Food and Flower Friday

Good day fellow bloggers! This is The Daily Bone and I'm your doggie reporter 

Chester L. W. Spaniel. 

I am happy to report that the snow is all gone from my yard, and we finally have a few little flowers blooming! 

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with the Saturday Yum Yum Report. But ghostwriter's been working a lot and most of the meals lately consist of scrounged up leftovers. Ghostwriter and Dad did go out to their favorite Thai restaurant Tuesday, the King & I on East Henrietta Road. Here's what they ate:

Fresh spring rolls

Fried spring rolls

Beef Phat Prigkhin

Lemongrass soup

Phat Kee Moun (translation: the cook is drunk)

Sankaya (sweet rice custard)

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They also went to the Yummy Garden Hot Pot Restaurant a couple weeks ago after that big snowstorm. There, you can have a big pot of broth cooking right at your table. (It's great on a cold day!) You add things a little at a time, then scoop them out into your bowl.

The cooking pot.

Along with your pot of broth, you get a platter of basic things to add to your soup, like bok choy, broccoli, crab sticks, rice sticks, fish balls, an assortment of mushrooms, cubes of taro, and a raw egg that you can crack and swirl into the soup. Dad drops the whole egg into his soup and lets it cook in the shell. You can then order lots of other stuff to put in your soup, like thinly shaved meats, seafood, tofu, noodles, extra mushrooms or vegetables, and dumplings. There's also a condiment bar to further customize your soup. Ghostwriter always gets the herbal broth, and adds udon noodles, with oyster sauce and sesame oil on the side. Here are some of the combinations she made with her soup:

Shitaki and enoki mushrooms, fish ball, fish cake, lettuce leaf, noodles

Rice stick, bok choy, taro cube, crab stick, noodles

I think you get the idea

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Ghostwriter say it's a very messy way to eat, but lots of fun, especially if you go with a big family and everyone can share! If you don't want soup, there' s a traditional Chinese menu you can order from too. There's something for everyone!

And now for the food watching themed funnies:

The Other Coast

Take It From the Tinkersons

Mutts

And now I'd like to present a collection of classic food watching photos of my esteemed late colleague Joseph (Joey dog) Spaniel, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge nine months ago.We still miss him terribly! 

Please pass the meat.

Grilled chicken, rice, and vegies. Simple, yet elegant.

Now, THAT'S what I'm talking about!

Home made vegetable soup with beef and barley. Yum!

Pot roast with gravy. Heavenly!

Learning from the Master.

A Zweigle's hot dog with pickle, tomatoes, and corn.

A delicious pear from my back yard pear tree.

Carrying on the tradition.

Oh, and don't worry.  I didn't fall off the couch yesterday.