Chubby canary = banana

Costco is not only good for bulk purchase, it is also ideal for people watching, regurgitating and inspiration.

Take the jaundiced canary below. Against Don's better judgement, I took a quick snap of the subject (no flash required due to her sunny getup) so i could properly consider what the hell was going through her mind when she left her/the home that morning. Perhaps she had a fruit salad party to kick on to after? My bet was on her hiding out with the 5kg butter logs in the next aisle and surfacing after hours to have her way with the caramel popcorn and pecans (and very possibly the blue cheese as well). Maybe she just wanted to test her new seamless bra and panty set - no ROI there.

Whatever the reason, she inspired me to bake banana choc-chip muffins and for that, her unsavory fashion sense can be momentarily excused. I can't find a soft version of the recipe so i'll type it up when i get a moment. To die for.

Fat cows are juicy

We made teriyaki steak the other night.  It was freakin delicious but my lord was there a lot of FAT. We, or rather I spent more time cutting out the chunks of lard then actually eating my meal. Don says the fat bits are what make it so tasty and i should shut my eyes and just savour it. I was so excited by the taste i neglected to take a photo of it. Given that we bought a 5kg log of the stuff last week, i can see it popping up again on the menu shortly.

The recipe had 600gm eye fillet steaks, 2 tbs mirin, 1 tbs dry sherry, 1/4 cup soy sauce and 1 tsp caster sugar. We quickly fried up the steaks ensuring they were still a bit bloody and then shook up all sauce ingredients, threw them into a pan with two chopped up spring onions, waited til it thickened and then threw it over our steak. Yum-O.

These were the cut-off bits

Where's the coast guard?

Had a flick through my Argentina pics and tripped over this one. Now this lady surely knows what an alfajor or 5 (per day) is.