TIROL

This is another of the chocolates in my Japanese chocolate assortment. This one is filled with a coffee flavored caramel-like filling. Mmm mmm mmm....

Inside BIS*

Witness the inside of the BIS chocolate!! Animal-cracker-like-biscuity goodness...

*This is my post from Saturday, March 31, 2007. This post is late. Uh huh...

BIS*

While at Mitsuwa the last time, I picked up a package of assorted Japanese chocolate from the candy company Tirol. The kind of chocolate pictured above is milk chocolate with a small biscuit (kind of like an animal cracker) in the middle. It is quite tasty. Tomorrow, you'll get to see the insides.

*This is my post from Friday, March 30, 2007. This post is late. Uh huh...

Iced Tea at Work*

Just to confirm for you that I am on a making my own iced tea kick, witness iced tea at work. I have even been making iced tea in some old VitaminWater bottles while at work. It doesn't get much more obsessive than that. It's so great to have homemade iced tea at work, though. Yummy! This is a photo of the cap on a bottle of my iced tea. I made a little monogram for the top so that, when it's in the fridge, people know that it's mine. Also, I was kinda bored...

*This is my post from Thursday, March 29, 2007. This post is late. Uh huh...

Make your own teabags

I have been on a making my own iced tea kick lately. Tonight I took Andrew's suggestion and mixed some green tea with what we had left over of Teavana's Lemon Twist rooibos tea. The rooibos was loose and I didn't feel like fishing it out so I used these make-your-own-teabag things that we got during our trip to Mitsuwa. That's it floating at the back of the pot (the top of the photograph). They operate like those fold over sandwich bags. I haven't tried the tea yet but I'm sure it's going to be very tasty!!

Yogurt with Honey

I had some vanilla yogurt with some honey along with some dried figs for dessert tonight. It was simply divine, although the figs could have been better. Next time we will have to purchase them at Whole Foods and not the local Korean market... I really love the way that the honey looks in this picture!!

Bell Peppers - Indian style

I'm still on the Indian cooking kick. This evening I made these tasty bell peppers in a yogurt and roast chickpea flour sauce. It was a little spicy from the cayenne pepper but it tasted somewhat nutty and smoky. It has lots of cumin seeds; just wonderfully tasty!!! Andrew also made an amazing dish this evening with black-eyed peas and mushrooms. It was very tasty. He used the real cinnamon that I purchased from our Korean market. I love it!!!

Silkworm Pupa*

EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean... Sounds appetizing!! NOT!!! This just creeps me out. This is a can of silkworms that are somewhere in between the larval and adult stage. This can was being sold at our local Korean market. What is more, they were on sale!!! Just 99 cents per can!! You can almost taste it, can't you?! I hope not...

*This is my post from Sunday, March 25, 2007. This post is late. Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Grapefruit*

The grapefruit looks kind of gross, don't you think?! It kind of reminds of some tentacled Miyazaki monster creation...

*This is my post from Saturday, March 24, 2007. This post is late. Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Smarties*

Good old Smarties!! Colorful and tasty... Who could ask for more than little sugar cubes in pretty colors?!

*This is my post from Friday, March 23, 2007. This post is late. Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Dried Apricot

So, now we are going to move to the dried fruit mix that one of my coworkers so generously picked up for me!! This is a photo of one of the dried apricots that was part of the mix. It was tasty!!! Yummy! I do like me some dried fruit...

VitaminWater

I bought this VitaminWater at one of the lunch trucks today. I didn't really think that I was going to like it but they didn't have the green tea that I wanted... I was shocked, though. It was actually pretty darn tasty!!! This is the dragonfruit flavor. To be honest, it is sugar water, and I love sugar :-)

3 Musketeers

One of my coworkers offered this 3 Musketeers bar to me after lunch. I said no at first but was persuaded by her constant pleading... ;-) It has "45% less fat" so I guess that it's fine to eat it...

Peanuts*

And the last nut in my mix is not even a nut at all. It's peanuts. Tasty nonetheless...

*This is my post for Monday, March 19, 2007. This post is late. Get used to it...

Indian Food*

I spent most of my day cooking, doing laundry, cleaning the guinea pig cage and shoveling... What fun?! Well actually, the cooking was kind of fun. I made three dishes from my vegetarian Indian cookbook. I made the cauliflower dish (pictured earlier) again but this time with double the spices but too much salt. I also made a split moong dal soup that was quite tasty and, because of the spices, Andrew thinks smells like sausage. Lastly, I made the dish pictured above. It is stew type dish that has chickpeas, eggplant, spinach and tomatoes. Absolutely delicious!! I can't wait to make some more of the recipes from the book!!

*This is my post for Sunday, March 18, 2007. This post is late. Get used to it...

Green Tea Candy*

A little something green for St. Patrick's Day... Tasty Japanese green tea candy. This one has a tasty gooey milk-flavored center!! It's not Irish, but at least it's green...

*This is my post for Saturday, March 17, 2007. This post is late. Get used to it...

Almonds*

Just when you thought you had enough nuts in your life - quintuplets!!! Almonds. Don't they look tasty?!

*This is my post for Friday, March 16, 2007. This post is late. Get used to it...

Walnut*

Yet another nut from my office nut medley!! (No; I am not talking about my coworkers. They're a different story...) The walnut. Very tasty indeed...

*This is my post for Thursday, March 15, 2007. This post is late. Get used to it...

Arizon Green Tea*

All hail the Arizona Green Tea (with ginseng!!)! Come on... You know you want to...

*This is my post for Wednesday, March 14, 2007. This post is late. Get used to it...

Yogurt Pretzels*

This is my new clump o' yogurt pretzels. It is sooooooo hot in the office that it melted the yogurt coating. I then stuck the bag in the fridge and now I have a uniyogurtpretzel!!

*This is my post from Monday, March 13, 2007. This post is late. Get used to it...

Wasabi Peas*

This is photo of some wasabi peas that I have at work. They are very hot (spicy) and tasty but the one in the back with the eye really freaked me out!!! I swear that Photoshop was not involved in this photo. Sadly, I ate the evidence...

*This is my post for Monday, March 12, 2007. This post is late. Get used to it...