Another Breakfast Ala Leftovers

Last night we had an Easter Eve Dinner at the "in-law's".  (I'm not used to that & rather refer to them as Kelli's parents.)  The dinner was a roasted turkey with stuffing & gravy.  We came home with some leftovers.  I know that I need to use up leftovers right away or it will just end up being lost in that refrigerator black hole for days, weeks or some cases months!

I decided to make a creamy spinach based casserole type of breakfast because I need to be so fancy!  :p

Threw all the stuff in a buttery pot of a little browned flour, finished it with some half & hald and put it in our finest Corelle bowls.  Topped it with a little mayonnaise (I made the decision to buy a 3 pack of Best Foods squeeze bottles from Sam's, the saw that they expire in November!  So *warning* lots of mayonnaise to look forward to!  ;> ).  I don't have my kitchen torch here in the new digs yet so I popped it into the toaster oven set to broil for a few minutes.  Not quite as effective or quick as a kitchen torch or salamander, but oh well...

Delicious!  Easter Brunch!

Anyway, we started using our new little cups & saucers for my single americanos.  Perfect size, makes me feel so Italian.

Happy Easter!

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YoonCy Korean BBQ in Kapahulu.

Last night after a long day of work, I stopped by our favorite Korean take-out restaurant to pick up dinner.  YoonCy Korean BBQ is located in the Safeway Shopping Center at 888 Kapahulu Avenue.

We always get a Meat Jun plate here.  We really love the Meat Jun they make.  This time I also tried the Spicy Fried Chicken plate.  Both plates were delicious, but the fried chicken wasn't spicy, so either it was regular fried chicken or for those that don't like spicy food, don't be afraid of this one.

The owners/workers here are always very friendly.  Great service is always a good thing, but at other places I have almost come to expect not to receive satisfactory service as a norm.  Anyway, you can count on friendly & good service when you visit YoonCy.  :)

I like restaurants that have nice printed menus that I can photograph easily & post up.  I've decided that it's a great way for me to check their menu to phone in an order without carrying around or looking for the printed menu.  I can just search my own blog for reference. 

As usual, if we get ourselves 2 regular size portions, we'll have leftovers.  The next morning I make us some Bi Bim Bap for breakfast.  It's always so tasty! 

I've downloaded Pic Say application for Android & have been playing with it.  You'll see a couple of things I did with the leftovers photos.  I'm using the free version now & it seems really good so far!  Give it a try if you're an Android user.

Those of you who follow my tweets may have noticed we stopped by a certain other Korean BBQ place a few days back that caught bad headlines in the local news the past couple of days!!  Thank goodness our food was OK that night!!  :P it was good.  I hope that place is able to make a good recovery from that incident.

For now, we know we can always count on YoonCy!

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Revisiting Mana Bu's for Musubi.

On Wednesday morning we had the chance of being in the area of Mana Bu's just around their opening time of 1030a.  Since it is a rare occurrence for us we stopped by to pick up several musubi to have for lunch later.  If you're familiar with this little mass producing musubi shop you'll know that if you don't get there early enough, selection will be slim & often most varieties sold out.

This time I chose a Konbu, Shiso & Kinpira Gobo Pilaf.  They ranged in prices of about $1.30-$1.70.  Very satisfying!

I'm not one who would normally go out to purchase musubi made by someone else, but in this case I have to say the occasional splurge is well worth the cost.  I cannot imagine trying to make myself 3 different varieties at home.  It would not make much sense.  A visit to Mana Bu's & I could have a dozen or more variety of musubi to eat!  They also have multi grain rice varieties too!

I posted on my blog about Mana Bu's a couple of years ago.  Here's the link to read that post.  http://nakama-m-photos.blogspot.com/2008/10/mana-bus.html.

The other dish is a pork eggplant that we picked up from ANOTHER PLACE down the street.  I wont mention the name of the place, but it was JUNK!  The eggplant was inconsistent with raw, firm bitter tasting pieces mixed into overcooked mushy eggplant pieces!  It was also too salty tasting like it was just soaking in an unbalanced  shoyu based sauce.  Anyway, I don't like this "deli" down the street and haven't forever, but we just decided to give it a try again.  I don't know if I'll try again in the future.  Probably not...

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