At Home Sushi Buffet

This was quite a few weeks ago when Camera Man and I were having our fun with the whirl pool hotel (that is still there but we need to take a break from it and do some other stuff too or the only thing we'll have on stock is that hotel... not exactly good either) but with all the posts I've had between this was kind of put on hold.

Now that I have some spare time and it's been a few days since I last posted I thought I'd share with you how Camera Man and I liked to end a wonderfully hot, sexy and sexy filled day out.... sushi night! As many of you know by now, I can't eat gluten products so that also means I have very very little in the way of places I can go out to get something out. Right now that is limited to what I trust of 2 places, a kind of place like you would think of a school cafeteria type situation but then more advanced and a lot better for you and a sushi place that I've gotten to trust quite a lot. The first is nice if I want a grilled hamburger or chicken breast as they have an open grill but that about all I have for selection while the sushi place has lots open to me as long as it's not battered, there is no artificial crab and they leave out things that have soy sauce (it's wheat based for some reason).

This last time we ordered from there I asked them if they would come up with something different and gave them a price range. What they came up with was ok but won't be my beloved sunrise rolls (also shown below). The one was more of a dessert type roll then a main meal with apple in it, the next was a mix of different fish and then of course my sunrise roll, that's the one with all the salmon so it's the pink on in the middle of everything. All of the dishes include avocado in some form with exception of Camera Man's combo dish.

On the right hand side is Camera Man's dishes and he usually gets a combo mix which is the mixed package you see and the one right next to it is a in-out roll with eel and avocado. It was a wonderful meal and REALLY filling, so much so that I had left overs for the next morning *yum*. And the little glass bottle on the table is Sake... what better to go with sushi!

Favorite Food - Quality Street

I have 2 entries to make about some feed that I love along with some photos so it was a toss up between which to post first but since I'm sitting here nibbling on some of these I thought I'd post about them first.

I, like I think most women bbw or not, love chocolate at least a bit. I am of course no acception ;) For the moment my chocolate fix happens to be a nice big tin of Quality Street chocolates.

I like this mix so much because it comes with 12 different kinds within what ever tin/box I buy. Although I wish they'd include more of some over more then the others, I really do enjoy all of them when it comes down to it. I do admit I don't care for the little caramel 'medallion' ones as they have no chocolate and are a hardish caramel. I like caramels that are soft or even liquidish like Rolos are but I can't have those due to a factory of gluten warning on them.

You'll see from the photos I took the bottom image... that is the little disc paper that is in every tin, when you buy a box, it's on the box instead. And in the order that you see above from left to right, top to bottom :)

1. Orange Chocolate Crunch (1 of my top 2 favorites, I have a huge weakness for orange/chocolate things!) - milk chocolate with little candies orange crisps mixed in
2. Orange Cream (the 2nd of my favorite 2) - orange cream in milk chocolate
3. Noisette Triangle - milk chocolate with praline filling
4. Milk Chocolate Block - just what it says
5. Caramel Swirl - softish caremal in milk chocolate (their version of Rolo in short)
6. Strawberry Dream - Strawberry cream in milk chocolate
7. Toffee Penny (the one I don't really care for) - Just a hardish piece of caramel without chocolate at all
8. Toffee Deluxe - chewy caramel in milk chocolate (think Rolos on steroids)
9. Coconut Eclair - coconut paste in milk chocolate (their version of Mounds bars but finer coconut)
10. Toffee Finger (don't mind this one because it has chocolate) - hardish caramel covered in milk chocolate
11. Fudge - fudge fondue in milk chocolate
12. Hazelnut In Caramel - a whole hazel nut encased in soft caramel and then in milk chocolate

It's a pretty good mix over all and not too expensive. A tin like this of roughly a pound worth of chocolates runs me between 6euro and 7euro. It's a good go too when I want chocolate and I know it's gluten free! So there you have it, another yummy I like. I have another post to be made about some food I like but we'll save that for another time. *KISSES*

Cooking At Night

Although I did this couple weeks ago when I first got stuck at home with this damn injury, there is still something soothing and surreal about making something you know that no matter how you make it, will be yummy, refreshing and enjoyable when you get to eat it the next day! One of the recent nights I was making fresh home-made fruit salad with sour cream/orange juice dressing. I put in 2 different melons, raspberries, strawberries, canned mandarins, blue berries, and doughnut peaches (also known as Saturn peaches). The wonderful sweet/sour fruits mixed with a cup of sour cream (this is a HUGE bowl, my biggest plastic storage bowls!), half cup of orange juice and a couple tablespoons of honey. This was one of my childhood favorites that my mother use to make any time it was hot out and we could afford all the fresh fruit that goes into it! If anyone wants the recipe, don't bother to ask as there really isn't a true recipe! What ever fresh fruit you want excluding watermelon (or any really watery type melons) and no acidic types such as pineapples. Bananas go well but then be prepared to use up the salad in about 2days or they will go to mush and turn colors. Mix up the sour cream, orange juice and honey up and pour over, mix well and serve well chilled.

So yea, this is how I spent a good hour one late night after Camera Man went to bed... it took that long to cut the melons without cutting myself without having much in the way of depth vision :P

June BBQ

The calm before the storm as it were this morning. I have a hard work day ahead of me but at least it will be easier then I expected. I thought I was going to have to work the next 5days straight but I must have over looked that I already have a day off tomorrow which will be very badly needed because of having way too many stress issues with yesterday's day off.

So this morning I've come to share a few of the photos from the small BBQ Camera Man and I had with my folks. Just some of the food we had but I forgot to get photos of the shrimp and potato salad *shrug* oh well. But this is just some of the stuff I like to eat ;) Sure there is tons more stuff but this is what was for the day. We had hamburgers (the yellowish stuff on top is squeeze style liquid butter stuff instead of using oil), salmon, huge ass mushrooms with garlic butter and there were sausages for every one else but me as they have gluten.

I hope we'll have another BBQ or 2 before the summer is over but I guess that just will have to wait and see how the summer goes and work. These photos were all taken with my smart phone btw, so I certainly will have to make sure I get more 'sneak' photos in there from time to time! *KISSES*

Relaxing Afternoon

Onto something more pleasant :) It has been a VERY wild week and toward the end I really just need a 'quiet moment' as it were, which is really rather hard to find in this damn over crowded city!

So while out Thursday I grabbed myself some lunch to go, some dessert and took off driving. I had to go toward a part of the city I don't get to go often to pick up some custom made shorts from a tailor I asked to make me some and from there I drove about 15mins into a big open kind of trucking industrial area. Open space, semi quiet, long open road, lots of sunshine and time to myself. Perfect!

I turned around to a space across the road to park, pushed my chair back as far as it would go, put some good music on the speakers and dug into my lunch. I think I posted about my current food weakness being a certain sushi roll named the 'Sunrise Roll'. I got a couple of them! Mmmm YEA! I almost forgot that I had my smart phone with me and oh yea the camera in it! But I did manage to remember before it was all too late.

(salmon, cream cheese & avocado on the inside - salmon, apple/onion sauce & fish eggs outside)

My dessert of choice this day was a liquid one by the means of, and yes we have them out here even if it's only very recently, a hot Starbucks coffee. But not just any coffee! A decaf peppermint mocha! *drool*. 2 shots of hot espresso coffee, hot steamed milk, squirts of chocolate sauce and to top it all off squirts of peppermint syrup! Perfect ending to lunch I must say, but damn do you see all the things marked on my cup?! :P Skinny milk (non-fat) - check, decaf - check, mocha (chocolate) - check, peppermint syrup - check and no whipped cream - check. Yea yea, no whipped cream! I rather have the room that takes up filled with more yummy steamed milk to drink rather then whipped cream that just melts and I never notice it.

And while I was finishing my liquid dessert, I looked around, watched the trucks going in and out, listened to some music and thought of all my poor people back in the USA who are still only wishing it'd get warm enough to melt the snow and took this shot just to keep you feeling bright and keeping your hopes going that it will come! Here in Belgium, we've had 60's most of the week with LOTS of sun! Now it's a week of starting in the low 50's and working to the mid-60's by the weekend with more sun predicted, I can't wait! Camera Man promised me that if it does stay that way, we'll go for some drives with me all dolled up in some sexy dresses I have and the camera!

(yes, it's a small field of freshly grown dandelions)