Uncle Tetsu's Cheesecake

Lunch today -> Instant Dry Ramen
Made some Japanese instant dry ramen with squid today.  It's like instant ramen, but you drain the water and then mix in the sauce.  Pretty good for a quick lunch.

Instant Dry Squid Ramen.

Snack today -> Cake.
Brought the leftover Black Forest cake and Frutti Di Bosco cake to work.  Had a slice of each for a snack.  The others destroyed the rest.

Cake for Snack.

Useless Food News:
Speaking of cake, Uncle Tetsu's Cheesecake shop has a branch store in Toronto.  I'd like to give the Japanese cheesecake a try sometime.
*cough*hint,hint*cough*Gavin*cough*cough* ;)

Weekend Report: Non Stop Eating

Food this weekend ->
Got Franks on Friday for lunch.  So much meat :)  I ate half and was satisfied.  Saved the other half for dinner.

Relatives were visiting on Saturday.  We started with a late lunch at the Chinese Buffet on Merivale.  Too bad 2 tour buses showed up right when we started to get food.  They wiped out most of the dishes!  My 1st plate was light.

Buffet Plate #1

I used most of it to put together my congee bowl.

Congee Bowl

Tried to time my food runs between big crowds, but I ended up eating alot of fried wings and BBQ chicken feet.  I wanted to make another congee bowl, but the soup pot was emptied!

Plate #2

Afterwards we went to my parent's place for dessert. 

1st Dessert.

Dino made cookies with cornflakes.  They are really good.  I need the recipe.

Cornflake Cookie.

Then we went to Henry's place for BBQ dinner.  There was so much good food: (from the top) corn, shrimp/scallop/beef tendon mix, sausages, soy sauce wings finished with Camp41 BBQ sauce, rib steak, salmon, salmon #2, rib steak #2, shirmp/scallop/beef tendon mix #2, wings #2, mango/sweet pepper salad. 

Meaty BBQ.

As you can see, lots of good meat dishes, but most of us were kind of full from lunch still.  I couldn't pack down as much as I wanted to too.  My eyes were hungry, but my stomach wasn't.

Then killed some watching women's FIFA and playing King of Tokyo.  Ben won 4 games in a row.

King of Tokyo.

Finally dessert: fruits, cookies, Black Forest Cake, and Frutti Bosco Cake (from MTL).  The Frutti Bosco cake was really good.

Final Dessert.

I fell asleep early around 1am because I was tired from being so full.  I didn't eat again until Sunday 4pm, also when I finally got out of bed :)

Happy Birthday Charin!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARIN!!!

Science Guy

Useless Gaming News:
Played some fun rounds of Saboteur 2 at lunchtime today.  7 players.  The final round, everyone was suspecting some players were saboteurs by their suspicious actions, and started breaking each others equipment.  In the end no one was a saboteur.  LOL

Useless TV News:
Lori gave me all 5 seasons of Bill Nye, the Science Guy :)  This show is great!

Bill Nye, the Science Guy.

Useless Movie News:
"Attack on Titan" live action Japanese trailer is out.  I didn't like the anime very much (way too much talking during a battle), but the movie looks interesting.  It's released soon, and part 2 will follow shortly in theatres too.

Strawberry Parfait

Lunch today -> Fish and Chips.
Food Truck Wednesday in Kanata.  The Glen, a Pizza truck, and Mr.Sundae were here today.  I ordered fish and chips again this week. 

Fish and Chips.

Snack today -> Strawberry Parfait.
The Mr.Sundae truck came to CMC at 2pm.  We all got free ice cream :)  I ordered the strawberry parfait with chocolate and vanilla soft-serve ice cream and topped with peanuts.  It was tasty and hit the spot.

Strawberry Parfait.

Re-Injured

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIE!!!

NGT48's Kitahara Rie's 24th Birtdhay.

Breakfast today -> Pork Rinds.
Picked up 50% off Pork Rinds from Bulk Barn.  It's from British Colombia.  They are pretty good.  Nice small bite size pieces.

Crunchy Pork Rinds.

Lunch today -> Canadian Pizza.
Made a trip to Out of the Box Cards for some deck boxes at lunch time.  Then picked up a Canadian Pizza from Little Caesars.  The toppings were well spread out this time.

Canadian Pizza.

Dinner today -> Salad.
Had a late dinner today.  Made Caesar salad with bacon, leftover slices of steak, 1 chicken thigh, 1 hard boil egg, and some crispy onion bits.

Loaded Salad.

Useless Food News:
Reminder: An Ice Cream Truck will be beside CMC at 2pm on Wednesday :)

Useless Softball News:
Strike Fighters played a double-header tonight vs GDC.  We lost the 1st game 17-9.  We lost the 2nd game 11-1.  They had Gary's pitching figured out.  By the time we switched to Mark, it was too late.

Strike Fighters on Defence.

I hit 1-for-2 with a single in the 1st game, but I re-injured my leg in the same spot as from the tournament last week.  Couldn't play after that.

Happy Birthday James!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES!!!

Telestrations

Useless Gaming News:
Gordon got me for my birthday, Telestrations game.  It's a drawing and guessing game mixed with Telephone.  Should be fun.

Telestrations.

Useless Tranformers News:
Picked up my copy of Transformers: Combiner Wars - MotorMaster from Gordon on Saturday.  Basically a Optimus Prime repaint with some molding changes.  Robot mode is really cool, especially the head.  Looks just like G1 MotorMaster.  The sword and gun combine into a bigger sword.  Nice details on it too.  But once in vehicle mode, there is nowhere to store the sword.  The holes in the back of the cab are slotted so only the gun will fit in them.

MotorMaster.

Weekend Report: Happy Father's Day!!!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

Stannis... lol

Happy Father's Day.

Food this weekend ->
BBQ at home for Father's Day.  Susanna prepared chicken thighs, eggplant, zuchinni, and 3 versions of steak (salt & pepper, rosemary, and BBQ sauce).  I made ribs and brought Caesar salad. 
Ben made topokki and brought red velvet cake from Sobeys.

BBQ Feast.

The red velvet cake was extremely good.

Red Velvet Cake.

On Friday, Ed, Steve, Peter, and I went to Burger Builder by Home Depot in Kanata for lunch.  We got there early and before the long line-up. 

Burger Builder.

I got the 1x4oz patty on a grill cheese bun and topped with "build to code" toppings.  (That's 2 grill cheese sandwiches with a burger in the middle.)

Grill Cheese Bun.

It was too big for my mouth and I had to squish it down.  I also got fries, but the fries were a super disappointment.  I would dare say that the toppings for the fries (kosher salt, vinegar, fish malt vinegar, and ketchup) were better than the fries themselves.  Just go to Costco or Glens (by Canadian Tire) for fries.

1/2 way through.

Steve's 2x4oz burger with a builder bun and "build to code".

Steve's Burger.

Peter's 2x4oz burger with select toppings.

Peter's Burger.

FYI: get the Awesome sauce.  It's good.

Useless Gaming  News:
5 Player gaming at Brian's Saturday night.  We did 2 scenarios from Star Wars: Imperial Assault.  The games took way too long and Gordon left around 1:30am and Paul quit at 2am.  If Ben and Brian listened to me and played to the objective of the mission, we would have been finished before 1am.  1 more scenario and we will finally be done with the game.  Our group does not play well as an RPG group.

2nd Scenario: Destroy AT-ST.

30mins later... we didn't move much.

Lime Cucumber Gatorade

Breakfast today -> Pineapple.
Sliced up a fresh pineapple from Costco last night and brought it in to work to eat for breakfast.  I cut it into large wedges.  The pineapple was really juicy and sweet.  I'm thinking of getting another one.

Sweet Pineapple.

Useless Food News:
I got a exclusive Lime Cucumber Gatorade from a fellow foodie.  I think they are exclusive to the lower United States?  Chilling it tonight and trying it tomorrow.

Lime Cucumber Gatorade.

Useless Gaming News:
Played 2 rounds of Fluxx and 1 round Coup for gaming lunch today.  James won every game today!

Shredded Pork

Lunch today -> The Glen.
Only 2 food trucks today at the Hub: The Glen and Urban Cowboy.  I went with The Glen.  I ordered the fish and chips for $9.  Good portion and satisfying, but I thought it came with coleslaw last time?

Dinner today -> Shredded Pork.
Cooked a couple pork tenderloins today.

Pork Tenderloin.

I decided to shred the meat and try and turn it into a pulled pork.

Before Shredding.

It shredded fairly easily, and I mixed it with No Limits BBQ sauce.

After Shredding.

I made a sandwich with some buttered toast and topped the meat with abit of Ceasar dressing and sriracha sauce.  It was OK, but the meat was too lean.  I might make some gravy (or get some KFC gravy) tomorrow and mix it in to make it more juicy :)

On Toast.

Useless Food News:
Ribfest starts today downtown on Sparks Street.

More Useless Food News:
McLobster is back today at McDonalds.  Here til June 30.

McLobster.

Gantz

Useless Anime News:
2nd day of my vacation.  Got up at 10:30am and finished watching the anime Gantz.  The storyline is really good, but there is way to much talking; especially during the combat scenes with the aliens.  The episodes seem to drag out too long and I watch some of them in 3x speed. 

Gantz Anime Set.

BTW1: the ending totally sucks too.
BTW2: the live action version is better.

Useless Transformers News:
Went looking for new Protectobots in Kanata.  None found today.  Picked up Thundercracker.

Thundercracker.

Metal Earth Transformers

Took a vacation day today.  I planned on doing stuff for the house but I'm having trouble going down stairs and getting up off the floor.  So I went shopping instead :)  I didn't find any new Protectobots anywhere in Barrhaven or Merivale.  Might try Kanata places again on Tues.

Dinner today -> Beef Ribs.
Got some beef ribs at SuperStore and cooked them for 10 mins in my pressure cooker.  Finished them in the oven.

Beef Ribs.

Might have cooked them abit too long in the pressure cooker as the meat shrank alot.  Maybe 5 mins next time.  Ate them with some leftover corn.

Dinner.

Useless Toy News:
For my birthday, Susanna got me a cup and a gift card for Toys R Us.  Ben got me a set of Metal Earth Transformers.  These are pre-cut sheets of metal to build a Transformer model.  They're really cool.

BDay Gifts.

Weekend Report: Strike Fighters Tournament Champs!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FONGPAY!!!

Yep.  My birthday on Sunday.  Went to Rideau Restaurant with the family.  We ordered 9 dishes + fish maw soup.  (Fish dish not shown.)

Rideau Birthday Dinner.

Then we ate cake.  Black Forest cake from Loblaws.  I prefer the basic version.  The fancy versions from bakerys are not as good.  They taste like they "try too hard", but aren't that good.  They just look good.

Birthday Cake.

Useless Softball News:
The CMC Strike Fighter's softball team won the Tier D consolation bracket tournament this Saturday.  We "two-peated" as champs.  Friday's game got rained out, which meant we had to play 5 games in 1 day to win it.  I got up at 6am to play our 1st game at 8am.  We finished at 10pm. 
Game #1: 8am game vs FP Edge.  We barely lost the game 8-6.  But history shows that we always lose our Sat AM game.  Just means we like taking the more difficult route to win :).  I hit 2-for-3 with a double and a single.
Quick breakfast/snack at Quitters coffee shop.  Really nice place in Stittsville.  There is even hardwood on the ceiling!  I got a lemonade and a croissant.

Breakfast.

Game #2: 11am game vs Rockwell Collins.  We had just played them on Monday night, but they had a new pitcher.  It was a pitchers duel.  Mark our pitcher was getting alot of strikeouts as was their pitcher, but our defence was better.  We beat them 11-2.  I hit 1-for-3, with a double.  I also stuckout once too.  Denise struck out 3 times!
We went to Main St. Pub for a lunch.  I had ordered cold nachos and salsa, but I didn't know that they were going to give us complimentary hot nachos with cheese, meat sauce, and salsa.  My order sucked compared to what they gave us.

Stefano's hand...

Game #3: 2pm game vs Da Knobs.  We easily lost to them 19-6 (maybe more as we weren't keeping track after 4 innings).  They are just a team built to hit home runs.  I hit 1-for-1, with a single before getting hurt.  I pulled something in my calf going to 2nd on the next batter.  I then hurt it more running home on the play after that.  I was finished.  I could walk abit, but couldn't squat to catch, or push off to run.  I found out later that I can't go down stairs either.  Almost fell down on the 1st step down.

Game #4: 5pm game vs Saved by the Balls.  Close back and forth match the whole game and we had to play 2 extra innings before we finally won 13-12.  It helped that we called up Andrew to spare on our team.  He was fresh and his defence in the outfield helped alot.

Mark Pitching.

Denise Batting.

Game #5: 8:30pm game vs BeerFeasters.  The final game started off close but we pulled away with 2 big innings and won 17-9.  Great game by our team even though we were really tired to play our 5th game of the day. 
I went to the LCBO before the finals and got a couple bottles of strawberry champagne, incase we needed it; and we did :)  The champagne was really good and sweet.

Celebration Champagne Empties.