Daily Shots: Legs

Can you differentiate between my legs and big poppa's legs?

Restaurant: Samurai Japanese Steak & Sushi

For my baby sistar's berfday last month, my family and I went to eat at Samurai Japanese Steak & Sushi. We decided to do the whole hibachi thing since I don't think my parents have ever been to one. Plus, it's close by my house. The restaurant is super nice! One half of the restaurant is for normal menu dining and the other half is hibachi style dining. We ordered some chicken, shrimp, scallops (for who else?) and some filet mignon. I think my favo thing about hibachi dining is the fried rice. There's just something about the way they cook it on the flat top. So yums. Then there's all these tricks that they do that I actually find kinda distracting. The food was all pretty good. We all had a good time trying to catch with our mouths the shrimp that the hibachi chef threw over to us. My dad wasn't keen on it at first but he relented after I kept shouting in his ear. Gosh. It's crazy how fast my sisters are growing up. We're not particularly close but I would do absolutely anything for them. It's funny cos even thought they're super independent, whenever we travel together, I'm constantly worrying about them and being all over protective. I don't let them drink alkie even though I know they can prolly drink me under the table. And in Keystone, I wouldn't let them go up on the mountain by themselves unless the bf went with them. Yes. I'm that person. My kids are gonna grow up resenting me. Hah!

The onion volcano. I love the onion volcano.

Omgaudy this foto cracks me up! Eye contact! Eye contact! Notice the shrimp that is waaaay to the left of his face.

We ordered a green tea tiramisu and it took fooooorrreevvver for it to come out. But when it did, we realized it was prolly cos they were taking the time to fancify that cool little mini-apple.

Gastron Om Nom: Mango Pork Chops

I make all kinda pork chops at home. There's one where I brine it and then sear it and then finish it off in the oven. Then there's like a couple others where I marinate it and then sear it and finish it off in the oven. Sometimes I'll just keep in the frying pan and finish cooking it that way. It really depends on how thick the pork chop is. But man, it's a lot of work searing it and then popping it into the oven. When I say it's a lot of work, I really mean it's a lot more dishes that I end up having to do cos I don't have an oven safe pan and also my dishwasher does not work and even if it did, I prefer to hand wash cos I like to waste water and I don't trust that a dishwasher can get my dishes super clean. I love pork chops. These are called mango pork chops cos it's slightly sweet and tangy in flavor. And cos I diced up some mangos and put them on top. I love mangos.

Placenter: Melange Creperie

I generally like to kill time by reading the Houston Press food blog, Eating Our Words, and by doing so, I find all these places I want to try. And in one of the entries today, one of big poppa's old high school friends family's restaurant made it on there for their bun bo hue. And then there's Melange Creperie. It's a new crepe stand that has erected over on Westheimer and Taft in from of Mango's. I'm not so much a fan of crepes, but they always look so appetizing that I order one anyways. I think it's cos I always hope they'll have this crisp outer edge to it but they never are cos that's not the way it's supposed to be. I am, however, a huge fan and a big supporter of for the Houston food stand movement. Our city council needs to stop making such ridic permitting and ordinance rules. Loosen up so our city can become hip and cool! So I was like, food stand?!? I'm there! Before taking our puppies to the park on Good Friday, we headed out to get some crepes from Buffalo Sean. I got ham, spinach and brie and big poppa got banana and nutella. Nutella is so amazingly good. But I can't eat that kinda stuff for brekkie. And yes I ate meat on Good Friday. Bad Catholic girl I know. Buffalo Sean was even awesome enough to throw in a free fillingless crepe on the house for the pups to share.