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chicken Fajitas, sans wrap... Tasted amazing!!

No, no one made us any (nor did we have any at any of the gazillion restaurants we frequented). I see I totally missed out.
I asked Mr. if he remembered if he/we ever had any, and he doesn't think so either, at least not anything that was called a Rissole.
We got to reminiscing about all the different food-related stuffs that we scratched our heads upon hearing them uttered by the locals: Capsicum, Flat white, Rocket, Avo, Chook, Lolly, (and so many more I can't remember, LOL). It took us a while to use the food course term Entree correctly.
Not food related, but then there was the time the Kid came home from school in tears because her new friends told her to meet them at the "Oval", and she didn't know where that was. Its funny now, but poor thing was SOBBING, lol. And a Ute. Man, we were clueless in those early months.
Ah, good times, good times.

Tonite's baked item: Chewy Italian Ameretti Cookies!
Ameretti Cookies are by far my FAVOURITE COOKIE OF ALL TIME, and i used to always make the 40 min drive to my fave Italian bakery to get them.
Tonite I made them myself for the first time, and they turned out pretty effing awesome *brushes imaginary dust of my shoulders*.
79 calories each. I ate a whole one.
Here is the recipe I used. If you like almonds, or marzipan, or cripsy-on-the-outside-chewy-on-the-inside cookies, try this out! I reduced the sugar to 1 cup total, added 1/8 tsp almond extract, and roasted some whole almonds of which I pushed one into each cookie as they were set out to cool. Sooooo easy to make and soooooo yum.
https://www.kitchensanctuary.com/chewy-amaretti-cookies/#wprm-recipe-container-10875

Most times I think Mr. is not really listening to me as I prattle away about this or that, but sometimes he reminds me that he is. A week or so ago I mentioned in passing that I miss eating a good bowl of poke and wondered if cauliflower rice would make an acceptable substitute. And tonite he brings home poke bowl take out with cauliflower rice for me. Awwwww, he does listen! LOL.
It was/is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yum, despite the fact it doesn't LOOK picture-ready.
Shoyu salmon, spicy tuna, sweet shrimp & crab slaw over cauliflower rice, with shoyu sauce, yuzu mayo and what looks like every topping known to man (woman). It was unbelievably filling and I while it looks like I barely made I dent, I assure you I ate LOTS. My leftovers are in the fridge and I already declared HANDS OFF to all cuz I wanna eat more later.
BTW, I thoroughly enjoyed looking up all the components in MyFitnessPal to come up with a calorie count (don't judge me).
521 calories for the whole thing. I probably ate 20-25% of it so far.

OMG. I didn’t see that at all. Now I’m glad the piranha is smothered in gravy & I can’t see him. 😆😆
Didn’t anyone make you rissoles when you lived in Australia? They are the best. Basically a meatball but in a rich brown gravy not a Tomato sauce. You just got to get those crunchy bits around the edges. Also great warmed & smushed on white bread with some of the gravy or a little BBQ Sauce drizzled on top. Like a mince roll. Please tell me you had one of those when you lived here.

I had to google that.
meat, good. Fried, good. Mini, gooood.
P.S. I was staring into the pic and that second rissole from the bottom, second from the left started to look like a piranha face popping its head out of the Water. Now I can't UNSEE it.

Made rissoles yesterday afternoon. I used to make them with my mum as a child. Had them with a brown gravy made with all the bits left in the pan. Gotta love comfort food.
 

Today’s salad with baked chicken breast. I should have added avocado, but I didn’t want to cut anything else up. 🙄 I am going to eat the whole thing, even if it takes an hour. 😂

Steak salad. Hubby ended up with about 1/3 of it. It was super yum!

Went a little nutso with some biscotti baking tonite. I couldn't decide what flavour to make, so I made them all.
Lemon Ginger, Cinnamon Apple, Maple Bacon, Espresso chocolate Walnut, Cranberry, & Almond.
I ate an entire Almond one (about 2-3 inches long), plus a taste test bite of the end pieces of each of other five. I have no idea what the calories are but I marked it down as 250 calories.
The majority of these are going out for delivery tomorrow morning. I just leave stuff on their doorsteps, ring the doorbell then run/drive away, 😂

My all time fav cut of steak-filet with yummy asparagus!!

Ate a piece of broccoli before taking the photo. Oops!
1 oz basmati rice, 3.5 oz chicken teriyaki, 2.5 oz veggies. I ate it all! Love when it looks like a huge plate of food, but it's a small desert plate that I used. lol

Beef and Sweet Potato Empanadas. I ate 1 (the one in my hand!): 197 calories.
I can never seem to get the dough thin and uniform enough for patty/dumpling -type applications, so I busted out my Pasta roller/maker...works wonders! Am thinking I could probably use this to roll fondant too 🤔 Hmmmmm..

Yep. My daily salad: 300 calories.
But more beautiful (to me) than the salad is the absolutely gorgeous day it is today. Funny how after months of sub zero temps that a day not quite even in the double digits is a reason to rejoice.
Ate about half before I got too cold and went back inside 🙄

In attempt to address the growing cabin fever in our household (and because it was such a sunny cloudless day yesterday), we decided to take a family road trip to the....Liquor Store. LOLOLOOLzzzz.
But not just any liquor store, but the downtown, lakeshore-facing flagship liquor store for all of Ontario*, natch.
This should have been a pic of both me and the Kid, but Mr. was embarrassed to be seen with us and left the area quickly before we could coerce him into taking our pic (he really should be used to our shenanigans by now).
So yeah, that's me and Snoop Dogg, lololzzzz. Who'd of thunk he had a line of wines, haha. (That cardboard cut out was just screaming to be taken a pic with!)
* <!--- BEGIN Breakout FYI --->
In Ontario, all liquor sales and distribution is controlled by the Provincial government. Outside of small batch breweries/wineries/distilleries, you can only buy liquor/beer from government owned and controlled retail liquor stores. On the bright side though, since the government controls it, the stores were deemed an essential service, and have stayed open throughout pandemic....AND they now have same-day delivery. The only thing though is that they introduced Monday closures province wide, which means that Sundays are really BUSY, lol.
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Your hair cut is lovely @Lynda486 I’m jealous. I’d love to have those gorgeous waves of yours. I have to sleep in plaits or twists like Ms.SSS did to get any kinks in mine. Sigh.
Lookin’ hot @JMJames92.
Spent two days Mother of the Bride dress shopping with a a girlfriend whose daughter is getting married in about 8 weeks. (The wedding was postponed from September last year - thanks COVID.) Oh my God. So difficult to find something that’s not boringly conservative or too young, shirt or revealing that still has a soft beach’s vibe. It’s a beach wedding on a island resort of the coast of Queensland. Think @MarvelGirl25 is on to the right idea with eloping. I haven’t offered to go shoe shopping with my friend though I did find some pretty sandals with brushed gold & silver straps with a touch of fuschia online that might work with the dress.
We ended up choosing this dress. I think we did pretty well.

I also cut my hair off on my sons birthday, just needed a change to get me through it. I took 7 inches off. It looks much better now that I learned to style it.

@ms.sss Oh I didn't know we were doing hair now! Haha. Here is my new haircut 😄

OOTD: Hair Edition, UPDATE.
Bwha-hahahahhahahaha. I fell asleep with my anime Buns on last night, and check out this coif when I took them out this AM. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Just look at that wonderful ms.sss (stands for super, sexy and sensational) figure just dying for her coming out party by spring/summer? The sun always shines brightly in your spirit and attitude regardless of the Canadian winters! Funny... I finally shaved my legs for the first time last week. Hate to admit this, but we had mid-80's last week and wore shorts for the first time in a long time. Headed north on business next week - So need to break out the sweaters, boots and leggings again. Really like winter wear now. Where before I felt extremely bulky with 148 extra pounds and the added layers. Yikes!

OOTD: hair Edition!
A milestone of sorts today...2 years after cutting off my hair into a pixie, my hair is finally long enough to all be put in a bun! Well, two buns...its not quite long enough to put in just one, lol.
Buns were my hairstyle of choice when I had long hair, and the bun "donuts" where my fave bun accessory.
I realize I look like an anime character, but whatevs, my hair is in a bun(s)!

We have a get-together after work tonight.... So I wore one of the sweaters i had bought for the Christmas party (that didn't happen) that came in in January.... hehehe

Ate crawfish last night. Super good!! Only ate crawfish. No corn or potatoes

Lunch from earlier: salad. Doesn't it look even MORE delicious cuz its OUTSIDE?!?! So sunny today I had to take it out back to eat. Didn't last long out there (too cold), but still. Ate it all: 238 calories.
Dinner: mushrooms, asparagus, a slice of bacon and scallops. Mr. was the chef tonite. It was DELICIOUS. Ate it all again: 282 calories (this includes an espresso martini, not shown)

Because I love engagements/weddings, AND I love photoshop, AND I have waaaay too much time on my hands it's pretty sad, I just spent the past hour doing this. LOL.
My original intention was to photoshop a whole bunch of bridesmaids in the background with a bunch of BP avatars as heads, but I'm kinda tired now, Lolololzzzzzz....
Congrats again!