Food | Grated Expectations

Baked Goods Are Good

September 24, 2013 by Katrina·1 Comment

Scott made these sweet cupcake burgers for his work bake sale. Everyone loved them and they were the first things to sell out! That’s a brownie “beef patty” in between vanilla cupcake “buns” with icing “lettuce” and “ketchup”, with heart sprinkles cut in half “sesame seeds”!

I made M&M cookies for me and Reese’s Pieces cookies for Scott. They turned out tasty but SO flat. Then I realized that our baking powder expired in 2011. That MIGHT have something do with it, haha!

This Crepes of Wrath focaccia turned out awesome. I really enjoyed my cheese sandwich for breakfast this morning! Making bread is kinda cool but I certainly miss my mom’s KitchenAid mixer with dough hook for sure. Especially for this one because the dough was suuuuuper sticky!

Sushi By Yuji

September 23, 2013 by Katrina·0 Comments

Last week we tried out a new sushi restaurant near our house called Sushi by Yuji. It’s much nicer and more authentic than the sushi places we usually go to. A nice treat after writing my certification exam last week.

The sushi was great, but the service wasn’t. The fish was all fresh and good but we waited 5ever for our food. We were sitting at the sushi bar so I could see the chef making roll after roll after roll for the other two tables. He didn’t start on our order until he had completely finished the other two tables. I feel like he should have made us something in the middle of that! They also forgot to make the big sushi platter we asked for, and then tried to charge us twice for it when we did get it.

These negitoro with egg thingies were cool. First time trying sushi with raw egg in it! It was squishy and tasty and also very hard to fit in my mouth!

We also got a spicy salmon roll that was decent. I watched him make it and now I know how to make spicy rolls at home! (Sriracha, mayo, green onion… why did we never think of that…)

Overall it was good but I’m not in a big rush to go back because the extra cost doesn’t seem worth it when you can get pretty decent sushi faster and easier at other places.

Daily Dinners Post #19 of 26

September 23, 2013 by Katrina·0 Comments

Back again with another daily dinners post. There’s a few restaurant meals in the mix but I didn’t talk about them much because I think I’ll make separate review posts later.

september 8th, 2013 – pesto pasta with sausage and peppers

september 9th, 2013 – pulled pork sandwich with green beans

september 10th, 2013 – alaska roll and spicy tuna roll from Sushi Garden

We picked up sushi before going to a movie… accidentally carried it sideways in Scott’s bag. Oops!! SUSHI SCRAMBLE! Still tasted delicious though. I think Sushi Garden is my new favourite cheapo sushi restaurant.

september 11th, 2013 – homemade burger with avocado and yellow sweet potato fries

september 12th, 2013 – big salad with grilled chicken

september 13th, 2013 – panang curry with chicken, peas, green beans, zucchini, eggplant

september 14th, 2013 – homemade chicken soup with homemade bread

september 15th, 2013 – big salad with grilled chicken

september 16th, 2013 – bruschetta with grilled chicken

september 17th, 2013 – assorted sushi from Sushi By Yuji

september 18th, 2013 – lasagna

september 19th, 2013 – leftover chicken soup and cheesy garlic bread

september 20th, 2013 – savoury pancake and sticky cauliflower

I like the pancake but Scott didn’t, and Scott liked the cauliflower but I didn’t. Ha.

september 21st, 2013 – chicken, crepe, steamed buns, lobster, cheesecake from Richmond Night Market

Daily Dinners Post #18 of 26

September 9, 2013 by Katrina·7 Comments

Lots of recipes in this daily dinners post today! They’re linked in the captions in the pictures, which for whatever reason don’t seem to show up on Feedly. You’ll have to click over to the post on my blog if you’re using Feedly and interested in seeing them.