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Strike 1: ordering a chick pea roti.

Strike 2: ordering it at Indian scale medium spiciness

Strike 3: taking a good walk and long train ride to let it all brew

Now, I suppose none of these factors is enough to create horrible side effects on their own, but combined together the results are just terrible.  All throughout the walk I was feeling like there was a veritable fire in my gut.  When I was on the subway, I felt like my insides were going to explode.  I had to loosen my belt a notch to get some room for bloat.  And now that I’m at home, I swear, it’s been a really noisy night.  This level of gassiness is high, even for someone with a reputation like me.  I mean, wow.

What, TMI?

If you plan on being around polite company within a few hours, I would highly recommend staying away from anything laden with chick peas.  Just saying.

Over the past few days, with time off I’ve been taking the time to cook some interesting breakfasts.  I hadn’t gone grocery shopping in a really long while so I was starting to run out of supplies.  When I looked in the cupboard I found that I still had a box of pancake mix.   I wasn’t in the mood to do pancakes so I decided to mod the ratios to makes some crepes.  I upped the milk and eggs to make for a thinner and runnier batter.  I was trying to figure out what I wanted for some filler.  I checked the fridge and found that I had a few teaspoons blackberry jam left over in a jar.  I decided to dump that in a pan, add some water, and reduce it a little bit to make a syrup of sorts.  So, I cooked up the crepes, spread some blackberry syrup in top and folded them twice.  The result was very tasty.  At that point I decided to redo it for the next morning.

Today, I made the batter even runnier and added a little bit of vegetable oil.  When I looked in the cupboard, I saw a jar of nutella and a can of condensed milk.  I warmed the nutella in the microwave, and opened up the condensed milk.  I cooked up the crepes, spread a little nutella and condensed milk inside, and folded them once.  After cooking three, I plated them nicely, then drizzled the nutella and condensed milk on top.  This was the result:

Yes, they were certainly tasty.  Perhaps the only quibble is that they were a little bit on the sweet side.  Someone on Twitter suggested that I use semi-sweet chocolate instead.  That would have been ideal, right?  However, warming up some nutella was just convenient.  I’m really proud of piecing this one together.  I have some leftover condensed milk crepes in the fridge.  I plan on eating them in a few days.  Two days of crepes in a row is slightly excessive; three is just decadent.

You know, as I was writing last night’s post I was passing in and out of consciousness.  OK, so maybe that’s making things sounds much more dire than they actually were.  I was just really tired and actually had difficulty just completing the entry.  At the bar, by the third Strongbow Erika was telling me that I had the sleepy eye thing going on.  Yeah, I’ve actually noticed that before.  It seems that when I have alcohol I tend to just look fatigued.  I don’t go Asian red, but I just look like I haven’t slept in 36 hours.  I guess it’s true though: I really was tired.  And walking over to Yonge and Bloor after a long night out probably didn’t help me out either.

Anyway, in yesterday’s post I meant to post pictures of the foie gras poutine as well as the remnants of the Belgian chocolate fondue that we shared. Unfortunately, my sleep baked mind just couldn’t manage that.  So here they are.  Yes, they were both awesome and tasty.

I just got home a couple of minutes ago.  I’m really quite exhausted–I was at a bar for 5 hours tonight.  All things considered, that’s something that I don’t do all that often.  I actually spent the evening catching up with a good group of Toronto based members of the 20 Something Bloggers community at the King St. W location of Bier Markt.  Yeah, part of me still says that this, meeting people I met on the Internet, is something that I wouldn’t normally do, except that time and time again I find myself doing it.  I’d like to think that I have a good sense of whether people are total kooks online, and so far it hasn’t led me too far astray.  Especially with this 20SB group, everyone seems to be genuinely awesome.

Upon looking at the menu for the place, I was sort of determined to get something a bit strange and different for my meal.  I ended up getting the foie gras poutine.  In terms of drinks, since we were sitting at the bar I had a good view of all of the different things on tap.  I couldn’t decide what I wanted, so I just named what was on the tap that was right in front of me.  Turns out that was Strongbow Cider, so I stuck with that drink throughout the night.  I honestly didn’t know Strongbow is a cider.  So, when I first tasted my drink and got something fruity I was sort of surprised.  I had 5 pints of that tonight, and frankly I’m still feeling a little bit drunk.  All the same, my typing seems to be pretty bang on, so I’m doing well. The only drawback that I can think of right now is that with the poutine my caloric intake for the day is way off target.  Oh well: one day of less than stellar eating isn’t so bad.