What happens when you go to one of those Japanese carousel thingy restaurants for a “quick bite” to eat? You end up picking twelve plates, spending a fortune - then having to go to the cinema and get a large popcorn and minstrels because you still aren’t full. Tiny plates do not make a meal!
Excuse the poor pictures, camera phones are not great at capturing rotating food!
Home-made vegetarian burritos in less than ten minutes. Even though all “real” vegetarians pooh pooh the use of Quorn mince as tasteless and horrible, I love it. I use it in lasagnes, for bolognaise sauce and Mexican food and it is gorgeous, even my carnivorous boyfriend eats it. So these are burritos with Quorn mince and fresh guacamole, otherwise known as extremely messy goodness.
The “fake” mince, not so photogenic - but tastes amazing.
Couldn’t wait for it to be ready, the dieter’s big mistake..snacking.
The finished product, plus some Mateus.
Me, slavishly slaving away!
This is just too weird. Everyone wishes that the junk food they eat could miraculously be healthy for you, but I doubt anyone wants to eat a science experiment.
Just back from an “all you can eat” dinner at Hi Sushi Salsa in Camden. When it comes to buffets and “all you can eat” places, I am a seriously cheap date. After a plate and a half I am full to the gills - my mum calls it having “eyes bigger than your belly”. At the moment the ratio of eyes to belly is still in my favour, but after a few more of these “all you can eat” dinners and it may not be. Hi Sushi Salsa does “all you can eat” the way it should be done - made to order. Unlike some buffet restaurants where all you get is some greasy stir fry and unidentifiable deep fried scrapings (plus you have to fight other patrons for the best bits), Hi Sushi lets you choose from a menu with various tempura, teriyaki, noodle, sashimi and sushi dishes. You can choose 7 hot dishes, 1 noodle or ramen dish and six sushi dishes. The sushi is repeatable, meaning you can order seconds or even thirds. Regretfully, we ordered a second (more out of a sense of getting your money’s worth than actual hunger). As they were closing soon, we were given a sushi board with twice as much as the previous one had; presumably to dissuade us from ordering a third. I felt so bad, it was so beautifully prepared and delicious and I couldn’t face eating another bite. We were also drowning in green tea, after about a dozen refills. We forced down another five pieces each - to be polite of course. C had ordered the sake, a first for him - so of course he decided to order the large! The look on his face after he tasted it was enough to make me feel sorry enough for him, that I didn’t insist he drink the whole thing. I would have liked to have capped off the meal with a green tea ice cream, served in a martini glass but we were both too ill to attempt it. I staggered out, unable to even button up my coat. Is that a sign of a good meal or sheer gluttony?
Why so many pictures of the same thing, because it looks so pretty - am a total sushi pornographer!
I am so tired of getting food that is so far from what I wanted and having to eat it anyway out of politeness. Yesterday was such an example, at one of the Mexican stands in Camden Loch. All I wanted was a tortilla with salad and sour cream, maybe a hint of guacamole. What did I get- this mess of a “vegetarian” burrito. Not only was it not what I wanted, it was sloppy, full of jalapeños and stone cold! The man operating the stand just would not listen to me and handed me the standard vegetarian crap. Once again, punished for not eating meat. At least it was full of relatively edible butter beans and chickpeas, but still cold and not what I ordered. Grumble, grumble.
Seriously, would you eat this?
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