Dinner

Pork belly with roasted vegetables and brown rice...fatty but yum!

Dinner

Yum

Last Night's Dinner...

I ate a bowl of Special K. And then jog/walked for 40 minutes while watching Louie.

And what did I have for breakfast? Another bowl of Special K and some coffee. And a slice of pound cake.

This is my life. I'm not even dieting.

There's some things I love about England...

Food is not one of them...especially Japanese food. Had sushi but wanted to document the hilarity that is canned tuna and sweetcorn sushi...you can probably see the two in the corner. FAIL. The okonomiyaki, on the other hand, was delicious! Win some and lose some!

I see light!! (or sun really)

Date night on a sunny evening with flatmate...balcony dinning in Manchester!

However amazing the food looks, cannot claim credit for the cooking...that was a product of my dear flatmate!

Prosciutto and melon, Seasoned vegetable cous cous with sweet chili salmon

I actually like vanilla

Armagnac spiked vanilla ice cream is amaaaaaazing

My breakfast

My lunch

Italian sammich from Earl of Sandwich

My breakfast

A lovely savory roll with tomatoes and onions and goat cheese

App testing

I downloaded the app! Time to see if this works.

Fruity things I've done this summer. I am OBSESSED with the watermelon/basil/feta cheese salad on top. Ate that multiple times in this a sticky hot mess that is Boston.

Procrastinating with Hash

I was working on a presentation the entire afternoon and so I decided it was breaktime. So I made hash! (the potato kind... still working out the kinks on the other one) No real recipe but I sort of based it off this with a zillion substitutions. And then I made STEAK! Seasoned with grill seasoning from St. John! (Let's go back there!) And corn on the cob but I ate it before I remembered to take a pic. This should last me till thursday. Theoretically. I'm drinking white wine as I tap this out :)

Btw Louisa I miss your dad's BBQ

My dessert

I just submitted three job apps, so I deserve a reward.

My dinner

Staying late, so I went all out and got not one, not two, but TWELVE pieces of sushi. Holla. Expensing this.

Nothing says American hospitality like cookies

Ok...so in a constant effort of getting everyone to like me I decided to bake and bring the fruits of my labor to work. Cookies are always easy and an instant crowd pleaser but having done normal chocolate chip ones last time, I decided I needed a bit of variety in my life. Without any hesitation, my mind raced back to those oh-so-divine oatmeal chocolate chip cookies Mishi made a year ago. How do I remember them after all this time? They were that good. So several hours later (my oven could only bake 6 at a time) I filled my tub with 36 delectable goodies surely to win me praise and a possibly a bonus at my year end review. My colleagues left no prisoners.

These were the ones I saved myself...I say I bake for others but I've had over half a dozen...

My lunch

I have found Mac and Cheese... And what's more, it's TRUFFLED Mac and Cheese.

I have to work and eat today but my life is good right now.

My breakfast

I got this specifically for this post. I went in the cafe and was hoping to score this delicious savory tomato roll I had yesterday but they didn't have any. So I plucked up my courage and asked straight up: "I see bacon. Do you make a sandwich with that?" The cashier, to her credit, did not blink and just asked if what bread I wanted.

Making a Note Here...HUGE SUCCESS

Alice is a forceful dictator. That's all I can say about her and her totalitarian regime to force her chubby ol friend to post pictures of food. As said chubby friend is trying to lose weight so she wouldn't have to change her name to Bessie because she's a heifer.

So here is said friend, looking through photos of food that she's made in the past, as looking for food p o r n (I don't want the wrong kind of hits) online seems impossibly more depressing to her.

Thus, here's a photo of cake, that I made:

I will give you brownie points if you can tell me where this is a reference from. The title of my post is also a reference to this lovely snippet of popular geek culture.

There. Cake. I made it. It was a triumph. Here's the official recipe, which I didn't use because I didn't have many of these on hand and neither did the store:

1 18.25 ounce package chocolate cake mix.
1 can prepared coconut pecan frosting.
3/4 cup vegetable oil.
4 large eggs.
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.
3/4 cups butter or margarine.
1&2/3 cups granulated sugar.
2 cups all purpose flour.
Don't forget garnishes such as:
Fish shaped crackers.
Fish shaped candies.
Fish shaped solid waste,
Fish shaped dirt.
Fish shaped ethyl benzene.
Pull and peel licorice..
Fish shaped volatile organic compounds
and sediment shaped sediment.
Candy coated peanut butter pieces, Shaped like fish.
1 cup lemon juice.
Alpha resins.
Unsaturated polyester resin.
Fiberglass surface resins.
And volatile malted milk impoundments.
9 large egg yolks.
12 medium geosynthetic membranes.
1 cup granulated sugar.
An entry called 'how to kill someone with your bare hands'.
2 cups rhubarb, sliced.
2/3 cups granulated rhubarb.
1 tablespoon all-purpose rhubarb.
1 teaspoon grated orange rhubarb.
3 tablespoons rhubarb, on fire.
1 large rhubarb.
1 cross borehole electro-magnetic imaging rhubarb.
2 tablespoons rhubarb juice.
Adjustable aluminum head positioner.
Slaughter electric needle injector.
Cordless electric needle injector.
Injector needle driver.
Injector needle gun.
Cranial caps.
And it contains proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and odor
control chemicals. That will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue.

I think that's enough clues for where this is from.

And if anyone calls this cake a lie I will punch them.

Toasted Garlic. Not Burnt.

I finished studying one lecture for my final tomorrow and decided it was time for dinner break #2 of the night! Bruschetta always reminds me of Jess. And how she burned the garlic in back in SD. But I have to thank that hilarious episode for this tasty garlic infusion in the olive oil. I just keep a close eye on it while it's merrily crisping in the pan. 

 Voila!

Warning: Toasted baguettes are not for the faint of teeth.

And yes, I'm doing this instead of continuing my studies like a good little star student. Share your tasty times!