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Breakfast by Brian

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Ching under Food and Drink.

I was feeling cruddy on Saturday but went to teach my Zumba class anyway. Why? Because that’s what Vikings do. LOL. Sick or not, you meet your commitments. Besides, it would have been too late to find a sub. Even though I only have a handful of regulars (literally, it’s rare that we hit double-digit attendance), I couldn’t let them down. Plus, Jenni stayed with us so she went to Zumba with me.

I was richly rewarded when I arrived home. Brian made a huge feast for breakfast in honor of our friend Anthony’s visit.

We had ham steaks, hash browns, and fried eggs made-to-order.

We also had mimosas, which is pretty standard at our house on weekends. Except, we went through two bottles of champagne on Saturday morning because Jenni pretty much drank a whole bottle by herself.

After that she took a nap. Brian and Anthony started working on his SQL stuff while I did dishes. We originally wanted to go to Exploration Place in the afternoon, but the weather was yucky and I started feeling even worse than I did that morning so we all just stuck around the house until dinner.

Dinner was interesting. Jenni brought Justin over so we finally got to meet him. We had an early dinner and played board games for a while after. I was going to go see Fallen Amish at Snug Harbor, but I was sick and wasn’t in any condition to be out so an evening of board games it was. Justin seems like a nice guy. Any guy who likes playing Apples to Apples is fine by me. He won Brian over when we agreed to play Black Ops. Brian was so thrilled to finally have someone to play with. He’s like the sad only child with lots of toys and no friends. He was so happy to have a Playstation playmate who is over the age of 14. LOL.

I played cricket (darts) with Anthony for one round before finally pooping out. It was pretty early, though. I think I crashed around ten o’clock. Brian stayed up and played video games. I’m not sure what time they went to bed.

I woke up the next morning with a fever so I was even less fun than the previous day. Still managed to be pleasant though. Brian talked me out of going to Amie’s Sunday Zumba class. I’m glad I listened. I think she would have killed me.

Instead we stayed home and made brunch. We had rice, bacon, scrambled eggs, toast (for the guys), and white rice (mostly for me and Jenni). No mimosas this time since we were out of champagne, though I felt like drinking myself into oblivion because I was so miserable and had no codeine. Brian went to the store and got me some chewable Vitamin C tablets, though. I took a couple of those and then drank several glasses of OJ. Not quite as good without the champagne, but I needed the Vitamin C.

I wish that I wasn’t so miserably sick over the weekend so I could have been more fun to be around. I tried to constantly disinfect with hand sanitizer as frequently as I could so I hope I didn’t make Anthony sick. Speaking of, I should probably check on him…

P.S. Thanks for coming to visit us over the weekend. Sorry I was sick the entire time.

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They Have Food at Pumphouse

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Ching under Food and Drink.

We met Brian’s bosses and coworkers at the Pumphouse before the hockey game on Friday night. Apparently they serve food there. I had no idea. I guess I’d never been there that early in the evening before. The few times that I’ve been there has usually been late in the evening and I’m pretty sure their kitchen was closed by then, which explains why I had no idea you could actually eat there.

I didn’t get to taste the food because Brian and I had dinner at Sabor beforehand. The food looked pretty good, though. I might even consider eating there some time.

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Our Dinner at Sabor

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Ching under Food and Drink.

Brian and I had dinner at Sabor before the hockey game last night. Brian was a little disappointed that the fried plantain chips weren’t fresh. I had to remind him that when the chips are fresh they’re usually greasy so it’s not so bad that these are completely fresh. Besides, they’re probably fresh. Just not hot off the fryer.

Brian had the fire roasted chicken with mashed potatoes and the fiery habanero sauce.

I had the adobo pork, which is what I normally get. It wasn’t a good as it usually is, but still tasty. It had been a while since we’d been to Sabor last so I asked for a variety of sauces.

I tried the mango sofrito, chimichurri, orange poblano (which is like the old orange garlic mojo), and the red wine mole. I normally like the orange garlic mojo, but last night I liked the red wine mole sauce best.

Sabor is good, but it’s just not the same since Chef Jason hasn’t been the executive chef there. They used to be so awesome. I guess you can’t expect everything to stay the same after five years.

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Calzones at the Phelpi

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Ching under Life.

When we watched The Walking Dead at Cory and April’s last weekend, April set up a create-your-own calzone station for us. It was really cool.

There were a variety of fillings to choose from.

Here’s Brian making his calzone.

Here’s Cory making one.

And April. We all just took turns at the calzone creation station basically.

After we made them, the calzones went in the oven for about 10 to 15 minutes and they were done. They didn’t need to be in the oven long because all of the fillings were already pre-cooked. This is my finished calzone. I wrote a C so I could identify it when it came out of the oven.

The calzones were yummy. Great idea, Cory and April!

Gavin modeled is plethora of hats for me over dinner.

I didn’t take a picture of him each time he came out with a different hat because he had too many. Apparently, Gavin loves hats. The best part is that he can remember where each hat is from or at least the first time he wore them. What a smart kid!

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Saturday Afternoon at Bullseye

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Ching under Family, Things to Do.

We had a great time shooting with our family and friends at Bullseye.

I got to shoot Chad’s 44 magnum. Apparently it’s the same kind of gun that Dirty Harry uses. It’s big, scary, makes a loud noise, and has quite a recoil.

Kim is a crack shot. I think it’s all of her Black Ops experience. LOL.

Brian shoots with a style all his own.

I liked that we had shooting lanes adjacent to one another so it was like having one wide shooting lane. We all got to go from lane to lane to lane just shooting various guns. Definitely more fun than shooting the same gun the whole time.