Mother superior jumped the gun

Four — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:08:25 +0000

beach adventure!!

So Jori was working in the morning and I brought him sushi left overs to eat after he got off of work. We went down the the beach, skipped some rocks, got ice cream, shopped at thrift stores and for apartment stuff. I bought these awesome plates shown below. We walked all the way back home carrying all of our purchases and made spaghetti with garlic bread and veggies.

As always, I’ve been producing some artwork! Including some lino cut stamps that I’m doing a series of. I’m also about to finish my Supers drawing (which has taken me too much time to do), you can see Jori’s here and Alex’s here. There’ll be more weekly sketches up. I’m going to buy a scanner soon (exciting!) for school, so there won’t just be food pictures up here. Horrah

Four — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:01:02 +0000

I found a TV in our hallway that had a VCR attached to it so I took it in, since we lacked a TV at my place. It also came with a stack of VHS which included E.T. So we watched it and ate some sushi on the ground. Below is a typical Taryn meal, soup and guacamole. The soup is kind of bare because we left all the soup veggies at Jori’s place so we had to resort to corn, white mushrooms and chives. I also make guacamole way too much. I’m going to get fat off of avocados because I eat more than I should. Under it is a photo of my cool candle in candle holder, which I use every night and a picture of my room. And the last picture is of some kick ass pizza that we made. It had chicken, mushrooms, tomato, pineapple, green pepper and garlic on it. yummmm!

Four — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:47:57 +0000

Here are some things we eat for breakfast. Above and below are photos of eggs with parmesan, mozzarella, basil, chives and tomato. It was one of my favourites. Under it is another breakfast where we had back bacon with mushrooms, eggs and toast. At the bottom are some Star Trek waffles. Chekov has spots.

Four — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:17:45 +0000

We went swimming in Lake Ontario! Here’s pictures of Jess and I in the lake. It was right by a sign that told us to swim with caution. It was so cold! I was always told never to swim in Lake Ontario when I was younger so it was a tad scary.

Four — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:53:30 +0000

I’ve been so busy! I have so much stuff to upload! Hang tight friends and stalkers.

Four — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:36:59 +0000

We’re trying to think up themes:

Taryn: Androgynous people.

Jori: (frown) I hate androgynous people… and androgynous names.

Taryn: … we both have androgynous names.

Jori: … damnit.

Four — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:25:47 +0000

Weird Breakfasts

I asked Jori what he wanted for breakfast this morning and the first time, he said “Belgian waffles with strawberry topping and whipped cream” and the second time I asked he said “A tall glass of orange juice and a tall glass of coffee”. The above image is the result. The Rabba strawberries were surprisingly good. We plan to have it again for dessert.

Below is an image of our oatmeal yesterday. It had blueberries and oranges in it. I also.. put chocolate in it. It was super good. It may sound and look disgusting, but it’s really good. The reason why I ended up putting chocolate in it was because we were using oranges. Orange + chocolate = good combo. I’m not sure how often I’m going to slip chocolate into my oatmeal though.. oranges though? Good idea.

I also had a conversation with a man that I was cashing out at Longos the other day about grilled cheese. Somehow the conversation ended up on what we like with grilled cheese. One of his favourite was frying ham when you do your grilled cheese and at the last minute slip in the ham. Then he told me that if you just make plain grilled cheese and put peanut butter on top right after you finish it you would have one of the best grilled cheeses you’ve tasted. He said he sold over 100 people on it. I’m tempted to try it. The woman after him seemed to be grossed out by the idea though.

So here’s another Pho Saigon inspired meal. I bought rice paper and vermicelli from work and made summer rolls! Or a poor student version. Yesterday before I went to my cousin’s wedding I made some mango rolls but I was in such a rush that I didn’t end up taking any pictures. This time I ended up putting in napa cabbage, bean sprouts, enoki mushrooms, cucumber and imitation crab meat. I plan to make them with meat some other time and make the peanut sauce when I get my hoisin sauce back. They’re pretty fast to make, I was super impressed.

Four — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:17:13 +0000

We Made Sushi!

I’ve always really wanted to make maki sushi or inverted sushi. Yesterday it was pouring outside and I decided that I’d love to walk half an hour to No Frills. I trekked down there and with one reusable bag and (of course) bought more than I should have or at least more than I could reasonably fit into the bag. Being a master of Tetris, I got it to mostly fit and asked for a three dollar cash back to take the bus (I know, I’m stupid). I walked out of there realizing that I they didn’t carry wasabi and walked over to Wasabi Teriyaki which was conveniently next door. I’m not really sure as to what I was thinking but I just asked how much wasabi would be. Being three dollars, I sacrificed my bus fare for wasabi and walked all the way home in the pouring rain.

It took a lot longer than I had expected because I forgot about the rice cooling down. The first picture above shows all the ingredients that I chopped up to go into the sushi. They are: shitaki mushrooms, fried egg, imitation crab meat, cucumber, avocado and fried tofu. Beside it are our first couple of rolls. I ate all of my first one because it didn’t roll up completely and fell apart, as did most of our first rolls. They’re just clumped together in the photo so they don’t apart. The inverted maki turned out pretty sweet, but I didn’t make enough rice so we didn’t make many of those. The rice screwed me over again with my unsubstantial amount prepared. Sushi uses so much rice!

“K, what if we just put rice by the edges?” -JB

So above is our final result. You can click on all the images to enlarge them.

Jori’s favourite combo
1. Lots of cucumber, medium crab, little avocado
2. “ALL VEGGIE” - even amounts of avocado, cucumber and mushroom.

Taryn’s favourite combo
1. Lots of crab, lots of avacado
2. Egg and mushroom

Here’s some sequential shots, click to enlarge!

Four — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:53:17 +0000

Four — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:15:27 +0000

Alright, I’m back and I’ve updated. I’ve redone the Art section, posted new work, reorganized, deleted stuff that I don’t think represents myself. The About section has also been updated.

These were gifts for my parents for Fathers day and for my mom’s birthday. Leeloo is my dog and Abby is my cat. I used pigment liners on canvas and then I painted the canvas with yellow acrylic. I got the canvases from Walmart (haha). I used a different type of pen for my dog’s ear and it turned out really dark when I sprayed fixative on it. Figures, eh?

These are my first ever Guacamole dips made from scratch. The one on the left was from one really ripe avacado. This was the first one that inspired me to make more. I used tomato, onion and lots of garlic with lemon juice and salt and pepper generally. Inspired by the success I went down to the Rabba and bought four avacados a tomato and green onion and made the second one. During this I texted my dad, “I made guacamole from scratch!” and he texted back, ” Excellent!” If you knew my dad you would know how little excitement he shows over little things, especailly in text form.

I was working my 7am shift at Longos and a man came in with 45 avacados in a box. He owns a Mexican resturant and his shipment was late so he had to run over here. They use 45 avacados a day! I told him about my guacamole and asked about the ripeness and he told me that all you need to do is put avacados in a closed bag and they’ll ripen. It’s a shame other resturants don’t do that.

I made tapioca at the same time as the guacamole. I don’t know if they were the same type of starch balls that I was used to cooking at Pho Saigon, but they took more than 40 minutes to make. Perhaps it was because the oven at Pho was more powerful. I made these because Chantel was coming over and I thought it would be awesome to make some bubble tea. I also had honey dew powder and green apple coconut jellies so it was an awesome plan. After you boil your tapioca so you can’t see the light colours in the middle, you strain it and you have to rinse it out for a couple of minutes. It’s also just good to do a taste test to see if they’re the correct consistancy. After they’re done you have to put them in a sealed container with lots of sugar to sweeten them.

This was the result! It tasted great!

The first image is some crazy instant Korean noodles that had over 7 different types of meat as a soup base. The noodles turned out nicely. Jori made them this time, they look good! Note: white ninja on desk.

The second one is over me as Ziggy Stardust. Chantel wanted me to model for her makeup portfolio so as treat she did me as Ziggy.

Here’s Jori during a regular night at my place.

I hope you enjoyed these! I did.