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Last Friday Rosemarie, Rob, Scott and I went to the Eatery for dinner. It was our third time there and since we are all adventurous meat-eaters now we went all out and got all sorts of crazy sushi.

We had tempura vegetables and tempura tuna to start. There are no pictures of this because we were all extremely hungry and wolfed it all down really quickly. We all thought the tempura was really well done though, better than average tempura. I don’t like how large they leave the pieces of broccoli and cauliflower, but that’s me being picky. Rosemarie REALLY loved the tempura green pepper… she wanted me to write that.

Here are the rolls that we chose:

  1. Papaya New Guinea: papaya, crab, cucumber, mayo
  2. Viva Las Vegas: crab, eel, avocado, cream cheese, spicy misonnaise (tempura style)
  3. Italian Stallion: prosciutto, papaya, eel, cream cheese, hot pesto sauce
  4. Figa Roll: figs, blue cheese sauce, tempura crunch, wrapped in prosciutto
  5. Spicy Salmon Crunch: spicy tuna, cucumbers, spicy salmon, tobiko
  6. Sweet Heart: spicy tuna, scallop, tobiko, black sesame sauce
  7. Electric Banana: eel, avocado, tempura banana
  8. Crazy Spice: salmon, tempura bits, hot chili sauce
  9. Tex-Mex: california roll covered with tomato, avocado, roe and salmon

I loved everything except maybe the spicy rolls (#5 and #8). Both of them were so spicy that I couldn’t taste anything else of that piece plus the next piece that I ate. I think the Crazy Spice roll actually just had chili and garlic Sriracha sauce on it. Would not order those again. But Rob liked them, so to each his own.

Top 3 rolls of the night:

  • Katrina & Scott both say: Figa Roll, Italian Stallion, Electric Banana
  • Rosemarie says: Figa Roll, Viva Las Vegas, Tex-Mex
  • Rob says: Electric Banana, Crazy Spice, Spicy Salmon Crunch

The fig roll was really really delicious. I have never really eaten figs before but now I want more because that roll was especially pleasing to my mouth. Mmmmm. We had tried the Italian Stallion roll the last time we went to the Eatery so we already knew we wanted it again. So delicious. And the banana roll was just cool, the banana was really sweet and tasty.

Rob and Scott ate all the ginger pretty quickly and asked for more and the waitress brought over a new plate with seriously more than a cup of ginger! We thought we were going to have to pay for that, but it wasn’t on the bill. Woot.

Anyway we all had drinks too like sake margaritas and the bill ended up being just over $30 each. Not cheap for us students but a nice treat once and a while for sure. The Eatery is definitely one of my all-time favourite restaurants.

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On Sunday we made homemade Montreal style bagels. I used this recipe, and they turned out pretty nice! I was surprised at how simple it actually was to make our own bagels. We just had to make the dough, knead for 10 minutes, cut up the dough and shape it into bagels, then boil for 90 seconds, dip in sesame seeds, and bake for 20 minutes.

Before baking:

I forgot to take an after baking picture. They puffed up a bit in the oven and got a nice brown colour.

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Things I did this weekend:

  • A WHOLE LOT OF STUDYING
  • a million assignments
  • several games of NHL12 on the PS3
  • two movies (Hugo and Young Adult)
  • breakfast pizza
  • Greek food
  • 30 Day Shred

Three midterms coming up this week. I need to study a lot!! Anatomy, applied physiology, and physics. Eugh.

The hockey video game is surprisingly fun. I actually beat Scott!!

Hugo was good, I liked it. That movie had a lot of dust, did anyone else notice that?? Young Adult was ok I guess, but frustrating. I guess that was kind of what they were going for though.

Scott made breakfast pizza tonight. We have homemade pizza every second Sunday but I was a bit bored of the usual pizza so I asked for something new. This pizza had ham, tomato, green onion, and eggs cracked on top. It was delicious!

Last night we went out for dinner. Scott won a gift certificate from the Polar Bear Swim for Stepho’s, a Greek restaurant on Davie Street. We got there around 7 pm and there was a big line, as expected. Luckily since we were just a group of 2 we got seated a lot quicker. I would not recommend going there in a big group! We ordered a lamb platter, saganaki (fried cheese), and dolmathes (rice and meat in grape leaves) to share. I enjoyed the saganaki (duh) and the flavour of the dolmathes a lot, but they were quite oily. The lamb was really big and incredibly tender. It fell off the bones. The sides (salad, vegetables, rice) were all good and it came with a lot! We didn’t finish everything.

Scott and I started the 30 Day Shred last week. It’s a quick intense workout program thingy that you can do at home. You need weights. It was a little harder today…. maybe because of last nights fried cheese. We’re done 4 of 30 days. I get soooo sweaty and I really hate the jumping parts – my calves cramp up. I hope we can complete the program but it will definitely be tough.

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Day 1 of solitude hasn’t been so bad.

Scott actually didn’t have to leave until around 11 AM so we had a lazy morning together. We ate sushi leftovers and played NHL 12 on the Playstation. I got the game for a present for Scott through some special connections at school. I knew he wanted it and the price was right so I got it. Actually it was pretty fun playing it against each other this morning, but maybe only because we were both equally bad at it. Once he gets good I probably won’t want to play any. But anyway, the commentators were funny and the graphics are pretty cool. And I (Sens) beat him (Canucks) 2-1. YEAH.

Yesterday was lots of fun. My aunt and uncle came over for dinner. Rosemarie and Scott did most of the cooking, which was nice. Rosemarie made pork dumplings, and I chopped up the vegetables and fish for sushi. Scott made white chocolate raspberry mini cheesecakes. Then Rosemarie rolled all the sushi and then I dropped it on the floor. We ate it anyway. Take a look at our feast!


We had lots of leftovers. Fine by me!!

After dinner we played two games of Settlers. I love Settlers. What a great game. I wish we were rich so I could buy THIS. Only $489.95! (and that one doesn’t even come with a trunk. yeesh)

Anyway I finished two lab reports today, which is good. I’ve still got three assignments and studying to do tomorrow. And grocery shopping. Blech.

I hope I sleep better tonight, I’ve had two very bad insomnia nights in a row. :(

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We continued our tradition of Mexican food for Valentine’s Day, but it wasn’t a good experience this year. We went to Dona Cata, a restaurant that someone from the Vancouver Livejournal community recommended to me last year. It was supposed to be really tasty and authentic.

We each ordered something that was basically a plate of mixed up meat and vegetables and cheese that comes with corn tortillas on the side.

Ugh it was SO greasy. Scott’s chicken was also extremely bland and flavourless.

I don’t know, maybe the food was more like what regular Mexican people eat for dinner at home? Maybe the issue was that it was TOO authentic for us? I’m not sure. I missed guacamole and beans and rice. :( I felt like we would have had a nicer meal had we just cooked our own dinner at home.

The service was also really slow, which was unfortunate because I was hoping for a quick dinner so I could get home and study more. It ended up taking a pretty long time, and then when I got home I felt so gross and greasy that I didn’t even do much more school work. Luckily the midterm still went extremely well today.