Late Night Dinner Part II

The tortilla did not turn out. I've made it before, but never with such a large frying pan. We had to toss it. Yuck! Having your own Turnip fluff all to yourself is pretty great...and the pork and fried rice was pretty good. Actually, the pork was amazing. We added honey to the recipe though...

Late Night Dinner

I'm in the process of making dinner after 1am. It's going to be yummy. I'm following a Canadian Living Test Kitchen recipe.

Grilled Dijon Herb Pork Chops
By The Canadian Living Test Kitchen

Servings: 4
Ingredients:
1/4 cup (50 mL) Dijon mustard
2 tsp (10 mL) olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 tsp (1 mL) each salt, pepper and dried thyme
1/4 tsp (1 mL) dried rosemary, crumbled
4 pork loin chops, 1/2 to 3/4 inch (1 to 2 cm) thick

Preparation:

In shallow glass dish, whisk together mustard, oil, garlic, salt, pepper, thyme and rosemary. Add chops, turning to coat; let stand for 15 minutes.

Place chops on greased grill or in grill pan over medium-high heat; close lid and cook, turning once, for 8 to 10 minutes or until juices run clear when chops are pierced and just a hint of pink remains inside.


While I'm making this, I'm also working on a Turnip Fluff (Thanks to Mom) and a Tortilla de Patatas, a Spanish potato omlette (Thanks to Brian). I'll take pictures and see how it all goes...It should be interesting because I'm mixing sweet potatoes with regular white potatoes. One must try to use up the contents of ones fridge before they move out of their apartment

Brockville

This is our new home in a couple of weeks. It will be nice to be on the St. Lawrence again. This is where James and I both went to highschool. This is where we met when I was about 14. It will be interesting to spend some time there.
-Allison

Lunch!

Here's what I was lucky enough to have for lunch. It cost all of $2.99 for 10 of them at Kowloon market and takes about 6 minutes to steam from frozen. It's called Shao Mai (seafood dumpling) and it's delicious. I suggest ordering them when you're out for Dim Sum. My other favourite is Har Gow (shrimp dumpling).
-Allison

Downtown Ottawa!

For those of you who venture into the downtown core to party and get drunk, I feel the need to remind you that people live downtown. That's right, we live here. We're the people that wake up at 4 in the morning because you need to have your drunken PHO on the corner of Somerset and Rochester. Personally I can handle the honking and screaming and Woohoos...but I worry about the families in this neighbourhood who hear countless offensive things late at night. Next time you're out late at night in Chinatown try to remember the families trying to get sleep while you're honking and screaming at your drunk buddies to hurry up....or whatever random cursing and swearing that must be so important.

Don't even get me started on Bank st. and the poor folks who live on Gilmour that have to listen to that Barrymore's line-up on Sundays. You know, last year you jerks were so bored waiting to get into the club you ripped a lovely tree right out of it's planter. Don't lie to me. I watched you do it from work.

Bah!
-Allison

Quttinirpaaq National Park

Gull Clacier ("Hand of God") at Tanquary Fiord
I want to go here too...
-Allison

Auyuittuq National Park

Mt. Asgard

There are beautiful National parks in Nunavut.We want to see them so badly. Here are some photo's I found to remind me of where I want to go.
-Allison