Fun Wildflower Date

I am following up with my last post and showing you the delicious breakfast Michelle and I had at Wildflower Grill this morning.  I started with a fresh glass of apple juice while Michelle had coffee in a fancy coffee press!  


And here is what we devoured:

 The cornbread we started with (came with the brunch).  Michelle also taught me an interesting fact about cornbread today, but I don't think it's very nice to repeat so I won't.

Michelle's delicious meal and description:

Eggs Benedict Two Ways
red wine poached egg | maple glazed back bacon | bearnaise
saffron poached egg | chicken breast | roasted red pepper charon | brioche crouton

The thing she got on the bottom left was AWESOME.  We're not really sure what it was..some kind of cubed scalloped potato dish?

My also delicious meal and description:

‘De-Constructed’ Seafood Frittata
seafood ragout | vol au vent | fontina cheese | sundried tomato frittata

 

I also learned today that a frittata is a type of Italian omelette.  Yum!

 

Yes, there was alot of food and it definitely was very filling, but when our server put the dessert menu in front of us, we couldn't resist.  We decided if we shared something it would be ok and we had the Sorbet Trio. 

The sorbet was strawberry, mango and raspberry flavoured.  We figured eating a dessert made of ice and juice is healthy, so we devoured this in no time :)

 

After receiving our bill we came to the conclusion that we are definitely aging because our taste is getting more and more expensive.  What happened to a good old Egg McMuffin in the morning?  We blame our bad habit on our immaturities 3-4 years ago when we all first met.  All we ever wanted to do for birthday dinners was to dress up and fancier restaurants are the only place to do this.  As we got older throughout the years and learned to appreciate food, we are now going to restaurants for the food more than for the sole purpose of dressing up.  Poor bank accounts!

On a side note, AWESOME WORK CANADA!!!!!!!!!!! Great way to end the Olympics by winning that Gold medal!

Yummy Brunch & Other Food

I have a feeling that a new obsession is emerging.  I think I am becoming addicted to brunches.  I blame Cora for this addiction, but it's so delicious...how can anyone resist?  Take a look for yourself:

Johnny's "Cora's Special"

My Mushroom and Brie Eggs Benedict

My "Eggs in a Skillet au Gratin"

Last week, I went to Blue Plate Diner and had great Eggs Benedict there as well.  It was really good and not as heavy as the one I ordered at Cora.

I'm going for brunch tomorrow morning at Wildflower Grill.  I hope it's as delicious as the menu sounds!  These are the two I'm deciding between and don't know if I should go with the Traditional Eggs Benedict (which is what I get at every restaurant, it seems to be a benchmark to compare each place) or the delicious sounding Seafood Frittata.

Traditional Eggs Benedict

poached eggs | maple glazed back bacon | hollandaise | english muffin

‘De-Constructed’ Seafood Frittata

seafood ragout | vol au vent | fontina cheese | sundried tomato frittata


Since we're on the topic of food, I went down to Calgary a couple of weeks ago with some friends and found a place called Wa Sushi.  It's supposed to have pretty decent ramen (considering we pretty much have nothing in Alberta) and we tried it amongst other things:

My Tonkatsu Ramen

 

Salmon Skin Roll, Nagi Toro Maki/Cone, Salmon and Toro Sushi, Chop Chop Sushi

Cynthia's Katsudon

The ramen was ok, but nothing super special.  I miss Japan more and more when I realize I can't find much here that's comparable to the food there!

I miss you Yokohama Ramen!

Eurotrip 2010

J and I have been researching some places to go in Europe and think we have a decent idea of what countries we want to visit.  The hard part is planning everything and dishing out the money.  Once the tickets are booked and everything is paid for, I will no longer be able to focus on school.  


Last semester = last strands of patience.  I just have to hold on for a little while more!

Congratulations!!!

To Jessie and Timothy Wong on their recent engagement!  So exciting!!!!!!!!

People Watching

This song is dedicated to J since he thinks it's strange that I watch people :)


People Watching - Jack Johnson


Well I'm just people watching, the other people watching me
We're all people watching, the other people watching we

We're as lonely as we want it to be
We're all as lonely as we want it to be
Just as lonely as we want it to be
I'm just you, you're just me
It's only true, if we believe

Well there really ain't no use in stopping
What nobody never told me not to do
So I'll keep people watching
Watching me now
Finding my way back to you

We're as lonely as we want it to be
We're all as lonely as we want it to be
I'm just as lonely as we want it to be
I'm just you, you're just me
It's only, true if we believe

I see so many feet going so many ways
People passing by they got nothing to say
On our own just watching and confused
Well if nobody told me what to do
I guess I'm breaking all the rules

Well I'm just people watching the other people watching me
We're all people watching the other people watching we

We're as lonely as we want it to be
We're not so lonely as we want it to be
I'm just as lonely as I want it to be
Not so lonely 

Yay!!

I just found out about an hour ago from my coworker that I get reimbursed for my last year of school from ATCO!  It's a new program they just started last year and I wasn't really expecting to get it!  Now I can actually go travelling :) woo hoo!!

Coffee Time!

We had coffee night today which was nice!!  It's been a while since we've all gotten together and humiliated ourselves in public.  I think today was no exception for sure.


The free pastries were a nice bonus.  We are not cheap Asians.  If we were, we would've asked for the whole tray of pastries, haha.