Baked potato with tuna tomato sauce

Dinner on November 26.

I put can of tuna in the tomato sauce. Yes, I was lazy to cook, but it looks good, right?

 

Pork Rib

Dinner on November 24.

 

(clock wise from top) Fried Rice, Shitake Mushroom Soup, Sweet Sour Ginger Pork Rib 

Hakusai Salad

Side dish on the other day.

I LOVE it.

1. cut Nappa Cabbage
2. Sprinkle salt on the Nappa
3. It gets watery, squeeze them and drain well
4. Add Shio-kobu (salted kelp) and some dried chill pepper.
5. Ready to eat, but it will taste better if you want for a few hours.

Baked Mac and Cheese

Dinner on November 20.

My Mac n Cheese has ground beef and veggies (of course). Sprinkle cheese on the top and bake in the oven till cheese melts.

 

Chipotle

Lunch on November 20.

I wish I had Chipotle closer, then I can have it more often. I love Burrito Bowl!

 

 

Chipotle

http://www.chipotle.com/

Japanese tapas for drinks

Dinner on November 17.

Wow, I cooked all 3 meals today! I must have been so hungry. lol.

So I deserve good drink for dinner. I made something goes good with Shochu (Japanese alcohol). Drink is always good after hard work.

 

Edamame

 

Bean Sprout, Carrot and Seaweed Salad

Eggplant with ginger

Spinach Omelet with Enoki mushroom sauce 

 

Spanish Mackerel and Tofu



Ja-Ja-Men

Lunch on November 17.

Ja-Ja-Men is noodle sereved with spicy miso and ground meat on the top. I made it first time and it was good and easy. I think it took only 15-20 minutes to make.

 

French toast

Breakfast on November 17.

This is third time to make breakfast this month. What happened to me?? This morning, I was just hungry for French toast which is very rare. I don't think I will have French toast again in a year.

 

Spoon

Dinner on November 16.

One of my favorite restaurants, Spoon. I enjoyed as usual. I should come here more often! I can stop by just for drink.

 

The Vesper - Plymouth Gin, 42 Below Vodka and housemade dry vermouth : I got this info on FB. I liked it. It's not super dry but it's a good start.

Torched Skuna Bay Salmon : It was new. Salmon was good and I liked the Ponzu gelee. The rice part was a bit oily for me.

Crispy Duck Confit : I loved it. The quinoa was sooo tasty. I would order this for quinoa.

 

Shellfish Pappardelle - lobster, crab, prawns, sea scallop : The pappardelle had all juice from sea food and it was delicious. The kalamata olives work really good.

Duo of Beef : Needless to say, gorgeous.

Spoon
http://www.spoonpgh.com/

Springroll and fried chicken

Dinner on November 16.

I got hungry for spring roll. I have carrots, onions, green pepper, mushrooms and spring roll paper. Yes, I have everything for spring roll. I also wanna have fried chicken. Deep fried paradise~!

 

I need salad too! Seaweeds and Nappa cabbage salad.

Bean Sprout Soup

 

Ta-da, Spring roll and Fried Chicken. 

Okonomiyaki Lunch

Lunch on November 15.

I found okonomiyaki(japanese cabbage pancake) in the fridge. Thank me a few month ago. It was tasty.

 

Scallop cream soup in bread cup

Dinner on November 14.

Someone's favorite, Scallop cream soup.

 

Chicken with ratatouille

Dinner on November 13.

I have veggies too much? Chicken is hidden under the veggies. I was not going to make ratatouille, but I always like to have extra veggies and eventually it looked like ratatouille. So I just call it like that. Boiled potato on the side for carbs.

 

Nappa Cabbage with pork

Dinner on November 11.

I did great job on dinner. It's easy and tasty. Put some Nappa cabbage, bean sprout, ground pork(with ginger, soy sauce, salt and pepper) in pot pan and make same layer again. Put nappa cabbage on the top and add some soy sauce. Put the lid and cook on the stove.

 

Omni William Penn Hotel

Afternoon tea on November 11.

This is the second afternoon tea party with girls. We went to Hyeholde last year. Wow, it's only one year ago? I feel like its a few years ago. So much things went on past one year.

Anyway we had afternoontea at Omni William Penn. I picked Earl Grey and it was great. The afternoontea set was .... ok. I can be back for a cup of tea, but not for sweets.

 

The Terrace Room at Omni William Penn Hotel
http://www.omnihotels.com/Home/FindAHotel/PittsburghWilliamPenn/Dining/TerraceRoom.aspx

Pork Rib

 Dinner on November 9.

I used a pressure cooker for pork rib. hmmm. cooked too much. The pork was too dry. I have to try it again. 

 

Rice Party

Dinner on November 8.

I threw a rice party. Maybe it's not a party. I just kept eating only rice. Anyway, I had side dishes going good with rice. I enjoyed all of them and ranked them.

 

Main dish, RICE! lol

5. Yukari (Shiso harb)

 

4. Shiokobu (Salted kelp)

3. Shiso Wakame (Shiso harb flavored kelp)

2. Enokidake (Enoki Mushroom)

 

 1. Shitake Konbu (Shitake Mushroom and kelp)

Jerome Bettis' Grill 36

Lunch at Jerome Bettis' Grill on November 6.

It was so nice outside today. I went to Jerome Bettis for lunch with my co-workers. It was a bit windy but nice to have lunch at patio.

 

Jerome Bettis' Grill 36
http://jeromebettisgrille36.g3restaurants.com/

Vietnamese style Ramen

Late breakfast on November 6.

It could be called brunch, but I knew I was going to have lunch with my friends, I still called this meal, breakfast. Anyway I had time to make breakfast, I made ramen. It was simple salt flavor. I added cilantro and fish sauce to make it Vietnamese style. It worked!

 

Steak for dinner

Dinner on November 3.

Easy dinner. The baked potatoes was hardest job of this meal. haha

 

Appetizer

Baked Red Skin Potatoes

 

Steak - I couldn't eat much because it's too red for me:(

Japanese Breakfast

Breakfast on November 3.

It seems like I am still hungry for breakfast. Actually I got a package from my mom and she sent me Kobu Tsukudani, which is kelp cooked with soy sauce and sugar. It is kind of preserved food and good for rice. That's why I made rice in the morning. Yes! I am Japanese. It's great if I can start my day with rice and miso-soup. Thank you, mom!

 

Kobu Tsukudani

Yummy!!!!!

Roland's Seafood Grill

Dinner at Roland's Seafood Grill on November 2.

I was hungry for hamburger. I was gonna go somewhere easy like a pub or bar, and eventually I came to Roland's. Roland's is alwats busy Saturday and Sunday afternoon, today, Saturday evening looked kinda slow. Maybe it was too early?

Anyway I ordered, oyster, shrimp, mussel and pizza. I was going to have a hamburgers but Roland's is located in Strip District. So why not to order seafood? Pizza is just for backup.

Well, foods were just ok. I don't love them. I am not sure if I will order the seafood here again. But I like the atomosphere, I can come back for some drinks.

 

Steamed Oysters 

Mussels

 

Beer Battered Shrimp (you can order from 1 piece)

Pizza Margerita

Roland's Seafood Grill
http://www.rolandsseafoodgrill.com/

I made breakfast!

Breakfast on November 2.

It is VERY rare for me to make breakfast in the morning. I mean I sometime make soup at night for next morning. But most of the time, I feel lazy in the morning. I eat leftovers or just fruit. I don't know what happenned to me this morning, I felt like hungry for Breakfast. So I made it. It's not anything special. Bacon & egg, bread, spinach salad and soup(of course its an instant one).