A Night out and Sushi for Lunch

 Cass and I got tickets from my Dad to go see this play at the newly renovated LSPU hall downtown. It was pretty good, about a professor trying to cope with his past by ignoring it and then having it catch up with him and forcing him to make amends or at least confront what happened.

I got stressed out thinking we were going to be late because I wanted to be there half an hour early. Turned out we had plenty of time getting their 10 min before curtain.

The next day I wrote my english Essay on the imagery in Bessie Head's short story "American Woman" for English. Since that is not exciting enough though Cass and I had to try and make sushi. We wanted to make summer rolls but we couldn't find any rice paper. Dominion had to be sold out so we got Nori from the Bulk Barn.

My brother got us a sushi set when we were in Toronto. The big dishes are for soy sauce and the little ones for wasabi (which we decided to pass on). Watching a few demos on youtube I toasted the Nori or dried seaweed paper in a frying pan and made short grain 'Sushi' rice.  We cut up some vegetables (avacado, bean sprouts, cucumber, carrots) and I rolled it all together.

Cassandra then cut the rolls into fairly small bite size pieces. We made 3 rolls and got 26 pieces, some a little skinny but we wanted testers.

They tasted pretty good, especially with soy sauce. I think they were missing something though, not sure what. We had a few left overs so I'll take 'em for lunch tomorrow.

T

Thanksgiving

Wonderful. Cass and I had a great time going to two turkey dinners, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. On Saturday we had a potluck with other grad students, Cass made a couple amazing pumpkin pies and a stupendous apple pie. I made some delicious cranberry sauce.

Cassandra's family ordered us a lovely bouquet.

The apple pie ready for the oven. The crust almost didn't cover the top.

A baked and un-baked pumpkin pie with two containers of my homemade cranberry sauce.

Delicious.  

On Sunday we went to my friends house where she prepared the whole turkey meal. She did a great job. She made a great big 16 lbs turkey with all the trimmings and made an awesome stuffing with wild rice and cranberries. To devour the turkey as well as the apple and pecan pies she invited a gathering of 8 CFAs or Come From Aways, we had a great time.

Now that I have spent the whole weekend stuffing myself and procrastinating from work I better study for my Business mid-term on Friday and write my essay for English. I hope everyone at home had a great weekend, I get jealous of the weather every time I look at the forecast.

T

Sick This Weekend

I've been sick this weekend. So I've been staying in a relaxed position drinking tea most of the day. So the camera hasn't been out much, neither have I for that matter. So all you get this week is something that made me laugh a little at home.

Cassandra headed to the weekly pot-luck today while I stayed back to bless kleenex. She decided to prepare spiced lentils for the night. Which I might add are quite tasty. Green lentils, cloves, cinnamon and orange juice. While she was preparing said dish she decided to get her book, which lead to this multitasking marvel.

I usually don't think of reading and cooking at the same time. Especially when it involves tasting the food and looking at the cookbook. Cassandra has a talent I guess.

T