Food Posts

31Mar
3

Sashimi Fail

J took me out to sushi for dinner tonight. We decided to try this little sushi place down the street from us. I was hesitant, given that it looks kinda janky from the outside, but whatever,  let’s give this a shot.

The inside of the restaurant way exceeded my expectations. It was clean and very cutely decorated. All the fish at the sushi bar looked really fresh too.

My all time favorite item at a sushi place is salmon nigiri:

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Last time we had sushi, J suggested we get sashimi instead of nigiri because at that particular place it was more cost-effective. I’ve never had sashimi, and trying new foods at a sushi restaurant scares me. Let’s face it, last time I did that I came super close to vomiting in my mouth. I had to spit out the roll. OK whatever, I’ll try sashimi.

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Posted by Caro in Animals, Food, Random
18Mar
0

Croutons

So lunch time rolls around yesterday at work. Of course I decided that sleeping an extra 3 minutes that morning was infinitely more valuable than bringing my lunch to work. I rolled down to the cafeteria and hit up the salad bar.

Pretty basic stuff there. Piled on a bed of lettuce, a bunch of spinach, a sprinkle of cheese. I’m about halfway through the line at this point, and for some reason someone put the croutons here, in the middle of the assembly line. Oh well, I can have croutons in the middle of my salad instead of on top.

So I grab the spoon, the very flat spoon I might add, and fill it with mini croutons. As I’m bringing it to my plate, many of them fall off.

An older gentleman approaches from the wrong side of the line. He was looking for the croutons, since they weren’t at the end. (“Can’t forget the croutons!!”) He sees my crouton fail and says, “Well here look you’re spilling them all over the place!” Sorry sir! So after I put about half a spoonful onto my plate I hand him the spoon. He looks at me and he’s like, “That’s not enough croutons. You need more than that!”

Seeing as how croutons contain yeast, I’m not supposed to have ANY croutons so I politely declined. He wouldn’t take no for an answer. He scooped up a bunch of mini croutons and put them on my plate. “Here you go. Now that’s much better. Everyone needs croutons!”

Thank you?

Posted by Caro in Food, Life, Random, Work, weird
08Mar
1

Coldstone Creamery: Scoop It Up

Apparently if you’re too lazy to get a job but still want the thrill of scooping ice cream then mashing things into it, there’s hope for you yet. Wii makes a game called Coldstone Creamery: Scoop It Up.

 

Seriously?

So yeah, you can pay $20 to have this game and make virtual ice cream concoctions. Or you could get a job a Coldstone, work 3 hours, and have similar satisfaction plus $20 in your pocket.

I just don’t get it.

Posted by Caro in Food, Money, Random, Work, weird
15Feb
0

Chicago: A Picture Story

A little later than promised, but here they are!! Chicago is a really awesome city, and I definitely plan to go back.

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Posted by Caro in Food, Life, Travel, cool, fun and tagged with
10Feb
0

I want to post Chicago pictures…

…But I feel like crap :(

One blog is enough for the day. I can say that Chicago was absolutely spectacular though. I ate too much, shopped a bit, drank a little, and saw not nearly enough. I got to wear all my warm clothes and had a great time in the freezing cold. It snowed too!

Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow and put up a picture or two. If not, Monday for sure!

Posted by Caro in Food, Health, Shopping, Things to do, Travel, cool, fun and tagged with
01Feb
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Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Food, Life, Things to do, weird
20Jan
0

Chicago

I totally forgot to post about my upcoming travels. Trip #1: Chicago!

A friend of mine has to be out there for 2 weeks for work, so her company is paying for her hotel over the weekend in between. When she initially invited me for the weekend, I was hesitant since I’m trying to start up a savings account again. Luckily my boss gave me (another) free plane ticket anywhere in the US this year for the holidays! Free flight + free lodging = recipe for a wonderful girls trip in the Windy City!

One hitch: We’re going in February, which is notoriously frigid in Chicago. Keep in mind also that I am a cold-blooded creature, and require constant heating. I mean seriously, 55 degrees is COLD. 45 – well it might as well just snow. So looking at the weather forecast indicating temps in the high 20′s/low 30′s minus windchill, I’d bet a 30% chance I would freeze to death.

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Posted by Caro in Food, Shopping, Travel, cool, fun and tagged with
29Oct
1

Amazing

I’m kinda hungry, and was just sent this picture:

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Um….yeah now I’m starving. Look at this perfectly cooked piece of bread and cheese perfection. YUM. Who wants to make me one of these, grilled to exactly that color?

Thanks :)

Posted by Caro in Food, Random
25Aug
1

My Morning

This was how my day started. One can only hope it goes up from here.

I busted out my LAST 2 packets of maple and brown sugar oat meal. Poured them in a bowl. Opened the cabinet to grab a glass to pour some OJ.

Literally as soon as this door opened, a glass careened down from the top shelf.

Like, it must have been on the edge and only staying up because the door was closed.

So that shit tumbles out and lands on my Ikea bowl. I didn’t look too closely but i think the glass is OK (It’s a serious piece of glass, heavy). The bowl cracked/broke in 2 places and there are pieces of porcelain or whatever material ALL OVER my kitchen. Dry oatmeal all over the counter, stove and floor.

FUCK

So I clean this up. I think I have all the porcelain. Start over. New bowl. New packets of oatmeal (this time going for the regular flavor since that’s all I had left). Grabbed a new glass just in case the other one is broken. This time nothing falls out of the cabinet. Score.

So I cook the oatmeal, pour a glass of OJ. I have the milk out too, which I intend to pour into my oatmeal. I go to pour milk in the oatmeal, but instead pour the ORANGE JUICE. So now I have a glass of OJ and a bowl of oatmeal and orange juice.

FUCK

So i put everything away. Dump the oatmeal. Move the poured glass of OJ over to where I will be eating my meal. This part is OK and cannot risk being messed up. Grab yet another bowl and start over. This time with Cheerios. I can’t be wasting 2 more packets of oat meal – that shit is expensive. Grab the milk. Pour it. Go to put it back. Step in a piece of porcelain. Small cut to my heel.

FUCK

Whatever, I’m hungry. Bring my cereal over to the desk and enjoy my 3rd attempt at breakfast.

Posted by Caro in Food
19Aug
3

Cake

I’m having issues when it comes to my birthday cake this year. Serious issues. And for something as trivial as a cake, I feel this shouldn’t be happening.

First off, I for some reason had my heart set on an ice cream cake. I have no idea why. Maybe it’s all the ice cream I’ve been eating since surgery. I was thinking Red Velvet cake with Cookies n Cream ice cream. It sounds pretty delish in my personal opinion. Turns out neither Baskin Robins nor Dairy Queen do Red Velvet. Next stop on the cake hunt: Cold Stone.

And there it was: the perfect cake. Cake Batter Confetti….offering layers of moist red velvet cake, Cake Batter™ ice cream and rainbow sprinkles wrapped in a fluffy white frosting.

YUM.

Too bad the location of my party will not allow ice cream cakes.

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Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Food, Rants and raves, Things to do
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