Brian Makes Some Darn Good Flied Lice!

Brian's been expanding his cooking repertoire recently as I have been demanding more Asian-inspired dishes so he came up with this delicious meal the other night.

Rice. Check.

Kimchi. Check.

Veggies. Check.

Egg. Check.

Scramble.

Mix mix mix!

I topped mine with some extra protein and ate it with kimchi on the side. DELISH!

I rubble my hot cooking man! He make-uh lots ubba goot goot food!

:D

Rosewood Hotel Georgia!!!!

Don't have a lot of pics since the ballroom was set up for a surprise anniversary event but this hotel is quite possibly one of the nicest in Vancouver.

In front of the hotel. Right across from the Vancouver Art Gallery

Lobby

Awesome Elevators

Pretty ballroom!

Pretty table arrangements.

Renter be warned, this ballroom for between 100 - 150 people has an 18K minimum spending limit that's without taxes and gratuities included. It's a five star hotel, the location is prime and by golly is it ever luxurious! Brian liked it but did not love it for the price which is understandable because it costs a pretty penny so it's back on the maybe list. Yes, so predictable.

However, the man can cook some mean french toast!

Serious french toast and double pan fried red skinned taters.

Oh my goodness frikkin' gracious! Hands down, this was the best french toast breakfast I have ever had in my life! Brian can be so sexy in the kitchen! Secret ingredients? Egg batter had milk, butter, brown sugar, ground sesame powder, and crushed peanuts! The brown sugar caramelized on the outside of the toast and holy father in heaven was it ever DIVINE!

Anyways, more updates soon, Brian insists we seize the beautiful day! :D

Wedding Food

Friends, family and strangers:

It's Brian here. I've decided to come out of hiding and make a semi-proper post since I have been rather neglectful to this masterpiece of a blog that Gina has created (side note: I improved the layout from the ugly hummingbird theme Gina originally selected to its current glory). What better topic than wedding food to get me back into the blogging world? I'm getting hungry already.

Gina and I are both intense lovers of food and I don't think we'll have too much trouble finding food that we and our guests can all enjoy come wedding day. Although, I should admit that Gina and I are both somewhat conservative in our tastes, with the exception of Gina's love for all food Korean.

Before getting into food we like, I'm going to cross off the things we dislike. Gina and I, in combination, will not eat the following foods... or at least, we won't particularly enjoy them:
-seafood
-mushrooms
-mayonnaise
-red meat (I blame Gina for this... I love beef)

The above list is fairly limiting, I know. BUT let's get back to Korean food. I am thinking it would be pretty cool to incorporate some Korean flavours into the wedding menu--Asian fusion style. I'm not sure how this will work but I love the following things:
-mandoo (korean dumplings)
-korean bbq -- red meat included, sorry Gina.
-dolsot bibimbap (rice, finely sliced vegetables, egg and shredded beef served in a hot stone bowl with chili sauce)

Dolsot bibimbap

LA Kalbi.

mmm. How awesome would it be to have your own bbq at your table? I dunno, maybe not. I want opinions.

On another note, i've discovered that we should probably cross Cecil Green off our list as a possible venue, because the only catering allowed on the site is supplied by the University... no offence to UBC.

I will write more later.



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Gina says:



I WANT THIS CAKE.

Yes, please.