and Paul
Pixie Caramel

Very long, satisfying chew!
Pixie Caramel

16.06.08

Toast with coffee
Toast with butter and coffee

Tomato soup with cheddar
Tomato soup with cheddar

Burnt grilled cheese
Grilled cheese

Trid wanted her lunch photographed as well. She decided not to have a grilled cheese sandwich.
Trid's lunch

It was the agency I work for's 25th anniversary/AGM thing and instead of a whole pig roast like they usually do, this year they opted for a baron of beef dinner.
Baron of beef dinner

Congratulations, L. Avender! (should be L'Avenir)
Way to go, L. Avender for 25 years!

Oh-so-sweet L. Avender cake
L. Avender cake

17 June 2008

15.06.08

We went to my sister's new house for Father's Day and Katrina's first birthday! I started the day with Dad's drunken fruit salad: watermelon and strawberries soaked in vodka and Grand Marnier
Dad's drunken fruit salad

My contribution: chips and salsa
My chips and salsa

Hamburger, warm potato salad, more fruit salad, pizza thing
Lunch

Penguin cake
Birthday cake

My dad and I broke out the chips so we could finish the onion dip, haha.
Chips and dip

I picked off bits of turkey from a giant turkey breast roast Catherine had and dipped it in a mustard/maple syrup mixture. Le Yum.
Turkey with mustard and maple syrup

Cheese toast with smoked cheddar
Cheese toast

14.06.08

Onion bagel with butter on the way to Gimili
Onion bagel with butter

Pickerel cheeks, fries and Icelandic rye bread
Pickerel Cheeks, fries and bread

Chocolate ice cream with salty peanut butter
PB chocolate ice cream

Brown rice pasta with breadcrumbs and bacon
Brown rice pasta with bread crumbs and bacon

13.06.08

Organic quick oatmeal with almond milk, maple syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg
Oatmeal

Lunch: Egg salad, sweet potato mash (hey, I've been hanging with a one-year-old!), pickles, crackers
Lunch

I made little egg salad canapés!
Egg salad canapé

Chicken sandwich with Frites from the Wall Street Diner
Chicken sandwich and frites

14 June 2008

12.06.08

Crumpets: with plum butter and maple honey
Crumpets

Kimchee Ramen with sesame oil and scallions
Kimchee ramen

Prunes
Prunes

Brown rice sushi (mango, green pepper, scallions, mayonnaise, crumbs)(or whatever I had in the fridge)
Brown rice sushi

Leftovers (no pasta)
Leftovers (no pasta)