Okay so here are all my pent up food pictures from December 2010 to January 2011.
BF cooked most of the meals you will see below (he loves it, it’s his thing).
We make a great team because my thing is to sit there, look cute while he is cooking and eat with mucho gusto while making appreciative noises.
BF brought me back a little pastry with almond inside (from Montreal). I think he went to Au Pain Dore.
Then for our holiday meal, we started with foie gras with cracked pepper, fleur de sel topped on a baguette.
The main meal was a duck confit with garlic potatoes.
A treat for me was Coca-Cola in a glass bottle.
Out of the 6 we bought, I only got to drink 2. BF hogged the rest (he’s more of a soda pop fanatic than I am).
We made lobster pizza from scratch (everything, including the dough):
And my mom presented me her vegetarian cabbage rolls stuffed with rice and veggies. So yummy.
And she couldn’t help herself. She made me a bowl of ramen when she heard my belly growl.
I told her not to worry but she’s a mom. What can you do?
Of course, I had to load up on some Vietnamese pho.
And go to Chipotle for a burrito bowl or two. 😉
My mom found these in Chinatown and made me eat one.
And for another holiday meal with the family, BF made his Korean Short Ribs.
We saw oyster mushrooms on sale, so he bought some and made an omelette.
My parents left for a few days doing whatever they do, and BF spotted this bottle of wine on the table and asked if we could drink it.
I’ve seen that bottle there for 5 years (we’re not big drinkers), so I told him to crack it open and go crazy.
And I took a sip. I thought it tasted okay, but wine is not my thing. I don’t really like alcohol.
BF said it wasn’t bad for a cheap-ish red wine. Drank the whole bottle.
Then we decided to make another dish (look at me.. “We” when I really mean “He” :P)…
Moroccan-style Chicken with Carrots.
My dad proclaimed it to be delicious. He said he normally hated carrots but with this, he’d eat them.
Score for getting veggies into my dad.
BF busted out some biscotti for my parents afterwards with lemon zest.
And we had leftover lemons, so we made lemonade. Literally.
Very tasty.
Finished with a plate of chicken wings and fries the next day.
And made some bread with this breadmaker my mom has had for eons but never even opened to try.
I went to Aunties and Uncles, but wasn’t totally sold on the food there. I’ll give it another shot but……….. 🙂
Came back and my mom cracked open a 2 year old fruit cake. Seriously?
I hate fruit cake but like an obedient daughter, I ate a slice.
Way too sweet, too much fruit, I would have preferred the cake alone without any fruit.
Tried a little Kenzo ramen (I’m obsessed):
And ordered the Pork Tonkotsu while BF sat there and watched me eat (he doesn’t like ramen).
It was a bit too salty (duh, shouldn’t have taken the salt flavoured soup) but I liked it a lot. Really well done.
I could have gone for another bowl, but BF was getting antsy.
Headed over to Starbucks to try and DIY my own chai lattes:
And that’s pretty much all the special stuff we’ve been eating over the weeks.
We don’t eat like that everyday. Just for holidays/celebrations. Also, lately we’ve just been eating simple things like rice and veggies, fruit, drinking tea and water (*cough* Starbucks Green Tea Matcha Lattes *cough*) and for me, simple vegetarian noodles in miso soup.
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That cabbage roll looks awesome! So does the Tonkotsu pork soup. And the biscotti…and lemonade — ok, need to go feed my face now!
hahaha!!!
Do you have a rice cooker for all the rice dishes you show or do you just make rice in a pot or instant rice?
Always a rice cooker. I swear, it\’s the #1 thing we buy if we don\’t already own one.
PHO! mmmmm homemade biscotti! and Moroccan chicken!! Don't you just LOVE having a BF who cooks? Well done! So long as I heap on the praise and do the occasional dishes, my BF is also the cook in the relationship.
I am definitely appreciative and full of praise. BF does the dishes now because we have a dishwasher, but I unload and load it as needed, on occasion.
I made the choc. chip cookie recipe you left me. It's definitely in the running with the Momfuko recipe.
Really!? That\’s exciting!!
Hot messes are the tastiest!
I'm the same. Best just to let bf get on with cooking (plus we can barely both fit into the kitchen.)
He struggles with a lot of the cuisine I like…some of it he finds verrrrry plain, some of it far too fiery hot for his palate.
Same here. He can\’t imagine why I\’d just eat plain salmon with rice and some miso paste. He likes things with a LOT of flavour or he loads on the olive oil and salt… it\’s too much for me.
My son is an adventurous cook and makes things like that. I'm going to have to show him this post. WOW!
Please do! 🙂 I ought to post what he\’s made lately.
Why did i read this!? The only thing in my office desk is a dry orange. Can't wait to get home and eat now!
Why is your orange dry? Is it old?? 🙂 Sorry…
I'm glad it was lunch time when I read this *salivating*
I\’m glad it was too. I re-read it and got hungry.
I love Kenzo!! My friends and I call that "our happy place".
& you ordered my fav. dish: Pork Tonkotsu . But I do agree that its a tad bit salty.
my goal is to eat every ramen bowl on their menu. One down, 50 to go. 😛
Wow your BF can certainly cook! It's great, isn't it, when one of you loves to cook and the other one doesn't? Because then you get to taste their yummy efforts without all the work that went into it 😛 Of course, in our house the trade off is that I do ALL the cleaning up but I will take that over cooking any day of the week.
He does the cleaning up too. 🙂 I do the laundry, ironing and general cleaning which he hates.
You can find the Tazo Chai concentrate at Whole Foods or Target. Makes about 6 cups. Just use equal parts concentrate and milk. And I use Copco reusable latte cups.
I heard it isn\’t as strong as the syrup they use in stores
Not as strong true, but way better than most of the concentrates on the market. I generally use it in the morning when I know I'll have a long day. That way I can purchase the real deal at Starbucks later in the afternoon instead of buying two cups in one day.
That\’s a good point. Just get my fix in.
I love food and would eat pretty much everything here. 🙂
We need more Ramen places here in Portland. They all tend to be on the salty side though.
All ramen is salty. That\’s the key ingredient lol
I love Au pain dore! everytime we go to Montreal it's our breakfast stop of choice. It's awesome that you and your bf make such a great chef/gormand pair!
Like 2 peas in a pod. I love being fed and he loves feeding.
One of my goals this year is to master biscotti. I have my uncle's receipe, but it always seems to come out waaaaay too dense and doesn't get the right texture. I WILL PREVAIL!
(Also, I want one of those brown sugar fruits!)
You have to sift the flour.. I found it made a huge difference.
You can find them in Chinatown! They\’re expensive though.
I should not have read this while hungry. Now I have to clean all the drool off my keyboard. Is the BF's Korean short rib recipe a well-guarded culinary secret or perhaps one he's willing to share with inquiring (and hungry) minds?
And that lobster pizza looked good…my girlfriend made an unbelievable mexican pizza with shredded & seasoned chicken, fresh salsa, a cheese blend, sliced avocado, crushed tortilla chips and homemade avocado-chili-ranch sauce. YUM.
Lastly: guacamole love seconded. Fiercely.
It was in Food and Wine Magazine. Let me try and find it..
Shoot. I don\’t see it online. I\’ll try and repost it 🙂 With pictures maybe.
That mexican pizza sounds really good. What I love about pizza is you can throw anything on top of it. With guac, I could eat it just with some bread.
I think this is my favorite post by you. ever. FOOD!!! PS AWESOME COOKING SKILLS FB's BF!
DAMN! 🙂 All my other posts couldn\’t live up to some food pics? haha
I'm a picky eater; I think the only thing I would have eaten here is bread and coke. 🙂
those cookies look a lot like cauliflowers.. hehe. and here in la, we call those glass cokes, mexi-cokes!