Fleur du beurre

This is just a short post about interesting food & beverages.

This was a strawberry & lime cider (beer) that I had at the London Airport. I know it sounds weird, but it was really very good. It tastes more like soda than beer, but that is probably why it was so good =D

A butter flower that they had at The Hobbit Restaurant in the Garden Grove area somewhere. It was not only pretty, but it was convenient because you could just take off a petal and put it on your plate. Side note: their bread rolls were DELICIOUS!

The Berry Hibiscus Refresher at Starbucks. If you aren't in California or Arizona, you don't have the Refreshers, and it's a bummer for you. They really are refreshing and have few calories. Personally, I think that I liked the Cool Lime one a bit better, but this one was good too. It tastes kind of like Tazo Passion Tea in my opinion, but also different, and it comes with berries in it! Yummm If you're in CA or AZ, you should try it on a nice day when it's either hot or you're simply thirsty.

Groups of egomaniacs

One of my guilty pleasure TV shows is Hell's Kitchen. Yesterday (it comes on on Mondays), I thought about how when a group wins, they're like best friends all congratulating each other and saying how well they work together as a team and how they're the best team ever and they have the greatest teammates, etc. But as soon as they lose, they are at each other's throats throwing all of their teammates under the bus (so to speak) talking about how they don't need their teammates and could have won by themselves....it's really just funny. You see, the chefs are pretty much all type A, super arrogant egomaniacs who are firmly convinced that they are the best chefs in the competition and even in the history of cuisine. They are all really delusional. But the dynamics of a kitchen full of these egomaniacs is pretty entertaining. I really want to go to a dinner service...it *is* in LA after all....

Cheers!

I just came back yesterday from a trip to Ireland, England & Wales. I am way too lazy to actually post all of my pictures (I took 548 photos, so...be happy), so you can see a good number of them if you're my Facebook friend, if not...too bad so sad. =D Here are just a few pictures:

This is from the top of a castle we visited in western Ireland. We took a day trip from Dublin to the western coast. I don't remember exactly where this was, and I don't feel like going upstairs to looking it up, so...yeah.

Also from our day trip in Ireland. These are the Cliffs of Moher.

Again, during the day trip. This is called the Burren (I think). Pretty cool place.

We went to the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin. I don't really like beer, but I decided to try it anyways because you get a free pint with admission. So gross. I will stick with my martinis, thank you. And Irish coffee...or Bailey's coffee...

In London, we went on 2 Harry Potter tours. One in London, and another one that went to Lacock and Oxford. It was really cool to see the film locations and to learn about how they changed things for the film. These are the stairs that the first years took to the dining hall in Harry Potter 1.

YEA!!! So, the main point of the trip was to see HP7pt2 in London. Conclusion: we Americans are much more excited and enthusiastic about HP movies. I didn't go at midnight, true, but when I did go (still on opening day) no one was dressed up, only me & 2 other people had HP-themed t-shirts on...well, it was interesting all the same. I want to re- see the film, though, because the seats were so close to the screen (you know those seats in the front that everyone avoids? That's pretty much the entire theater there, (0r at least in the one we went to)  and the seats didn't lean back. In essence, a bad time to have 3D too).