MOar fooooood!!

fish tacos!!!!!

 the fish
1 egg with some soy sauce
italian bread crumbs (with herbs and spices and italian romano cheese)
and the fish is some white fish?? i dont know...haha! some frozen fish...

salsa
tomato
red onion
juice of 1/2 a lime
S+P

cole slaw
shredded cabbage
fresh dill
herb and garlic dressing

whole wheat tortilla
sliced green pepper
siracha hot sauce!

WHAT DO YOU GET? delicious fish tacos!!!!!! i've never made fish tacos before..and i must say, even i impressed myself! :) maybe this will help me pass time in calgary.. just thinking of some amazing foods to cook since i can't really go out to eat like i did in toronto.. looks like my hobby of restaurant hopping will have to be put on hold... until i haz some friends..

... *drools*

counting down...

the days till i go to HK to SOCIALIZE with friends.. :(

as much as i like this.. it's getting lonely!!
i miss my friends! thanks to those that skype with me on a daily/weekly basis :)

Food truck exploration! (Pic heavy!)

 I was on my way to finding Blamwich! Food truck.. but i coudlnt find it and instead, found Perogy Boyz! (they probably beat them to the parking spot!) .. as i walked towards it, i saw the crowd of people! Hooray!!!! I FOUND A TRUCK! Those that don't know.. Toronto has regulations and stuff that don't really allow food trucks :( Shame! Either that or.... I just have been hanging out in all the wrong places!

 So i line up and i'm getting more and more excited!! WHAT DO I ORDER?!?!

 Here's the menu... a bit hard to see but here's a straight copy and paste from their website:

The People’s Perogies 

• Traditional - potato, cottage cheese
• Sauerkraut - potato, onion, sauerkraut
• Mexicali - ground beef, chili aioli, tomato ‘tartar’, green onion, cheddar cheese
• Duck – ground duck, saskatoon berry, chive ponzu
• Carrot Cake – dessert perogy with raisin, carrot, cream cheese, cinnamon-carmel, icing sugar
  
  

Sausages for All

• Kielbasa – traditional pork
• Tijuana Baba - pork, jalapeño, cheddar
• Knackwurst - smoked veal, pork
• Redneck - chicken, smoked chipotle, bourbon
• Cabbage Roll - beef, sauerkraut, rice, marinara sauce
  
  

Baba’s Borscht

beets, cabbage, dill, crème fraiche

 Prices were okay.. about 8 perogies for $7 and a sausage was $4..

 THEN! while waiting for my food, i see ANOTHER food truck pull up right behind Perogy Boyz!!! My head was about to explode here!!

 These guys were called Fiasco! They sell gelato.... and SOUP! crazy combination.. as much as i wanted to try a soup, i didn't have enough cash on me :(

 SO FINALLY! i recieve my food.. and i walk back to my office with it... do i take a sneak peek or do i just open it at the office??  I ended up taking a sneak peek of course....

I got an order of the Traditional perogies which is automatically topped with bacon and caramelized onions... (had no idea..-- not a big fan of bacon for those that don't know..but i won't not eat it.. so i ate it :) ) and an order of the Tijuana Baba sausage! :) served with a side of SPICY (and delicious) mustard, and sour cream!


VERDICT: of course i loved it! I love any food that comes out of a truck!! only because i've never really had anything other than fries and a hot dog from a truck... Toronto.. GET ON THIS!

didn't realize it was this bad!

Freakin insane.. i didn't realize it was THIS bad..



was watching the news.. and this explains why i saw a road block while walking home today....  and they're apparently blocking access to the downtown core...(cars)... watching the news tmr morning should be interesting!

:)

yep!

holy crap

HOLY CRAP i need to see them

Calgary the REAL windy city!

Holy crap.... It is unbelievably windy in Calgary today.. i mean, it was like this during the week too but not like this!!! i chose the wrong day to walk around downtown!! But nonetheless, here is the video proof....




and another video.. that's even crazier!

Sunday stroll

So.. Sunday.... I returned my car back to the car rental shop.. was nice having a car.. makes me more excited to think about when i have my own car shipped over..

I walked along 17th Ave... nothing was open of course because it was 10am.. and i th ink things open around 12 pm on sundays.. so i chilled at Starbucks for about an hour or so.. I shouldve brought a book!! but it was nice just hanging out alone...

Afterwards, i headed over to London Drugs which is kind of like a miniature wal-mart or an expanded shoppers with a lot more electronics and TVs.. (we don't have that in Toronto..at all and this was requested by some friends.. LOL and yeah nothing special..but because i'm a girl, i spent easily 30-45 minutes here just browsing hahaha!



and then a little surprise video...


how does that happen?! that's so gross!

T&T!!!!

So... as mentioned in my earlier post, i went to take a drive up to T&T (a chinese supermarket) and loaded up on some familiar chinese groceries!!

I swear to god.. i literally poo'ed myself when i saw the sign pulling into the parking lot....

You can only imagine how i felt when i walked into the little mall.. and saw T&T!!!! my brain was exploding!! i was so happy!! You must be thinking.. wtf?! why are you so excited??  I think it's simply because it's something that didn't feel so foreign to me.. It reminds me of home.. and it makes me feel comfortable.. :) Seeing stores like H&M, Aldo, Forever 21.. etc..those stores don't make me feel the same way because they're available even in the states.. so stores like that don't make me feel like i'm at home..I've only ever been to  T&T (for me at least) in toronto.. so therefore... HOME!!!!

 After walking up and down every single aisle (not even kidding).. my little rolling basket was FULL.. can't really tell from the angle, but i was playing a balancing game with the pack of noodles there!

All of my groceries laid out nicely :) I got some goodies like my yakult drinks...my chiense bakery raisin buns.. and edamame... mmmm yummy.. and dumplings!! and rice noodle rolls.. ahh.. i miss my mom's cooking!

and it's a white guy cashing me out... at an asian supermarket... a little strange..but a job's a job! i salute him!! at least he doesnt have to deal with Toronto asians... they can be feisty.. people here seem to be very calm and... not crazy..

ME + CHINESE GROCERIES + CHINESE PRICES = HAPPINESS

Saturday so far....

So! It's the weekend! yay! feels good.. work has been really busy.. (but really liking it so far).. I don't know if i even mentioned ever what i'd be doing..

I'm here to train people on a technology called SharePoint... customized and basic training.. thats all in a nutshell!

Anyway, i rented a car and decided to drive to the mall :) YAY! retail therapy! I rented a Ford Focus.. lol :) It's down the street from me so it's pretty easy to get there...  I have some SHAKY videos for you to watch too...

so after i finished shopping... i drove home!



So i'm at home now.. its about 4:30pm.. im going to go to T&T to go grocery shopping!!! IM SO EXCITED to see all these familiar chinese groceries!! :) Will maybe do a video.. depending on how many people there are.. but i'll take some pics maybe!! will post later!

My Dinners so far...

So, I don't know if anyone is interested, but I've been taking pictures of my dinners and sending them to Jeff because.. well... i always do :) I don't really know why...or if he even wants these emails..but I'm making him look at them anyway! Since i have these pictures... and i'm trying my best to keep this blog entertaining (for the few that follow), i figured, let's post for the public!! I am in NO WAY a professional cook (even though i think i am ;p ) and am always looking for ideas.. that are easy of course..and healthy! These are not every night's dinners.. so here are the ones i've captured..

This one below is an extremely lazy and i got in from the airport late this night.. so i went to the grocery store, and bought potato salad and meatballs.... yeah no veggies :( and store bought.. ugh.. Wasn't horrible...but the dinner indeed looks sad...

 This one below is actually a meal i cooked this week! (previous one was from two weeks ago). I made some broccoli with onions...cole slaw (random huh..)... and SALMON with garlic and dill.. (forgot about the lemons!) and a side of rice...

 Next night I got pretty lazy.. and didn't really know what my dinner was going to be.. but i ended up making chicken with onions garlic and i just topped it off with cheese... i ended up eating this with tsaziki?? mmmm.... yeah.. and then sauteed some tomatoes.. which was.. interesting..

today!!! was super yummy!!! i made turkey burgers.. i put minced onions and cheese and some dill in the burger...and egg..! and then i cut up some avocado becuase it's slowly going bad... :) and then my roast potatoes... (dill and garlic)

yeah i bought some fresh dill... so i have to use it all up before it goes bad!!

what else should i make???

Inspiration

 

Ain't this fitting? I've seen it a couple times now (if i walk down 11th Ave).. and i just kept forgetting to take a picture of it... but now that i have, i can look at this everyday! :) i love it! I try to change up my route going home so that i don't get bored. but for now, this will be what i look forward to if i do take this route :)

My Walk to work!

Well, not to my tiny Navantis office, but to the client's! So..this video isn't TOO exciting :( and it was pretty dead downtown for some reason.. i swear there's just a tiny bit more people than usual! LOL! Anyway, here's a photo of the city while walking to work:

 

Here is a picture of the street i was walking on.. (Stephen Ave aka 8th Ave)

Here's the view of the city walking HOME from work... already getting dark at 4:30 :( I'm sure it's about the same in Toronto!

 

Alright enoguh pictures, here's the boring video of my walk to work into the core DT area... I'm thinking i'll do another video of taking the C Train next time.. 

MISS YOU ALL DEARLY!

A little more settled in

So if you saw the other vid.. it was clearly a mistake :)

So this one is a video of my place. a little more "lived in".... .. if any of you are interested..

The View!

Here's the view to my place! When there's light out of course :)

What I ate

 

So, so far, i haven't had to cook for myself yet! LOL! pretty awesome.. Sunday night was the only exception i guess... i had to buy groceries so i went to the pre-cooked section and just bought meatballs and potato salad :(  (pictured above)... pretty sad huh? but the meatballs were tasty.. i bought them from this expensive place called Sunterra.. 

Monday night, I took home some leftover sushi from a lunch meeting (that i wasn't part of) and ate that... nothing crazy.. but FREEEEEEEE!!!!! 

Wednesday night, i was invited by my boss to go out to dinner with them since they were in town.. so of course i can't deny free!!!!!!

We went to a place on Stephen avenue called Divino.... some italian place.. pretty damn good.. i ordered the Veal chop... came with some veggies that were a bit too bitter for my liking....and this ricotta cheese spaghetti.. i got called out by one of the people i had dinner with (2 VP sales guys and my boss from toronto.. and 2 senior sales guys from Microsoft.. one guy looked like he was from dragon's den)... and the guy that looked like he was from dragon's den was liek:
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?? TAKING A PICTURE?!"
i was like "yes.......................... "
" OH! i have a friend that does the same.. always likes to show off what he ate"
"haha yeah.. i normally get teased by doing this... but i like to post little reviews online..."

that was a bit embarrassing.. but.. oh well! :) nice guys...

tonight, meeting with more toronto navantis folks and having dinner with them as well... YAY!!! but my overpriced groceries better not go bad...

Where i work...

SO!, the reason why i'm here... is for work! so why not let you all see what my workplace looks like..

i retreat here when i'm not at the client's office..which i'll do a video of too if i ever get the chance to... one of their office locations are freakin amazing... enough of that ..

for now, VOILA:

Calgary!! I'm moved in!

SO! what you've all been waiting for!! and when i say ALL i mean ALL 2 followers of my blog :)

BUT i've finally moved my stuff into my place here in Calgary.. yes i still can't believe i'm actually living here!! in a different time zone! :( (MDT -07:00) that's code for mountain time and that i'm two hours behind!

OK so i know i might sound a bit weird but i am pretty congested right now and it's been annoying the crap out of me :( I had to train a class for an hour today with this... i feel like my nose and throat is just filled with 10 gallons of phelgm! AND I SUCK at coughing it out!! In my mind i think that if i swallow it, it'll disappear... :( ok enough about that...

So i did film this at night after a dinner with biggie! yay!! my first visitor!!! :) 

So yes we did go to Saltlik :) and it was awesome.. a lot of food and he really wanted to try the lobster butter soup... mashed potatoes and as good as they look, they weren't that good and NO we didnt finish it.... :) swear to god!

i walked home that night.. and it wasnt that bad.. streets were quiet of course..but i expected that.. the scariest part was just walking to the entrance of my place with that stupid drop in center right across the street :( what can i do! anyway, it's now 12am.. and i have to get up at 6am to get to the airport to make an 8am flight! back to toronto i go!