The girlfriend asked if I was obsessed with the cupcakes or just pretty things, I opted for the pretty things.  How can one not love these cupcakes from The Cupcake Bakery right.

I wasn’t the only obsessed as you can see – but whether the co-worker was obsessed with pretty things or cupcakes, your guess is as good as mine. Did she have all of them.. ?? yes she did..!

Was i disappointed like some told me.. on their return ..?? nah.. it was pretty nice.. i liked the new store at The QVB better, because it is just too cute the store.  The huge menu as you can see there .. makes it all too easy to choose all of them.  The price is like more designer cupcakes at $3.50Aud – they looked good and tasted fine by me – lots of icing.. and i know my kid would love it.

A summer night drink on the patio after a bbq with some good friends.  What can one asked for more? good friends and a good drink of Vodka with some lychee liquer and club soda with some lemon juice and of course ice cubes.  The girlfriends put in some fruits in theirs but I just had mine with some mint leaves. Very refreshing and very cool.

So there was a cart at the Farmer’s market back home and they had these charity hotdog – to raise fund for some children’s place in town.  Not a bad day for a quickie – so asked for one.  In order to get fed, one just need to make a donation, so  I did.  I see a lot of people giving like a toonie or a loonie but I gave $5 and the guy selling the hotdogs asked if I only wanted one.  Guess he must think $5 is entitled to more?

The wife and I came home the other night and while putting away the dishes, so that she can wash another batch found this in our dish rack.  Obviously, this isn’t one of our work but of the babysitter.   I asked the wife, if the sitter even washed the pot, in which the wife was being nice and said, she was probably distracted from looking after our monster brat.

The sitter will be going away to college this fall and will be staying in her own apartment, if I were her parents, I would be real worried for her.

Local and Organic, what more can I say.  Life is Good.

Funky colored lobster had been appearing on our shores for the last few years.  Everyone was excited when we had our first blue lobster and I had asked some who had cooked and eat them if they tasted any different, apparently not.  Lobster pigmentation was what caused the lobster to turn blue according to some fishermen in town. Whether it is for a fact or not I don’t know for sure.

My favorite munchie store – been here before I was in high school.  Now that has gotta say something right.  Whether you need a newspaper, a drink, a snack or a sandwich, they even have ice cream – here is where you go.

Loads of munchies

It’s spaghetties but getties is stucked because the kid calls it that.  One never knew how versatile the spaghetties can get until you get a chinese wife craving for noodles.  Lately, we haven’t had any luck getting her some udon to fry some noodles for herself and the kid.  So she did what she knows best, IMPROVISED and used getties and some bee hoon instead.  Bee hoon is rice vermecilli if you didn’t already know that.  So for those like my wife, who needs noodles but can’t find them, try using ghettis.  The tip that may save your marriage.

Once you’ve eaten Arby’s roast beef, you know you are not going anywhere else for fast food.  Bad fast food ?  I don’t think, you should see how much beef they give you inside your bun, it’s crazy.  Almost like beef don’t cost any money here.  Super thin slices of roast beef and just order them without the dressing else you will have them dripping all over your shirt.  I made this mistake once and I order them plain now and put whatever I want later.  Try their curly fries as well and they do have salad as well.

What do you do when you see this huge crate of sweet potatoes..??  In our family, we make sweet potatoes tempura !!  the kid loves it, the wife thinks it is healthy and me  – it’s easy enough to peel them off  and cut them up and dump them into the deep fryer or better yet put them in the oven and baked them.   We watch tv and munched them down.  The kid thinks I’m  a hero and the wife thinks I am a good father.

LARGE  Sweet Potatoes
Vegetable Oil
Tempura Batter for Vegetables, Meat & Fish

Preheat the deep fat fryer to 365 degrees.
Wash the sweet potatoes.
Parboil for about 10 minutes.
Pare the sweet potatoes and cut into 1/2? wide x 1/2? thick strips.
Dip the sweet potato strips into the tempura batter.
Place in skimmer and gently lower into the deep fat fryer.
Remove the sweet potato strips from the hot fat with the skimmer when they
float to the surface and have turned golden brown.
Serve hot.