I celebrate with food

This past Saturday was my Birthday, the big 2-4! and guess how I celebrated it…with food! for lunch I had this ginormous reuben sandwich that was stacked higher than my mouth could stretch. with a cup of french onion soup…you know, we all need some veggies every now and then. after lunch the Husband insisted that I have a birthday cake, I’m not really into sweets so I told him it was no big deal. well Mr. husband made a trip to a Spanish bakery called “La Suprema” and bought this huge milk cake with a strawberry center and it was topped off with fruits. it was mucho delicioso! not too sweet and the milk made the cake so moist and yummy. I was very pleased for dinner, we decided to try some place new to us. we live right off of Buford HWY, a food addicts heaven (especially if you’re into Asian and Hispanic food) and we have driven past this sushi bar plenty of times. it has a picture of a great big puffer fish on the sign but I have never bothered to find out the name. well I chose to go in and omg it was the most amazing sushi I had ever had! their specialty was puffer fish but I was too much of  a wuss to try it I had mackerel nigiri (my absolute favourite), salmon skin maki, and ebi nigiri. after a bottle of sake and a plate of sushi (along with seaweed salad, a house salad and miso soup) I was too stuffed to eat anymore, but there was so much on the menu that I wanted to try. oh, by the way the place was called Kang Nam and I highly recommend it. the staff was friendly and the atmosphere was…cute ^_^. yes, that’s the word I want to use.

but all in all, my big 2-4 was wonderfully spent with the ones I love most. my husband, son and my family…oh, and food

sushi time

my first time trying my hands at home made sushi.

ingredients:
short grain rice
rice vinegar
salt
sugar
seaweed paper
carrots
cucumber
imitation crab sticks

all purchased from the local Wal-Mart (who knew?)

I followed Alton Brown’s recipe for sushi rice (he is my fave foodnetwork star):

2 cups sushi or short grain rice
2 cups water, plus extra for rinsing rice
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon kosher salt

Place the rice into a mixing bowl and cover with cool water. Swirl the rice in the water, pour off and repeat 2 to 3 times or until the water is clear.
 
Place the rice and 2 cups of water into a medium saucepan and place over high heat. Bring to a boil, uncovered. Once it begins to boil, reduce the heat to the lowest setting and cover. Cook for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, for 10 minutes.
 
Combine the rice vinegar, sugar and salt in a small bowl and heat in the microwave on high for 30 to 45 seconds. Transfer the rice into a large wooden or glass mixing bowl and add the vinegar mixture. Fold thoroughly to combine and coat each grain of rice with the mixture. Allow to cool to room temperature before using to make sushi or sashimi.

I didn’t have a rolling mat so I used plastic wrap which turned out better than I had imagined. but I didn’t have a sharp enough knife so I kinda squished the roll as I was slicing it. but at the end it’s was mucho delicioso!

food you can wear

 I made these today. not because I was very hungry and had nothing in my fridge, because I’m going to take my products down to the flea market and sell them.

peanut butter squids!

found these at the farmer’s market this morning. it had a settle peanut butter flavour which disappointed me ( I was hoping for a kick of PB in my mouth),  but they’re rather tasty. and they’re really chewy too, my jaw started hurting after a while. a box of these and a pork tamale made a satisfying breakfast

snack crazy! or is it a crazy snack?

Another weekend gone and another wonderful trip to the Buford Highway Farmers Market. From frozen pork brains to sesame seed pancakes, I absolutely love this place! So here are this week’s find:

Not really sure what this says but from the picture I presumed that it was a cookie dipped in chocolate and shaped to look like little tree trunks

And I was right. They were delicious!

I’ve had Dadu ice cream before and I swore that it was the most amazing vanilla ice cream I had ever tasted; rich, creamy, and Light. So I decided to try another one of their products, the Dadu Roll. It certainly did not stand up to my expectations. the waffle roll was chewy and tough and the vanilla ice cream in the middle didn’t taste anything like the Dadu vanilla ice cream I was use to. I don’t recommend this.

Spam, we all know this product. I bought this not to eat, but to save as a collector’s item.

Ramune Soda (peach flavour). Now this is an interesting soda, not because of it’s taste but because of how you have to open it. But I’ll get to that later.  This soda is so lightly carbonated compared to American sodas such as Coke or Pepsi and that is why I love it. And it’s peach flavour isn’t too empowering or sweet.

now to the part where I open the soda…

Atop the soda bottle is what they call “the plunger”. And inside the bottle, at the very top, is a marble. you use the plunger to push down on the marble until the marble drops into the neck of the bottle. the marble will remain in the neck because the neck has been “pinch in”. I’m getting better at this process. the first time I tried my hand at this, the soda squirted all over me. Ooh and here’s a video!

housing and doughnuts

we’re house shopping. do you have any idea how hard it is to find a [decent] house in a SAFE neighborhood in Atlanta when you’re not a millionaire? we might have to resort to getting a home in, shall I even say it, south Georgia *shudders*. 

in other news, I bought some cat grass for my kitty to chew on. yeah she loves it, but now she’s coughing it up everywhere and I am not amused.

 P.S. I really love Krispy Kreme doughnuts