Creative Craft Fair

I got this craft fair' pass yesterday and back today again to get some stuff.

My purpose was Golden Maples Farm's jams but I was still wondering this balsamic vinegar store.
Because I bake French baguette everyday, it will be good to have many kinds of balsamic even though I have one already.

It is $17.00 each.

They let you try their original balsamic, rosemary balsamic, and strawberry balsamic.
I got rosemary' because it tastes nice and sweet, but not too sweet as strawberry's, and I have plain one at home. But definitely others tastes good, too.

They sell some stuff in Victoria,

Ottavio's Deli
St Remo Deli
Niagara Grocery



Ok, now the jams. See this lady (called jam lady) has so many kinds of jams.
It was $5.00 each, 6 for $25.
She let me try and all were good. I also wanted to get their red pepper jam.


Jams looks nice with little X'mas lights.

I got...

Happy mint,
Lime curd,
Oh My God (which is marmalade),
Chardonnay,
Wine＋Roses,
Wild Crabapple

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Greentea Opera

I don't havework right now. All I do at home is being lazy.
I even don't want to do baking, but my hus works hard while I'm being lazy.
This is the desserts after dinner to have nice relax time with him.and some for friends...

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Vista 18

Queen Charlotte Halibut $26.00
~Lemon & Thyme Butter ~

Cortez Island Mussels and Clams $14.00

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Sorry I have been in Japan

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9 and dine @Ardmore golf course

35℃...

This is their 9 and dine menu ($29), you choose beef or teriyaki chiken burger, and you make your dish as you like, they are buffet style.

Their fries are awesome!!

and I like this course very much! hard to lose your ball (sigh) and big enough to enjoy.
today, their grass was so fast, though.

I want to come back.... to eat their fries.

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cook st village food court

Cook st village food court finally start getting bigger.
Originally, this food court has Thai, sushi, caffe fantastico and Ethiopian.
As summer has come, they get more food outside as kiosk style.

1 fish 2 fish (fish taco cones),
babble tea,
smoothie,
Ethiopian coffee...

and Jesse's grill, this hamburger shop, opened last week I believe. (July 10th?)
Here is their menu. (Sorry for my ugly pic. I took this with landscape mode by accident.)

Not only burgers, they does hot dogs and potato salad. I was waiting this casual hamburger shop opens.
Very friendly staff.
I ordered hamburger with cheese and mushrooms. ($7) Patty was really big! and soft as MOS burger (good burger chain in Japan), smell of the grill... I love it.

gochisousamadeshita!!

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Changed the picture. Lure and Il terrazzo

Yes, I changed the picture of my blog title.

This pasta is from Il terrazzo in downtown.
I don't remember the name but I remember it was lemon cream sauce and use prawn.
I always order same one.

This is from Lure restaurant in Delta hotel.
I love their view. It was my birthday (Xmas time), I think this place is really good for anniversary staff.

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9 and Dine!! @Royal oak golf course

I didn't expect such a good food for just a 9 and dine at 9 hole golf course considering how cheap they are.


The choice was
Stake,
Pork chop,
Chicken breast,
Salmon,
Prawn,
and Today's special (was Souvlaki)

I got stake and they were so soft and goood, came with the veggie stick. And you can have salad and bread as much as you want.

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5th Street Bar & Wood Fired Grill

Chipotle garlic rubbed pork loin chop $15.00

I wanted to go this pub for a long time but I didn't pick here just because... but I am really grad to be here this time.

Because of the location, I thought they are not very busy restaurant but once I opened the door I notice I was wrong.
It was different world! Full of young to old people, so busy, lively, smells so good!

Of course we had to wait to be seated. While we were waiting, we had beer at their bar counter. (That was the only seat we could stay.)

Mushroom cheese cake $5.00

I wish I could take their kitchen pictures. I just loved their opened wide kitchen. Running fired meats??

Fire-grilled buffalo burger (with Caesar) $10.00

Their foods are so cheap, I don't know how they can keep their food quality. Taste, presentation, quantity, everything is so good.
Gochisousamadeshita!

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Japanese Izakaya Wann in Seattle

American Kobe beef Tataki $8.25
(Japanese people hate to call fake Kobe beef as Kobe beef. It's totally different.)

Sorry for taking break to post Victoria restaurants for a month.

In Victoria, I don't know any good Japanese restaurant. If you are Japanese, your cooking is way better than Japanese restaurant in Victoria.

Oh I shouldn't say that, I have a few restaurants I haven't try yet.
Chikara sushi, in the strip mall, I heard so many people saying they make the best sushi in town.


We went to Wann Izakaya in Seattle at their happy hour. You get $2 beer (ジョッキで）, some dishes are just $4.

Cheese Tsukune $7.25

Crunchy Garlic Rock Shrimp $7.75

Tatsutaage $4.00

Jidori Kamameshi $9.00

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some buns...

Sorry, I haven't been to any restaurans, just baking.
I know it is boring.

Anyway,


Wednesday is gonna be my baking day. Also! golfing day...

"Saint Germain Tendresse", the bakery in Nagoya, I got a really really good brioche from this bakery.
They put custard and chocolate chips between the brioche dough.

I couldn't forget that... and I made it. It doesn't taste even close! I will try with defferent brioche dough.



This Wednesday, I got a friend came over to bake with.
It was the first time to bake buns for her but she did really good and I guess she liked it.

We made some cinnamon rolls and Japanese sweet bean paste buns.

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Hamburger buns, Gratin buns

Today was baking day.
I had some hamburger left overs from last night dinner and I made prawn gratin for my husband's lunch.
Sometime when I have dinner left overs, I use them for buns.

Here is direction how to shape left over buns.

Spread the dough and use cookie cutter just like the picture.



And you put anything you want to put inside on to the circle part of dough.



The other part, you spread and make long ring and twist it and make it double.









Now, just surround the left over.
Don't worry if the bottom part and the ring part doesn't touch each other, it will stick when it grow anyway.


This time, I put ketchup and cheese on the top of hamburger.

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Canoe Brewpub

I wish I had one of the keg.

I feel like I hired models to take that picture... They look good.

For my partner's birthday, we went to this pub.
It has nice harbour view, and totally nice and big inside.

As usual, I ordered a humburger. I don't know when I started to have humburger all the time. I used to not. Very tasty one.
And my husband, he ardered something different this time.


I tried to try, but I was full so I don't know but he really liked it.
I still like butter chicken from Sanuk (which already closed restaurant),
but you know, I am Japanese.
I don't know real Indian taste yet. I have to try real Indian butter chicken one day.

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Ridge 9 holes Golf course

This month, we've been to many 9 holes golf courses.
Ridge is one of our favorite small and cheap per3 course. I cannot count how many times we went to.
This is the view from 6th hole.

Lately, my score is getting worth and worth and worth and..... sigh

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breakfast @floyd's diner

I got a friend visitting from Vancouver but I had to work and didn't have time to hung out with her.
All I could do was going to breakfast before work.

I heard some good stuff about this restaurant so we tried.

First impression was it is way bigger than how it looks from outside.
and after that with no moment, I found this place is really funky.


For the breakfast, you can also have lunch menu.

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Fishermans Wharf

I start becoming like Canadian.

I love summer,
I love sunshine,
I don't use umbrella for sunshine anymore,
I don't use umbrella even for rain anymore as well...



To enjoy sun, and have some fishes, we went to Fishermans Wharf.

I got a fish burger @Barb's Place Fish and Chips.

Not only Fish and Chips, there are coffee shop, ice cream shop, hot dogs....
very nice! Now I want to live on the floating house!



I love fish. I used to not.

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Baan Thai

This was the first time to try Thai food in Canada except for my neighbour Thai food court King Thai.


I always eat Phad Thai so I wanted to order something different.

What we had today are...

Por Pya (spring rolls)

Kow Phad Goong

Moo Gratiem (front) and Phad Prig Phao Gai

All of them were so good but I really liked Moo Gratiem. It is just like Pork Karaage.

Gochisousama!

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Tandoori Pork

I was thinking.
I want to make a ham.
I have plain yogurt.
I miss tandoori chicken.
I have a pork, no chicken.

This is the combination of tandoori and Ham.

Here is my tandoori recipe.

200 g of plain yogurt
100 g of ketchup
1.5 tsp of salt
1 peace of garlic
2 tsp of curry powder
2 tsp of chili sauce
1 tsp of cumin
1 tsp of garam masara
some black pepper

all mix with pork in Ziploc and let them stay in fridge for all night.
Cook just outside with very hot pan to keep it juicy. Just outside.
ofter that, bake 25~30 min in the oven.


This time, I made roasted peppers, so I wrapped them and Cheddar cheese. You can also use asparagus, beans for green. I just forgot.


I marinated peppers because I roasted too many peppers.
To make this one plate dish takes about half hour.

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Smith's Pub

I have been there before and I remember I liked their "Smith's Burger".
This pub is one of the favorite pub for my friend couple we went with today.

This time, I picked Lamb Burger. It was good, I still like Smith's Burger better though.
I like the musi they plays, most of them are English Band.
But I hear Devil's Hair Cut today....

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