Posts Tagged: holidays

Ho Ho Ho… Merry Christmas! Yet another fun cookout!

My wife and I are hosting a cookout for this Christmas. The usual gang is here including TJ and Rue, our associate editor and long time friend Daniel, and Aki from SlashGear Japan. After unwrapping present (I got a Sanyo Xacti HD1000 from my wife btw) we started the cookout. TJ brought bunch of seafood including shrimp, Mahi, crab, and some other fish we did not get to use. Daniel brought two desert this time, Chocolate Truffle cake with Rum + raspberry and my favorite, the fruit tart cheese cake.

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Aside from boil crab, Satsuki and I prepared our specialty pizzas; the Shrimp Scampi Alfredo pizza and Pesto Crab Pizza. We also made pepperoni pizza because my sister Effie hates seafood (What a picky eater).

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We played PSP, Wii, and PS3 games and then dive into dessert. Aki made cheesecake this time and it was good, but my favorite is still the fruit tart cheese cake Daniel brought.

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So all and all, we had a blast and I am still enjoying the food and wine while I’m writing this entry. If you don’t get what I’m writing on this post, I’m truly sorry as I probably still a little drunk :)

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Merry X-mas to everyone!!!

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What a meal – 4th of July cookout

Well, it was not really a cook out since Texas weather is not very forgiving during the 4th of July. Our BBQ plan was ruin, but my wife came up with an idea of “Spaghettis parties”. She made probably around six different spaghetti sauces. Instead of pouring those sauces on top of my spaghettis, i picked up a hot dog bun with my beer batter sausage and pour those nice pesto pasta sauce and etc on top of it. It tasted amazingly good!

What a meal - 4th of July cookout

After the meal, we went to the park to light up some fireworks, it was fun aside from the fact that we were feeding the mosquitoes. I hope next year it w’ont be a rainy day on 4th of July so we can do a better cookout and camping.

What a meal - 4th of July cookout
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