I don’t know why I just suddenly thought about this guy. In 2002, before I became a mother, I was working in downtown Seattle and every day, sometimes more than once, I would go with one or more of my co-workers to the local Starbucks and get a grande non fat no whip mocha. As we were there so often, we got to know the baristas fairly well, and they knew us and would often have our drinks made before we even ordered them. It was great service.
One of the guy baristas, we used to call Jawbeard (but not to his face of course), as he had one of those wispy beard things just on his jaw. We didn’t know his real name. However, we were excited to read in one of the local papers, that he had won “Seattle’s Sexiest Barista” award, and that his name was Matt. My friend and I pinned his full page photo up on a cubicle wall.
When my brother and I were little, my mother used to give us a teaspoon of Maltexo every day. It is a malt extract which has a similar texture to thick honey or molasses. It is full of “natural goodness” and my mother thought it a good supplement to our diet, seeing as we didn’t eat anything.
I recently bought a new container of it mainly for my boys. And I have some down with some sort of cold or flu so tonight I had a teaspoon of it. Gosh, it tasted good and brought back so many nice memories of our childhood. The boys like it too – they only get a little under 1/2 a teaspoon at a time though.
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Yes, we do have it here in New Zealand, but I kind of miss Halloween in the States, when everyone dresses up – adults and kids – and all the parents bring their kids’ leftover candy to work the following day.
I also miss the chocolate covered marshmellow things sold at drugstores during Halloween, Valentines, Easter and Christmas. One of my favourites would have been the Orange Marshmallow Pumpkin by Russell Stover. It was recently reviewed here. The reviewer did not seem to be that keen on the Orange Marshmallow Pumpkin but at Halloween, I couldn’t get enough of them!
There is also a review of the Russell Stover Vanilla Marshmallow and Caramel & Marshmallow pumpkins which I also liked a lot, but just not as much as the orange one.
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The Moro bar has been around forever, or at least as far as I can remember, and maybe a year or so ago they issued a variant of it, called Moro Gold. And the other day, I saw another variant at the supermarket. This one is called Moro Black and what caught my eye is that it uses dark chocolate instead of milk. Yum!
The Moro Black is described as a “dark chocolate coated caramel and nougatine whip with raisins and peanuts.”. It was pretty good, but I am not that keen on nuts invading my chocolate bars.
I just checked the Wikipedia entry for Moro, and I forgot to mention about the Peanut Moro, which I have never tried, due to what I imagine will be an overabundance of peanuts.
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Yesterday Domino’s Pizza had a special on for pizzas with a classic crust. You could buy as many as you wanted to for only $4.90 each so long as you went to pick them up between the hours of 11 am and 2 pm. We got 6 – two Godfather, two feta veg, one margarita, and one capricciosa. YUM! The boys love pizza too, and had it for lunch yesterday, will have it for lunch today and probably tomorrow too. It is funny how they will eat any veggie at all, as long as it is on a pizza base covered with cheese.
My Dad is on a low fiber diet at least for the next 3 weeks and some sweets he can have are marshmellows and meringues. We bought him some marshmellows from the supermarket, but the store meringues are a bit dry, so I decided to whip him up a batch myself.
I followed Nigella’s recipe for Wedding Meringues from her “Feast” recipe book. I actually halved the recipe and still ended up with a ton of meringues. They tasted pretty good – they were nice and gooey and marshmallow-like on the inside.
And my Dad and Mum were impressed, and that is what counts, right?
Sunday night, we were invited to dinner by our friends A and S. S made homemade pizza for her little boy, so our boys shared that, and us adults got takeout from Hell Pizza. L ordered our standard – spinach, capers, shrimp, calamari and Camembert. A ordered Wrath without the jalapeño peppers.
For dessert, we had strawberries, and ice cream – a hazelnut one from Movenpick, and a chocolate chip one from Talley’s.
S is about 14 weeks pregnant and is just starting to show a small belly. She is due in early April 2008, so about the time of N’s 2nd birthday.
BTW, the boys loved the carrot pasta the other day. 
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At our local Tofu Shop, I bought some carrot pasta, manufactured by Yupin Foods. J has asked for spaghetti tonight, so I thought I’d give the carrot pasta (spaghetti) a try. It is made from wheat flour, carrot juice, water and salt. I just don’t know what sauce to serve with it.
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We went to this Japanese restaurant the other night, and ate so well! The one thing I tried that I had never tried before was takoyaki. They looked like this:
You could have them with either squid or prawns inside and we chose squid. They were delicious.
We also had miso soup which we haven’t had since we left the States – we used to eat (drink?) it all the time there. L made it at home even. Yum!
