Adonis Greek Restaurant

Since I was doing a Daniel Fast last month,I couldn't eat any meat but elected to eat seafood when I go out with friends. I'm not sure what category snails fall under but that's what I ordered, along with prawns, at Adonis. Why did I do it? To cross an item off my Bucket List. They did not taste like chicken but weren't bad at all.

Happy New Year 2012!

Kathy won a free New Years Eve dinner at Maenam, a great Thai restaurant on West 4th Ave, and invited me to go along with her (thanks Kathy!). I wish I could remember the names of all the dishes. Everything tasted incredble anyway. Happy 2012!

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hot and sour soup of halibut

dark chocolate pot de crème

Potter's House Korean Barbecue

That's it, I'm going to reduce the number of times I eat out. I have been eating out way too much recently and haven't even tried out any new recipes for a while! Anyway, I couldn't pass on the chance to see my godson, Elijah, and to learn some German from him! Plus, I love Korean food, especially their barbecue.

Everything was great; barbecued beef, pork, japchae, pajang, seaweed, tofu soup......I have to say, that was the best pajang I've ever had!

Water Street Cafe - Gastown

A long overdue reunion with Sheila, Farrah and I! What a fun day! We went to a great restaurant in Gastown and felt like tourists for the rest of the day. Farrah and I had a grilled panini with goat cheese and portobello mushrooms and Sheila had the linguine chicken with pesto.

Aww!

What an angel!

"Mamas" and baby

Sheila and I

Chicken Linguine

Panini

Whistler 2011

Thank you Farrah for the invitation to your father's "cottage" in Whistler! The word cottage is an understatement! This has got to be one of the most beautiful mansions I've ever seen! The garden was absolutely gorgeous too!

We couldn't have asked for better weather. It was cold but the sky was blue and the sun was out.

I actually hadn't been to Whistler since 2002 so The Village had changed quite a bit. It was pretty cool to see all the sites the 2010 Winter Olympics were held at. Coincidentally, Leia wasn't even born yet at that time but she sure did keep us on our toes that weekend!

Poor baby was scared to walk over the metal grating!

We ate at a nice Indian restauran for lunch. The man asked us how spicy we wanted our chicken koorma, from 1 to 5. We asked for a 4, which he assured us was very spicy. No sir, it was not! Anyway, it was delicious.

It was definitely nice to be out of the city for a couple of days.

Salt Tasting Room

I've been craving a grilled cheese sandwich for ages! My friend, Deb, inroduced me to SALT Tasting Room in Gastown a few years ago and I've been a couple of times since. Everytime I go there I feel this sense of apprehension seeing as this restaurant is in the ominously-named Blood Alley in a dodgy part of Gastown. It's quite difficult to get to and it's imperaive to hold your breath so you don't breathe in the urine stench but as soon as you get into the restaurant, it's a totally different atmosphere.

The grilled cheese sandwich, buttersquash soup and arugula salad did not disappoint Farrah, "Baba" and I. The foie gras was just okay.

Makoto Japanese Restaurant

My friend, Kelvin, is one of the fussiest people I know, food-wise. So when Kelvin says a restaurant is good, it most definitely is!

The restaurant actually turned out to be really close to my old house. It is very small and there was only one harried- looking man behind the counter. The food was sensational!

Tuna Tataki

Scallop Rolls and Salmon Mango Rolls

Happy Birthday To Me!

Another September, another birthday! The older I get the more I realize I need to value the people in my life, thank God for my blessings and celebrate me!

My younger sister is also a September baby so my family decided to take us out to Banana Leaf to celebrate. We had the most delicious Malaysian food!

Mango Drink

Papaya Salad

Chicken Satay

Tofu

Shrimp

The beef that got me eating beef again!

Fish

Chicken Curry

Fried Banana

Kathy surprised me with a really cute card and a delicious cupcake:)

I went to my favourite fancy tea place, Urban Tea, with Leia, Farrah and Ravi for some sweet goodness.

This girl!

The words on that gift card describe me perfectly! Just replace the word "wine" with tea and we're all set! Here's to an awesome year!