Cooking at Home versus Eating Out

 

A quick scan of my recent blog posts for typos got me thinking... You might be forgiven for getting the impression that we eat out way more than we actually do??

For the sake of posterity and record, I would say that we cook at home 5 evenings a week and eat out for 2 dinners and 1 lunch (Saturday/Sunday) every week. Every now and then, we might eat out one more night during the week meaning cooking at home 4 times that week.

Today for example, we cooked up the lovely porgy we caught yesterday and made deliciously tasty fish tacos! 

Kaya Eats

Well anywhere that will serve me up a regular old mixed drink in a fancy glass gets my vote!  They use so many pinapples in their kitchen that they also use the empty pineapples as drinking vessels - and indeed will put any drink into a pineapple if you want :)

Hawaiian Pork sliders - delicious!

Tuna Poke Nachos with wasabi aioli - excellent!

Second time for me, first time for Patrick. 10/10 from both of us for Kaya Eats.

 

Bel Mare - la vita è bella

Oysters for our table to share.  

From Prince Edward Island - succulent and luscious.

And then for entree, something new!

I ordered one of the chef's specials, the "zarzuela".  Carribean lobster tail, Key West Pink shrimp, yellow tail snapper in a creamy madras style sauce.  Served with tagliatelle on the side. It.Was.Divine.  DIVINE

Oh, and drinks: I had a spicy margarita to start and then a glass of red wine - Orin Swift Locations CA

 

Saturday Yoga

Made it to the hot room on Saturday morning!

Not without a little push though, if I am completely honest.  On Friday night (yes, maybe after an adult beverage or two), I announced that I would "probably go to 9am yoga class".

Well, come Saturday morning, I think you can predict that I was not feeling as motivated.  Nothing to do with the adult beverages, I just struggle with getting to yoga, once I am there and afterwards of course I love it.

Patrick goes to me, "didn't you say you were going to yoga this morning?".  Well, once it is out in the open, it is very hard to admit that what you said before may have been a little enthusiastic compared to your mindset now.   So I WENT!  And yes, as always, of course it was wonderful.

 

Candid photography

 

So this is a fun photograph! 

One evening last week, we nipped across to our local Brady's pub, formerly Sally O'Brien's and formerly Shanna Key for a very quick dinner and drink.  Am happy to report that there has been a return to form and it is just as good, if not better, than old Shanna Key.  Yay!

While there we met Josh and Jenny.  We have been saying for a while that we must get together with them and Feliz & Bill for a little bite to eat and drinks.  Well literally the day before Josh, Bill and Patrick had been texting and talking about what we could do.  The suggestions that J&B were throwing out just didn't suit Patrick for one reason or another. So Josh, who is an awful slagger (Bill too), takes this incongnito photo of us and sends it to Bill and Patrick saying "thought this guy doesn't go out, huh?"

Ha!

They say a picture paints a thousand words.  But in this case, I don't think so.  This picture does not show how happy we are that Brady's is BACK.  And that we are here and ordering some nice munchies.  And that we have our favourite server with us taking our order.

But still. I do love a candid photograph that immortalizes a moment in time forever.  I do think that digital photography has ruined spontaneity and we have become a society where it is just too easy to "delete" in order to obtain perfection. There is beauty in the "What Is" - perfect or not.

Harvesting Stone Crab

We had the loveliest time last week spending time with visitors to the island.

I thought this photo was cute.  It's definitely a two person job.  I drive the boat to the trap, Patrick hooks it and pulls it up (heavvvvyy!!).  Then Patrick picks out the crab with the tongs and passes to me.  I hold it carefully so that it can neither cut or crush my fingers with it's claws.  Then remove the one claw and throw it back to the ocean to see another day - and to grow back it's claw!!! How cool is that.

 

Kaya Eats

Lovely afternoon spent by myself with a Spicy Margarita (obsessed), tuna nachos poke and an amazing *book.

*I am at the part of the book where she has just had Brendan Behan's baby.  Yes, really, this book is pure mad.

This lovely afternoon was spent in Kaya Eats and I thoroughly recommend it.  Their fish tacos contain half a pound of mahi mahi!