Hmmmm… what to write about other than my disturbingly long toenails…
That was for a friend, yummymommy on livejournal. It was a few weeks ago now, went to a mutual friends b-day party (b-day girl goes by Bandia on our websites, arwin.org is her blog). The birthday girl barfed her guts out and yummymommy painted my toenails and I promised I’d mention it in my journal, because I never write, and these people get tired of checking and getting NOTHING! It frustrates me too, I -think- about writing all the time. Particularly because I’ve actually been doing a fair bit lately, and have stuff to write about, besides birthday puke and my toenails even.
In no particular order…
Went to an -awesome- new restauraunt in our neighbourhood, called Curious. It’s on pender off of carrall in gastown here in Vancouver if you’re local and looking for a culinary experience. Really yummy little dishes, like fusion tapas almost. I like places where you can get lots of small dishes, share, and taste many things. It was Tanuki, Wolfe, and I on the day before thanksgiving, which was just a couple of days ago here in Canada. So we checked out Curious. Started out with a mixed greens salad that had mandarin slices and pumpkin seed dressing and goat cheese… so yummy. Followed with Ahi tuna tartare, which was served with home made thin crispy light crackers – to die for, my fave out of all the dishes. Then we got some little prawn taco bowls with corn salsa… still very very good even though the least favorite of the dishes for me. We had firecracker broccolli then, which was sweet salty and spicy with slivered almonds. Then we had beef medallions served with a little potato and aspargus. All the dishes were small but large enough for us each to have a good taste of it split in three. We ended with frangelico creme brule (spelling? I’m too lazy to check.) served with biscotti. I went to heaven. The challenge is now to stay out of it, and NOT walk around the corner to eat there everynight, how to grow broke quick. I would say safely though that we’ll probably hit Curious for a meal once a month, and that tuna tartare and creme brule will be part of the order for the night.
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