Saturday May 3 2014 is Free Comic Book Day

Dinner today - Rib Fingers, Potatoes, and Garlic Rosemary Focaccia.
Picked up Jamie Oliver's Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia bread at Sobey's.  Today was the last day of the sale price of $3.99.  It tastes pretty good and I like the big chunks of garlic cloves.

Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia.

I also roasted some rib fingers that I had been marinating for 3 days in Korea BBQ sauce.  I roasted them over some mini red potatoes.  The potatoes elevated the meat so that the meat didn't boil in the juices, but the potatoes themselves did.

Rib Fingers.

Rib fingers were abit chewy, but I like my meat that way.

Dinner.

Useless Comic News:
Reminder that this Saturday May 3 is Free Comic Book Day!  I've got the issues I want pulled aside for me by the Comic Book Shoppe guys, so I don't have to go to Merivale on the weekend :)

Useless Hockey News:
I can't believe San Jose Sharks blew the 3-0 series lead over the LA Kings, and lost the series yesterday.  Heads will roll.
But tonight Montreal beat Boston 4 to 3 in double Overtime, in Game 1!  Whoo Hoo!!!

Useless Hockey Pool News:
Reminder to all managers in the Robot Hockey Hockey Pool: the 2013-2014 Robot Hockey Awards Ceremony and Lunch is this Friday at Rideau Restaurant.

Mr.Shawarma

Dinner today -> Mr.Shawarma Super Family Special.
Ordered the Super Family Special from Mr.Shawarma for dinner and took it to my parent's place.

Family Special Shawarma.

Ben already had plans for dinner, so the four of us tried to destroy it, but couldn't.  I was only able to eat 4 wraps full.

Good stuff, but this time I found the chicken really dry.

Useless Idol Info:
I got the Type B and Type C of the Not Yet "Already" album from HMV Japan.  Included Sasshi bonus photos.

Not Yet "Already" Album, Type B and C.

Not Yet Play Button

Dinner today -> Roast Pork and Wings.
CMC Strikefighters softball practice was cancelled today.  Since I was already halfway to T&T, I went there and picked up some groceries (forgot to look for your shrimp chips, Ed) and some cooked food for dinner.  I got some Roast Pork (with lots of crispy skin) and some wings.

Roast Pork and Wings.

Useless Gaming News:
Got my KickStarted Elemental Blast game in the mail.  It's a quick and simple card game.  Got to sleeve the cards and try it out.

Elemental Blast.

Useless Idol News:
Got my Not Yet type A album "Already" today in the mail, with a couple bonus photos.  I also got the special type D Play Button version. 

Not Yet "Already" Album.

The play button is an actual pinable button that plays the album, like a mini iPod.  It's a pretty cool and unique item.

Not Yet Play Button.

Cherry Focaccia

Dinner today -> Pita
Made some pitas filled with BBQ steak, lettuce, onions, mayo, and garlic sauce.  The steak was abit chewy so it didn't work well inside the pita, so I should have sliced it into small pieces.  BTW: Pitas are on sale at Sobey's for $1 a bag.

Useless Food News:
I also picked up a "Sweet Cherry Focaccia" bread from Sobey's.  It's pretty good.  Similar to a bearclaw donut, but not as sweet.  It was also on sale for $3.99 ($3 off). 

There was also a "garlic rosemary" version with huge chunks of garlic cloves, I may want to try while the sale is still on.

Weekend Report: Soup

Food this weekend ->
I had some lettuce and steak in the fridge and I didn't know what to do with it.  I decided to make a soup with it, along with some shitake mushrooms and egg.

It turned out very tasty.

Lettuce, Steak, Mushrooms, and Egg Soup.

I got a rack of BBQ Texas Ribs from The Butchery.  It wasn't on sale, but I wanted beef ribs.  I slice up the ribs and roasted them in the oven uncovered, then covered.  I added Sensations "No Limits" BBQ sauce from Sobey's on them too.  This sauce is really good on ribs, or meat in general.

Roasted Ribs.

Useless Idol Info:
Didn't do much this weekend.  I was at work alot of the time.  In a small window in the background re-watch a bunch of AKB48 concerts while reviewing stuff for Montreal.  I re-watched Kasai's graduation concert, and both days of the 2011 Aki Matsuri Concert. 
2011 "Candy" (Kasai, Yuka, Yukirin version)

CrossKix Shoes

Got a package in the mail today with a pair of my KickStarted CrossKix shoes.  They are like Krocs mixed with a running shoe.  Pretty comfortable.  I got the Black Gold and Greystone.  I should have gotten a different colour if I had known the highlighting on the Greystone was not as light as in the pic in the KickStarter site.

CrossKix Shoes.

Useless Food News:
Ed told me that PoutineFest started today.  Ben and I went last year and wasn't impressed.  It was expensive for little return.  This year has 17 vendors, but I don't think I can be troubled to go on the weekend.  I'd rather go try out Flapjack's Pancake Shack that Bobby Ryan recommended on twitter.  Besides, the poutine place "Spuds" in Barrhaven is pretty good and you get alot for the price.

Dinner today -> Steak and Fries.
Speaking of fries, I decided to roast some quick cooking fries with a side of steak for dinner.

Steak and Fries.

Convection roasted at 450F for 5 mins, flipped the steak, and 5 more minutes.  Steak came out medium.  Next time I'll take it out 2 minutes earlier for a more rare steak.

Steak and Fries.

Useless Idol News:
Got a heavy package of mostly Idol books in the mail today too.  In the package was AKB49 manga, Matsui Rena photobook, AKB48 in Hawaii photobook, AKB48 2013 Kouhaku DVD, and Kasai Tomomi Photobook!

Idol Stuff.

This fan has some sample Kasai scans from the photobook on his site.

Lots of Cards in the Mail

Useless Gaming News:
Got a huge box in the mail today, but inside it was mostly filled with crumpled brown paper.  At the bottom were a bunch of packs of gaming cards.  Don't know why they used such a large box.
I didn't realized the KickStarter "Village in a Box" shipped and I just got 8 new card games.  Other than "Village in a Box", I also want to play "Noueni", "Trade Fleet", and "Monster City Planners".  It was cheaper to buy all the games in a bundle than picking and choosing individual games.

KickStarter Games.

Useless Idol News:
I finally got my HKT48 card set in the mail.  I won it off eBay and it took quite awhile to arrive.  But now I've got a complete set and don't need to buy any more boxes (and the fact that they are sold out everywhere too).  Still like to track down a Motomura Aoi or Okada Kanna autograph.

HKT48 Set.

I don't know what I'm going to do with this redeemable insert for an HKT48 Event.

HKT48 Event Card.