Lentil Salad and a bonus salad

Amaretto Sours and homemade pizza

As a new feature i've decided to add a drink to this menu. Eric and i were having a lazy friday - in part due to thursday's apartment football game. We were both kinda lazy and broke, but still wanted to do something so i thought i would make cocktails and pizza - so civilized.

I have a special Amaretto sour recipe that i took inspiration from the Paddock at Queen and Bathurst. What makes it different is using lemon rather than cheap bar lime, along with vodka and orange juice.

As for the pizzas, they were good, but pretty standard. We were going to make them on real dough, but the grocery store didn't have any. We used whole wheat nan instead.

One of the more unique toppings we used was rapini. I still had a bunch left from the cod, so it was pretty good, i put a little olive oil on mine to keep it from burning.

Eric made one, i made another, and the third was a collaboration.

(mine's the one with out the sauce)

Here we are ready to pounce!

Tuna School Lunch - fish week continued

This is a really simple tuna and white bean lunch, that i'm sure i've made before for this blog, but you're getting it again. I like it because its cheap and i usually have the ingredients in the pantry. As for the veggies- that really depends on what i have on hand. This time it was carrots, onions and peppers.


For the dressing i usually mix mayo and mustard and if i have any add a little kick of ranch dressing since it compliments everything really well.

The only issue you i have with this meal is that it makes pretty much a week's worth of lunches and by the fourth day you are really sick of eating it. I served it this time on spinach, but its actually better on arugula or that spinach arugula mix.

lunch

Sushi in Markham

This saturday we had a an unofficial field trip to Markham - lead by my school friend Natasha. We did Pacific Mall and historic Unionville - ending our trip with all you can eat sushi. As my second round at all you can eat, i'm not the greatest judge. Things came out kinda irregularly, but everything we ate was very good.

Here are a few of the highlights - we also had sushi and sushi pizza - but these were the most memorable. We ended the meal with green tea ice cream and fried bananas (i just had the banana)

Steak - this was actually really nice.

Sushi lights at night

Bi-lingual

Some chicken dish i didn't try

Eel pancake

(limit one per table)

Miso eggplant - this was so tender we had two

Soba noodles in a light broth

Fried Rice - leftover killer

I had made too much rice when i did the rice on thursday, but this actually worked out because i was able to use a lot of the extra ingredients i had to make fried rice.


I just chopped up ginger, garlic, scotch bonnet peppers, green onions, brocolli, bok choy and carrots. I sauteed them in the usual order, then added the rice and soy sauce. Once that was incorporated i cracked two eggs and scrambled them in the centre of the wok.

Fried Rice - so easy!

John Carpenter and Cod

Sometimes i remember why Thursday is my favorite day of the week. This was one of those nights, and one of those meals that capped a pretty long four day week at school. This was an evening dedicated to fish and John Carpenter - plus it worked with fish week!

I've made this fish dish before, but i did it with basa. I didn't see any fresh, but cod was on sale so i figured that would work too.

Here is the cod in corn starch and sake. The sauce is a simple soy sauce blend also with corn starch.

I also made eric my new favorite rapini dish, since i just can't get enough of it.

Rice, rapini, cod and wine. Sounds good to me.

A fishy week

I can't really explain it but lately i've been craving fish. You would think in this weather that i would want soup or some comfort food, but its been all about fish. I have been at school so much that i don't even want to post some of the things i have been eating - well actually i have, so finally i made a decent dinner. I went to the Metro by school and picked up some fresh fish.



They didn't have the greatest selection, and i think in the back of my head i was hoping that they had that maple salmon i got once (which they didn't) so i picked up some cajun catfish. I got two file ts so i could have some for lunch. I steamed some broccoli and bok choy adding a little veggie stock to the water for a little extra flavour.

Excuse the lazy photography - i was soooo hungry!

Lazy soba noodle dinner

To be honest, this meal got lost somewhere in the computer transfer - i can't really remember making it, but judging by the tomatoes, it must have been a while ago because i'm pretty sure they are from a farmer's market. Well it was labeled peanut soba noodles... so i'm guessing that's what it is.

Judging from the pics i used zucchini, eggplant, mushrooms, onions garlic for the veggies. I probably just sauteed them and made my blender lime peanut sauce. (partially i'm guessing this as i saw a lime in the last picture)

Sometimes i eat frozen things....

This is probably barely even worth a post, but its two meals, and i liked it so you're going to find out about my dirty love of Dr. Oetker's Frozen Ristorante Pizza. When it goes on sale at the No Frills for $3.99 i totally stock up. My favorites are the mushroom and the spinach one, but sometimes to shake it up i have the Mozzarella.

If i cook a whole one i will eat it all, so i finally figured out to cut them into a quarter when frozen and just make that bit. Problem solved.

While i was "making" this dinner i also chopped up some ingredients for lunch the next day - tomatoes, romaine, cucumbers and green onions that i was going to eat with cottage cheese.

Dinner

(i'm a grad student - gimme a break)