Pegasus redux

See our original post here.

We didn't get quality photos of the entree during our last visit. So here's to making it up...





The food was great, as always. The only complaint that we would sometimes have is about the service. Sometimes, the service is great. Sometimes, you have to ask for the bread. We'll be back.... eventually, maybe.

Next up, the Parthenon.

Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day

This is Paula Deen's Easy Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe. We've made this many times, and it's simple and tasty every single time. However, you must be warned, this recipe is not suitable for those with high blood pressure or coronary artery disease because of the butter and bacon.



This is the perfect celebratory meal for St. Pattie's Day. Bottoms up!

Fun with Slow Cookers

We had a busy weekend.


First try - Beef and Beer Stew. We choose Guinness for the beer and the beef turned out very flavorful. The sides were creamed spinach and sweet potato fries, which provided nice contrasts to the meat.


Second try - Pork Barbecue. This came out really good too. We used Famous Dave's Sweet & Zesty BBQ sauce.


Asparagus is one of our favorite sides. This was sauteed with olive oil and a splash of vinegar.


The sides assembled. In addition to the asparagus, we had whole grain rice and macaroni salad.


The finished product

Mitsuwa

Normally, we tend to avoid food courts like the plague. However, we were willing to make an exception for Mitsuwa. The food court has about 5 separate booths along with an ice cream stand and sushi bar. Out of the 5 booths, one stand served Korean fare, one stand served Chinese fare and three stands served Japanese fare. This day, J set his heart on ramen and I craved bibimbap.

100 E. Algonquin Road,
Arlington Hts., IL 60005
(847)956-6699
9:00AM - 8:00PM


Mitsuwa's liquor shop with a large selection of sake. It's too bad we aren't really into sake.


These food court displays are like window shopping, for food!


There was so much stuff to look at.


Today's special - juicy pork cutlet using top quality Berkshire for $8.95


Today's special - Mixed Vegetable Soba for $5.00


So many choices... still taking it all in.


It really took us a good long while to decide


In addition to the ramen, the small katsu-don set for $3.90 caught J's eyes.


I found my selection. Apparently, bibimbap in a stone bowl is called dol sot.


J's small ramen, which he enjoyed and reminded him of Naruto


My dol sot, I like the stone bowl because it keeps the food warm longer and makes the rice crunchy


My dol sot all mixed up


J's small katsu-don set as is


I rearranged it and opened the lid. He also liked this set with the exception of the egg on top of the katsu and the miso soup. The egg was runny and the miso was bland.

Overall, we quite enjoyed this experience.

Famous Dave's Bar-B-Q

1101 East Dundee Road
Palatine, IL 60067

Phone: 847-202-2213
Fax: 847-202-2214

Once in a while, we just need BBQ! You've probably seen these places around. It's decent enough, I suppose.


Sauces! I have a thing with sauces and since Dave's has a nice selection, we visit often. Our favorite, this time around, was "Sweet & Zesty".


We were frakkin' starving. Wings for appetizer. It wasn't really anything special, but like I said, frakkin' starving!


Ribs, ribs, ribs sated our hunger. Although this time around, the ribs on the end were really dry and tough.


Not from Daves's... we finally got that table-top tripod!


It looks... silly, hopefully useful in the future endeavors.

We received a little constructive criticism. Apparently, our photos need more commentary... ... ... FINE!

Made-Over Deep Dish Brownies

I got the recipe from here.

A little set-back today got me really, well, set-back, today. Nothing starts me back up like a little baking and sweets.





It didn't taste exactly like the brownies that I used to make with all the sugar, butter and eggs, but it wasn't bad. It tasted like chocolate-y bread, in a good way.

I really need to get that tripod from best buy. Having a little equipment malfuntion =/

Hawaii

Again, I didn't actually get to go. Looking at these however, I'm just amazed at the selection of seafood available in Hawaii. Look! It looks so fresh and colorful... like the top quality produce that you see on cooking shows.
























This is what my father ended up purchasing...


And this


And this too


The purchases were brought to a local restaurant to be cooked...


Don't you look familiar


Cooked with soybean paste


Veggie is good for you


Other misc photos from this trip




I love shrimp rolls

Can you tell my family has a thing for shrimps?