Chocolates of Iceland - REX Bar

First up that we tried was a "REX" Bar

Basically, it was if a plain wafer cookie and dark chocolate got together and had a baby. It was actually really yummy since it wasn't too sweet and the wafer gave it some good texture. Matt didn't care for it as much, but then he is a sweet tooth guy and I've never tasted anything "too sweet" for the man with perpetual cavities!

Taste of Home

Ok... so I know we haven't been away that long - mere days in fact; however, we haven't been eating out for every meal. In fact, we have been avoiding it since since we find food here expensive (it is an island... called Iceland even.. who would have guessed?) and therefore we have been making several meals in our small wee kitchen at our apartment hotel.

A couple of nights ago, we made Icelandic Mac & Cheese! Complete with authentic Icelandic Hot Dogs. In case you weren't aware, hot dogs are practically things of legend over here (close to some kinds of sausages in Canada) and everyone LOVES them.

Icelandic KD Box

Hot Dogs - And Yeah, the Guy on the front is apparently famous for his Hot Dogs...

 The mac and cheese was a close substitute for KD, however it lacked the nuclear orange colour - which oddly enough was kinda creepy rather than comforting...

The legend worthy hot dogs were very salty and porky - in fact, I was sneaking what was left of my pieces into Matthew's bowl since they really did become overpowering towards the end.

Finished Product:

Hmmm.... Mac & Cheese

Coming Soon

- Chocolates of Iceland -
We pick three contenders to try and figure out what Icelandic Peeps are diggin'

Breakfast... The Meal of Champions!

Greetings from Iceland!

We arrived on a lovely wet - yet surprisingly warm grey Icelandic morning at a cheery time of 7 am. Naturally we were VERY hungry as the highly anticipated 'sensual' plane food as we had so been looking forward to never materialized on our flight on Icelandic Air. Now, don't misunderstand, there WAS food - but it was for purchase.. that's right - you had to BUY your sensual plane food... on a 7 hour flight. To which we were like.. "Ah. Nay Nay."

So we starved.

Only good thing was, we only just had to wait to land, get through Customs, hit a washroom, find the ticket place for the bus to Reykjavik, buy a ticket, get to bus, wait for bus to leave, drive for 50 minutes to Reykjavik, transfer from the big bus into a smaller bus, wait for it leave, drop off other people at different hotel, drive to our apartment hotel, check-in, and then arrive in the room. Phew, no problem...........

Luckily!! Oh so luckily - I had asked for the early check in AND *sing song voice* it came with a lovely Icelandic breakfast!! (pictured below)
**Note: This is actually a picture of breakfast on day two since we inhaled the first one before I even thought of taking a picture.

It had brie cheese, bagels, toast with jams and cheese spreads, 'Skyr' (which is an Icelandic diary food which resembles a very thick yogurt), hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, dried salami and cured ham, along with a bit of chocolate. Very European. My favourite combo so far is the half melted brie on a hot toasted bagel covered with strawberry jam - how Europe can turn out ANY supermodels is beyond me!

Gotta Luv Food

So... you know when you're stuck in a strange place with no where to go... essentially trapped with no way out? Welcome to the Seattle Airport... Luckily, we were hungry, but with the sensual delights of airline food looming, we decided to stop in for just a small snack.

Matt, still recovering from his encounter with the dreaded 'Calgary Travelers Revenge' opted for a salad (not worth a picture) while I dove right into a kick off celebratory snack.

Below is the Dungeness Crab Cakes with a glass of Korbel Brut - the crab was fresh and the cakes actually pan fried rather than "deep fried" which you can come to expect from the high quantity places. All in all delicious and definitely worthy of the title 'Celebratory'.