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Drunken Chess and trip to St-Hyacinthe

Here's a great pic my sister took of the game of chess me and Steph played last Saturday, it turned out that way completely accidentally :P


'' drunk '' screenshot. by ~FriendlyArt120 on deviantART

Here's a slideshow of pics I took when we went to visit Steph's friend Martine in St. Hyacinthe last weekend. She has such a beautiful house!

Pork Larb and Meatballs in Milk (a.k.a. a new list)

I think I'm gonna have to start a new "recipes I want to make" list cause the last one seems to be sadly forgotten lol. I'll start with this and this.

And this and this and this.

When will I learn to not read food blogs on an empty stomach? lol.

And World's Easiest Icecream and Guava Icecream!

Roasted Beet Salad with Guajillo Chile Dressing

BLT Salad

I'm making this for dinner tonight :D:D:D Along with a pizza-burger!

Thanksgiving Leftover Sushi And a Pizza Burger

This Is Why You're Fat is back up!!!! :D:D:D

Lol I have to make this soon :P I even have some turkey drumsticks in my freezer since Christmas :D

Ooh! And this too!! *drools*

Tams & Hotpot July 4th

Late happy 4th of July to all the Americans out there!

Here's some pics from the 4th, Tams and Hotpot afterward:

24-Hour Pork Roast

Yesterday me and Steph decided to cook a roast. He put it in the oven at around noon. Seeing as the bottom element wasn't working, he set the dial for the top element and put the temperature at around 300 to leave it till 9pm or so. At around 5pm we checked and the stove hadn't even started heating yet. Big sigh. So we put the dial to bake and set it at 350. At 9:30pm we checked it and the liquid in the pot was hot, but I could still hold my finger in it, and the roast was still raw. Bigger sigh. We put the roast back in at 400 (which was in reality only 300 or so since the bottom element wasn't working). At midnight we checked: smelled good but needed more cooking, so back into the oven it went for the night. Snore. At 5am I checked and the onions still seemed crunchy, it was barely even bubbling so I turned it up to 450. At 10am this morning this is what I took out of the oven:





Here's the breakfast plate I made myself this morning with the mashed potatoes and carrots I made last night in anticipation of a roast dinner:



And yes that is some bacon with the onions. My original idea was to wrap the roast in bacon since it had no fat on it, but we ended up marinating it and cooking it in the liquid, and when I brought up my bacon idea Steph said "well throw it in anyways" hehe. So I can now say I've had stewed bacon lol. It's actually good, the onions are delicious too.

On Sunrise Watch

I took these from the roof of my building facing east just now:




This one's from my balcony:



Lol there's a roast in the oven for breakfast cause the oven stopped working yesterday and it finally started cooking at like 10pm or something:P

BBQ at the Hotpot

Last Sunday we went to the Hotpot for BBQ after the Tams. It's the first time I have BBQ at the table like that, it was really yummy. Next time I go to the Hotpot I wanna get the charcoal hotpot though. The charcoal smells sooo good!



Clockwise from left is Chris, Richard, Elias, Carlo and Scott:




That was also the first time I saw Elias shaved. Everyone kept saying how he looked so much younger without his beard:





Last Sat. night we went to the Old Port to watch the fireworks and on the way back we came across a store with the name "Eternal Christmas" lol:



Here's an amazing poutine my roommate Christelle made for me today, it was more like a soup of sauce with fries and lots of cheese lol. It was sooo good :D

Jean-Talon Market, Place Alexis-Nihon, and flowers

My sister and I went to the Jean-Talon market again recently.

Here's the buffalo ribs and chicken drumstick we had:



And the old-fashioned chips:



More pastries from Le Ryad. My favourite is the brown half-crescent thingy:



Here's the merguez grilling at L'olivier:



And the lamb and chicken they had grilling too:



We had a lamb sandwich too, it was delicious :D

Here's a pretty blue-eyed dog I saw at the market:



Oh and I saw Scott Dunbar too! Here's a video I took of him playing a slow version of Billy Jean. I prefer the fast version though.



We also went to Place Alexis-Nihon. Here's my sis in front of the grocery store there:



Here we are on the escalator:



Here's the blooms of one of my plants, it's the first time I see it bloom: