Toronto

I love going to Toronto. Everytime I go, it's like I discover something new. The city is so big, and there's so much to do, it's literally like I'm a tourist each time. It's also great that my cousins take me to slightly different places each time, so I get to explore even more.

I was in Toronto 2 weekends ago, and since the Sunday was so gorgeous out, we decided to park the car in Yorkville and walk everywhere else.

We managed to walk alongside the St. Patrick's Day parade route, and had to cross their path a couple times to get to stores we wanted to peruse.

It was so beautiful out, we walked from Yorkville, zig zagging our way to Eaton Centre. Then back around to Spadina up Chinatown, before making out way back to College to go to Fran's!




Needless to reiterate: our meals were delicious! =D

Monkey Toasts

A couple weeks ago, I went in to Toronto for the weekend to hang out with my cousins, Winnie and Sharon. Winnie's birthday was a couple days before, so we decided to head out for dinner and a comedy club of her choice.

We ended up at Banjara Indian Cuisine, which, by the way, was absolutely DELICIOUS. It's even better than Diwa Classic here in Guelph, and I really like that place...

Anyways, the place was packed, fueling my comment that it was a great place to eat.

After dinner, we walked around the Queen St W area because it was a beautiful cool night. When it was about good timing, we headed to Comedy Bar with our tickets to Monkey Toasts!

I like live comedy, but haven't been out to see a lot of it because not many of my friends are interested in it. Glad my cousins are up for anything! It was a great show, with three guests (John Catucci, Mike Layton and Marnie McBean).

It was pretty cool, because Marnie is an Olympic medallist for Canadian rowing and she shared her experiences on that. Mike Layton is the Trinity-Spadina city councillor, and John Catucci is on the Food Network!!

I definitely hit up John Catucci afterware for a photo and the chance to ask him about being on the Food Network, how he got to where he is now, etc. Although he didn't have the authority to get me a show on the network, he was interesting to talk to and an overall awesome funny guy.

Me with John Catucci!

Pesto salmon

I'm not sure if I've posted something like this before, but it is still delicious.

There was some good lookin' salmon at the store, so I picked up some of it.

I also love pesto, and always have that lying around, so I thought I'd put the 2 together and make some epic delicious-ness.

My creation?


A plate of awesome. That's what.

I'm a strong proponent of crispy skin and flaky flesh., so the consistency of the fish was a little on the mushy side for me. Overall though, it tasted pretty good.

It was a simple foil packet of salmon with the pesto rubbed on top. I left it to bake in the oven for 20 minutes and it turned out great!

Blueberries

I love blueberries.

We still have some blueberries in the freezer that are from the summer at the cottage. So, I decided to make some blueberry baked goodies, and I settled on scones.

I had never made scones before, typically because I don't like the hard dry texture. I got this recipe somewhere online (honestly, I forget where) and it turned out a lot runnier than I anticipated. They were so soft and light, they turned into pillowy cookies instead.


Not that I was going to complain about that, since scones are too dry for my liking.

Delicious!

Convocation v2.0!

Hurray for working so hard over the last 2 years for another degree!


I officially haven't been a student for over 3 months now, and although I miss being in the loop about all the grad student events, I'm really liking not getting paid shit and saving tuition fees.

Duane (one of my committee members) and I