Friday, May 14, 2010

Zesty-Spiced Friday! Delight (Sandwich)

I want to twist your arms and force you to make sublimely simple turkey sandwich, and I will attempt by telling of of a secret ingredient. It's ketchup. So if you're a fan of the condiment, read on ...




INGREDIENTS (guesstimates):

1 whole red onion (cut into strips)
6-8 gloves of garlics (cut into 4's)
1 pound turkey breast (cut into strips)
1 cup ketchup
1/4 cup honey
1 tspoon paprika
1 1/2 tspoon salt
2 tspoon pepper
2 tspoon hot sauce
2 tspoon olive oil



MARINATE THE TURKEY:

1. Add Turkey to a dish/bowl/pot/whatever works.

2. Add Salt and Pepper. Mix ingredients around.

3. Add Paprika. Mix ingredients around.

4. Add Honey. You guessed it, mix them around.

5. Add Hot sauce and Ketchup, and of course, mix them well.

6. Let it sit for 2-5 minutes (clean up if you must during this period, or if you're in a rush, it'll marinate itself when you move onto the steps below).


DIRECTIONS:

1. Heat on high.

2. Add Olive Oil.

3. Wait until the oil runs freely before adding in Red Onion and Garlic.

4. Stir Red Onion and Garlic evenly to invade the pan's space.

5. Close lid for 1 minute (this cooks the vegetables and more importantly, ensures that you don't go around killing innocent vampires).

6. Open lid and add marinated Turkey.

7. Stir around, again invade the pan with the content within.

8. Close lid, reduce heat to medium, and let it cook.

9. Open lid after 2-4 minutes and check if the meat is cooked.

10. Taste to your liking.


Served with in kaiser, bread, or pita.

Give it some romance and add a simple salad.

Preparation time: 5-7 minutes.
Total: 10-12minutes.

Easy-Pea-zee.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Cafe Mirage

Cafe Mirage, located in Kennedy Commons plaza, is raved as a popular teens-hot-spot, though from the handful of people I observed, is distressingly just 'another crepe place'. Grim-lighted and furnished with discomforting high-tables-to-low-chairs ratio, we experienced perhaps what children forced to the adult table must endure. Discomfort.



The crepes itself (The Fruit Explosion [with 2 ice cream scoops] and the Wild Crepe [with Baileys]) were flirtatious in sight, though as I must be a bag and critique - were both profoundly excessive. I never (not for another Millennium) thought I would criticize an eatery for supplying too much foods, but to support my own opinion, the receipt of crepes from Cafe Mirage stunted my crave for ice creams (perhaps for another Millennium).


Overwhelmed with the voluminous scoops, we suffered a brain-freeze between consuming a lake of ice creams alongside a soft and expertly made crepe, thus an unfair battle that forced us to cut our losses and eat only the crepe itself. Simply put, the presentation enticed the eyes but severely insulted the mouth and stomach.


Overall, I must use a brutal example to explain whether I would return to Cafe Mirage in the future or not. If the world removed all other crepe places and Cafe Mirage somehow braced such an abomination (a world without crepes is not worth living!), I will comfortably switch over to waffles.




Food Reviewer: phuongphann
Location: @ Kennedy Commons (Kennedy & Hwy401)
Rating: 3/4th-FAIL