3 Mountain Dew Flavours.

Snack today -> Ed's Apple Pie.
I got a slice of Ed's apple pie to sample.  It was pretty good.  It tasted alot like Steve's.  Ed told me afterwards, that it was because it was Steve's recipe!

Ed's Apple Pie.

Dinner today -> Roast Beef Leftovers
Re-heated some roast vegetables and leftover roast beef in the microwave.  I added a pack of instant rice too.

Roast Beef, Vegetables, and Rice.

Useless Food News:
These are the drinks we got from Watertown: 3 different Mountain Dew's.

Mountain Dew Pitch Black, Mango Heat, and Code Red.

Pitch Black tastes like black grape.  Not bad.
Mango Heat has a strong mango taste.  I don't like mango.  If I did, I would like it.
Code Red, usual cherry flavour.  Not sure why they stopped making the cans in Canada.  And I can only find the bottles at Dollar Stores.  They should have kept Code Red over Blue Voltage.

-Banner

Long Weekend Report -> Canadian Thanksgiving

Food this weekend ->
Gavin and his family were in town this weekend.  We went out for lunch at Sansotei Ramen.  It's similar to what I ate in Japan.  Very good ramen.
Ben got the Spicy Tan Tan:

Spicy Tan Tan Ramen.

Gavin got Tonkotsu Black:

Tonkotsu Black Ramen.

Emi got Tonkotsu with extra egg:

Tonkotsu Ramen.

I got the Miso Black:  The waitress said I could even eat the flower.  I ate 1 petal.  Didn't taste of anything and had the texture of boiled lettuce.

Miso Black Ramen.

We went hiking in the Gatineau Park on Sunday and then ate Pho.  That's when my phone battery died, so no pics of the food, but it wasn't anything special.  Afterwards we ate Strawberry Whip Cake (from Swiss Pastries) for Emi's Birthday.  She's pregant with a girl too.  Congratulations!

Strawberry Whip Cake.

I also made a nice roast beef this weekend with my 50% off meat.  It was cooked to medium rare, according to my thermometer, but I think it was abit over cooked to a medium.  I'm going to use the leftover bones to make a soup.

Roast Beef on Veggies.

Useless Gaming News:
We played 3-player Artic Scavengers.  It's a different type of decking building game than Dominion.  It's pretty good.  I would play it more.  We played Magic after that.

Artic Scavengers.

Useless Food News:
On Thanksgiving Monday: Susanna, Ben, and I went to Watertown for a US shopping trip.  We went to Salmon Run Mall, Walgreens, Home Depot, Walmart, and Target.  For lunch we went to Sonic's.  I got a cheesy bacon dog in a pretzel bun and foot long dog.  Got a tasty Strawberry Limeade for a drink.

Sonic Hotdogs.

Picked up these goodies at the end of the trip, plus some drinks I forgot to put in the pic.  (Gordon: No Brainstorm at Walgreens)

Watertown stuff.

Useless Wanted Stuff:
WANTED: Pie Face Showdown.  Canada better get this.  I didn't pick it up.

I Challenge Jeff to this Duel!

WANTED: Deep Fried Twinkies.  Would have got a box at Walmart, but we were 2 hrs away from home and they would have defrosted.  If Ogdensburg Walmart has it, I will pick it up.

Hated to Pass This Up.

Discount Roast

Dinner today -> Roast Beef.
I prepared a roast a couple days ago and dropped it off at my parent's house last night.  I then found another roast at Loblaws for $30, but it had a 50% off sticker on it.  So I bought it and prepared that one too.  Awesome deal.
My dad cooked both roast for dinner today.  It was good. 

2 Roasts over Vegetables.

The potatoes, organic carrots, onions, mushrooms (white cap and portobello; both were 50% off too) and garlic absorbed all the drippings.  I also brought some horse radish and some premium sweet mustard from France for dipping the meat.

Vegetable Side.

The larger roast was a nice medium rare to medium.  The smaller would probably be a medium-well.

Mmm... Bloody Roast Beef.

After dinner, Susanna and I went back to Loblaws and found 2 more roasts that were 50% off!  We bought those too for freezing.

Blue Lobster

Dinner today -> Fried Oysters.
I didn't know what to make for dinner tonight.  I just quick defrosted a bag of Korean oysters (running them under cold water), floured them, and fried them in olive oil and butter.  Served them on top of some instant chicken rice.

Fried Oysters on Rice.

Useless Pet News:
Went to Pet Smart tonight to look for some new plants for my fish tank.  Didn't find any I liked, but I did find some Blue Lobsters.  They look so cool!  They cost $23 each for these tiny little lobsters.

Small Blue Lobster.

Wild Card Gaming

Lunch today -> Meat Buns.
Had half a chinese sausage bun and a pork & nappa bun for lunch.  Buns from Montreal Chinatown are the best.

MTL Buns.

Useless Gaming News:
Impromptu gaming gathering at Jeff's place to play some board games while watching the Blue Jays Wild Card game.  We played Broom Service and King of Tokyo.  (BTW: Jays won.)

Broom Service.

Sweet Taro Milk Tea

Useless Food News:
I tried out this Sweet Taro Milk Tea box drink from T&T.  It's really good and I like it.  It's got a nice taro taste, but I found it has a sweet aftertaste that sticks around for awhile after you're done drinking it.

Sweet Taro Milk Tea.

Weekend Report: Eulogy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEN!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE CHIN!!!

Food this weekend ->
I thought I had a big meeting with one of my projects on Friday afternoon with the whole team.  So I bought a box of donuts for the team.

Mmm... Donuts.

Turned out it was just me and the manager.  We ate a couple each and then after the meeting I brought the leftovers to the team in the lab.

Potluck at Jeff & Linda's on Saturday.  I made Monkey Bread.  I replaced the walnuts with chopped apple and strawberrys.  I baked it fresh and brought it over to Jeff's in under 10mins and flipped it out of the mold.  It was deadly sweet and good.

Monkey Bread.

Ben made fish, Cindy made wontons, Jeff made steak, and Linda made everything else.

Potluck.

Went to Montreal on Sunday for my uncle's birthday.  We ate lots of food for a late lunch and then cake.  The right cake was a caramel carrot cake.  The left cake was supposed to be a pineapple white cake.  Turned out, its also a carrot cake!  A pineapple carrot cake.

Double Carrot Cakes.

Afterwards, we went to Chinatown for a big dinner.

Fish Maw Soup.

Shrimp and Snow Peas.

Fried Shrimp and Pork with Mayo.

"Running" Chicken.

Fried Rice with Fish Eggs.

Huge Lobsters.

Beef.

Over-cooked Sweet Fish.

Coconut Taro Tapioca.

Sweet Buns.

Useless Gaming News:
After potluck on Saturday we played some boardgames.  We played Machi Koro.  I finally won a game.  Cindy won the second game.  We shutout Everett who usually wins this game.

Machi Koro.

We also played some Code Names: Pictures, Walk the Plank, and Telestrations.  Telestrations was hilarious.  Linda (light blue ink), Cindy (pink), me (purple), Ben (green), Jeff (orange).

Correct Answer:

Beaver pictures:

Freaky Beaver.

Pig-Beaver?