Busy week! Long-ish update...

NOTE: I started this writing this post on Sunday, but I finished it today.. sorry if I confuse you.
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Phew, I'm glad that week is over. You know, when I had a M-F job, Friday was always the day I considered the last day of the week. Now that I don't have a job, and EVERY day seems like a Friday, I have to go by the day that my class work is due (Sundays). One more assignment and a quiz and I'm home free. And I'll say what I say every Sunday...this week I will not procrastinate and wait until the day before homework is do to start it. Hehe, wishful thinking.

Let'seeeeeee...finally got my ass back into the gym, went to Ru Yi, Naked Tchopstix (again!), One World Market, Saigon..yeah, it was definitely Asian food week. Of course we never get tired of it!

Earlier in the week Dillon had to go get a haircut  (his sister is a great hair stylist) and she recommended that we check out Ru Yi which is located in the same strip mall as her salon. I ordered a rainbow roll, spicy tuna (that was actually suppose to be our appetizer), and Dillon ordered the teriyaki Chicken. Even though the serving of teriyaki was quite large, it wasn't very good. The chicken was super over cooked, tough, and some parts burned. The sushi on the other hand was really, really good. If we are ever in Avon again, we'll stop here instead of Sushi Club.

Teri-YUCKY chicken, rainbow roll, spicy tuna

Saigon is my new favorite Vietnamese restaurant. The pho is so good! Especially after a long, hard, work-out. Okay, so it was only aqua Zumba AND it was for old people...I still got a work-out. :P Any way, I got pho tai and Dillon (who is sooo predictable in his food choices) ordered ginger chicken. Someday I will get him to try something new....

pho-king delicious! hehe..

Naked Tchopstix was a spur of the moment decision on Friday night. I'm surprised I convinced Dillon to even go to Broad Ripple on a Friday night. Of course it wasn't hard to get him excited to go. SUSHI, turns us both on. So does unfiltered sake. Ozeki nigori sake... oh, I could have had 3 bottles. Unfortunately, one small bottle is $15.99. Actually everything we ordered was kind of expensive. The tuna carpaccio was $9.99 and you only got 4 pieces of thinly sliced tuna w/citrus juice squeezed on top. Our rolls weren't over priced, but our bill still came out to $74.89.

No food pics...we were in the bar section and the lights were turned down super low. But I managed to get this shot before they turned down the lights. OH YER....sexy time...

i think i'm turned on..... >.>

 Saturday was suppose to be devoted to finishing up classwork. I know, I know; I'm a super procrastinator, but I do my best work under pressure! Any way, 6 hours into class work and I realized I hadn't eaten anything all day. There is nothing worse than a lack of food headache. Of course, my go to food is always Asian...and I needed to pick up a few things from the Japanese market so it was win win drive up to One World Market in Castleton. We bought some goodies, but I'll save that for another post.

Did I go for sushi?? NAH.. I got Miso Katsu. OH, nom nom nom. So fattening, but oh so tasty. It was so good, but they gave me so much rice!

Miso Katsu

Cucumber, pile of shredded cabbage, mountain of rice, katsudon, miso soup, and miso sauce. It was really tasty, and I wish I could have it every day. But it would probably kill my diet. LOL.

If you want to learn how to make katsudon you can watch Cooking With Dog video or RunnyRunny999's video.

Sorry for the long post. I'll try to be better at posting more often so I don't have long ass posts. :P

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Food Porn: Naked Tchopstix

Oh geez, it's been a long, painful week. I haven't been to the gym is a little over the week and I haven't been able to cook. Why? Stupid, old bones always go out of place. Unbelievable sciatic pain. Ufff. But I feel better; the old snap, crackle, pop doc (my lovely chiro sheila...) put me back in order.

feeling MUCH better thank you!

sort of. HAHA. I love photo apps. This one is called PhotoFunia.

So any way, that was not my food porn pic.. DUH. My friend Juliet (also a Jules) and I went to Naked Tchopstix in Broad Ripple. I seriously wish that we had looked around different neighborhoods before settling. But, BR and SoBro aren't that far from us, so I'm not too terribly upset. It would be nice to not drive all the time and be able to just run/walk on the canal. OR be able to stumble home after bar hopping. Just saying.

Naked Tchopstix is Asian infusion food. A mix of Japanese and Korean mainly, which are two of my favorite cuisines put together: HEAVEN! I usually get sushi, but I have had their Bibimbap and it's delicious. I think in the colder months I'll try the Kimchi Jigea or Yukae Jang (Cafe Korea has the best Yukae Jang). Juliet hasn't really had Asian cuisines (she's my little Latina cutie friend) and she went with the Shrimp tempura bento box. I'm so happy that she enjoyed it! I wasn't sure what I wanted, so I just ordered my usual; dragon roll and spicy tuna roll. The spicy tuna roll is not like most you'd have at other restaurants; they use gochu-jang (Korean hot pepper paste) instead of ichimi-togarashi (Japanese red pepper flakes) and personally I like it with gochu-jang. Nom nom nom...

Okee, enough talking....food porn photo time:

oh Naked Tchopstix, you do me right... RAWR.

So we are suppose to go to the Indiana State Fair tomorrow. But I think we are going to need to eat dinner at Naked Tchopstix too. ^__^

Food porn: Bibimbap

So, I just got feed back on my speech presentation on How To Make Bibimbap. I got a 93%; a few points were knocked off because I didn't have references in the Power Point. Oh well. Still an A, that's all I really care about.

If you follow me on Instagram/Twitter/FB you've probably seen this photo:

I probably could have taken a better photo, but I was tired and hungry...and I was just ready to get this assignment done. Also, you'll notice that this isn't really a traditional bibimbap. I didn't use bean sprouts, gosari, spinach, or kimchi. With good reason of course, my presentation would have taken way too long. I think explaining gosari would have taken at least 2 slides. :P You know, even though bibimbap is easy to make, there are A LOT of steps. I probably should have just made a How To Make Bulgogi.

I don't think I'll post the recipe here. But if you want a good how to, check out AerisKitchen's YouTube video.

Epic birthday cake fail

I was flipping through the thousands of photos I have on my phone and I found this from Lissa's (my fiancé's sister) birthday this year:

eeeeek!

First of all, I want to thank Instagram for making this epically failed birthday cake look pretty sexy in photos. And secondly, I blame Dillon. Well, I blame the both of us because we were lazy and tried to make the cake hours before Lissa's birthday party. The cake did not have time to cool, hence the icing would not go on the cake. And the icing got all melt-y. LOL. She still loved it (or was lying to our sheepish faces) because we made it AND it was a rainbow layered cake.

Next year will be better!

Food porn: Naeng-myeon

Naeng-myeon (or naeng myun, naengmyun..) is one of my favorite hot weather dishes to make. It's cold buckwheat noodles (gluten-free!), cold broth, hard boiled or soft boiled egg,and usually cucumbers and kimchi on top. I mom always added chopped red leaf lettuce so I always add that as well. Authentic Korean naeng-myeon will always have beef or chicken based broth. But you can make a vegetarian version; one of my favorite blogs has a great recipe posted here.

add ice cubes to make the soup colder!

Eden Foods 08639-3pack Eden Foods Soba 100% Buckwheat Wheat Free - 3x8 oz.

Food porn: Yo Joy

It never fails, if I'm having a bad day I always head over to Yo Joy. Thank god that they have sugar, fat, and gluten free options! Oh, and how exciting, I have 54.84 yo joy points; 60 points and I get $5 off. I'll have to save that for when Dillon comes home for a visit. ^__^

Tahitian vanilla frozen yogurt, coconut, walnuts, pecan, and blueberries. YUM.

Food porn: Harumi sushi

I'm really craving some sushi right now. OH Harumi, why can't you be here in Indy? Oh wait, I'm suppose to wish I was back in California. :X

Good thing I took food porn pics. Excuse me while I drool and fantasize.....