With only 3 hours of sleep last night and belly full of white wine, I am a little drunkz. So this calls for a photo laden post.

My friend C is one of the best cooks I know. Not only is her food delish, the presentation is unbelievable. When she invited us over for a nice sushi dinner, I knew I was in a treat but I wasn’t expecting a FEAST. Check it!

Shrimp cemetery!

Fish cemetery! Okay, I’ll stop. Isn’t it a beauty?

Tuna albacore tataki, just like how it’s served in the restaurants but much fresher!

Smelt fish

Chawamushi

The dinner also included miso with seaweed,shrimp heads and Japanese mushroom and spicy tuna hand rolls and of course, lots of sake. Check out the impressive HOMEMADE spread!

For dessert, C knows that Hubs does not like cake (Blasphemy I know!) so she prepared creme brulee, prepared tableside by C’s MR.

Some strawberries and fresh mint from the garden, powdered goodness and we’re done.

When we were about to cry UNCLE from fullness, C brings out..you guessed it..CAKE! YAYAYAYAY!!!! It’s her famous homemade chocolate cake roll with espresso cream filling. The cake was perfection, not too sweet,not too bitter, not too spongy and not too dense with just the right amount of fluffiness. I thought I could snag Hubs’ portion but before I knew it, he had polished it in a few bites. So there is hope.he can be converted.

Here is our lovely chef C at work. I’ve asked her several times to marry me but she’s already taken.

Thanks so much guys for such a fabulous dinner and wonderful night of pictionary! Should I post up pictures of our drawings? Skydiving? Macaroni?<———- ??? 

I had my camera, the Hubs had his camera and we both had our iPhones. But NOPE! It did not cross my mind that I should be snappin’ pictures. Instead I was too busy snappin’ and fillin’ my mouth, I did not even realize the mistake that I’ve made until we are doggy bagging our leftovers. DOH!!! I am furious at myself…FURIOUS!

One of the restaurants I tried was an awesome Chinese vegetarian restaurant in the Focus Plaza at San Gabriel.  I’ve been trying to find a replacement for Happy Family for the longest time and now I’ve found it! Sorry Happy Family fans but everything tastes the same there. It reminds me of a “green” Panda Express…blegh.

On a side note, this is my favorite thing to read before bed right now:

There are lots of great recipes in the magazine and I like how it doesn’t take a Food Channel chef to make something from their recipes. I’ve already tried 2 recipes from the magazine. One turn out okay (turkey meatloaf which I will post about later) the other one…not so much. It ended up tasting like a hot dog! I think it was the Dijon mustard and shallots combo.  Here is the picture and recipe of Peppercorn Chicken and Lemon Spinach from FoodTV.com for those of you that want to try it. Let me know if it tastes like a hot dog to ya.

Source: FoodTV.com

This magazine is hard to find though. That’s why I ended up subscribing to it and got the first issue in the mail yesterday…whoopee! Except it was the same issue that I bought already. I HATE it when that happens.