High Tea

November 2019 - Toronto ON

Queen St. East Toronto

I mentioned before, November is a quiet month around here. We have short gloomy days that are conducive to cocooning, baking, relaxing, making our place cozy.

Twice this week we had planned to go out in the afternoon to the ROM, Royal Ontario Museum and then changed our minds. We'll get to the exhibit, maybe next week.


Saturday was cold and grey but we took the bus and subway to Wellesley for a burger at Holy Chuck's, they do a great gluten free bun as well.

While we were waiting for our burgers the TV was on a PBS station and they were showing Pati's Mexican Kitchen filmed in Mazatlan. It was incredible we knew every single place they showed and it had some of the best drone shots.

Walked to College Park and made stops at Bulk Barn, Winners, Metro, Dollarama and LCBO before heading to Queen St. W.
On the streetcar home we passed this demonstration outside Old City Hall.

John snapped this.

Checking our the neighbourhood at twilight.

Sunday I made Chinese curry chicken, onion bhajis and lemon mousse as John's daughter was in town on business and came to dinner. This had to be totally gluten free for her.

Love getting organized for cooking.

Monday John went with a friend to an Indian reservation to look at golf stuff. No taxes! They also found a gluten free pizza place that was quite good. Artisan Pizza in Burlington.


I debated and ended up staying home and visiting a friend. Then it was loads of laundry, two dish loads.
I finally updated my book list for this year and our ongoing monthly recap.
Dinner was last night's leftovers.

Tuesday John did Costco where he got a great deal on coffee beans, but that meant we needed a grinder. Thank you Amazon Prime.

I returned a Uncomplicated, a cookbook to the library and then poked in a few stores before picking up vegetables for dinner.

Since we had enjoyed the mushroom brie pasta I made last week, I copied this recipe from the book.

I cut through the Eaton Centre where there was a pop up barbershop offering non-alcoholic beer.

Canada's tallest Christmas tree is now up.

Interesting sunset.

Made a meatloaf, haven't done that in ages. I used my trusty Betty Crocker recipe it has spinach and mozzarella in it. I also added some mushrooms into it.
Served with mashed potato, carrots and turnips.


Wednesday we had planned to go to the museum late afternoon but then got settled and decided to go on Friday instead.

Stuffed baked potatoes with bacon, broccolini, cheese, scallions and sour cream for dinner.

Thursday my BFF and I went to College Park and had a good time poking around Bed, Bath and Beyond, Marshall's, Winners, Dollarama and our favourite lunch in that food court, pepper steak sandwiches and a water for $7.50, cheaper and better than McD's.
I bought this chopper as I had seen a blogger raving about it and my BFF said she's had one for years!

Some other stuff that caught our eye.

I am really interested in this, to grow herbs inside.

And this.

I was going to order this online from Bed Bath and Beyond, where I saw it. But couldn't find it so found a similar one on Amazon.

Socks

We were so pleased with our timing for heading back to Union to go our respective ways home. Headed down to the subway and hmmm. lots of people on the platform, and the northbound train was sitting at the platform across from us.
Finally a garbled inaudible announcement that service was suspended north and southwards due to a "trespasser on the tracks", at least that was better than "personal injury at track level".
So we decided to get the College streetcar over to University and go to Union that way. Of course, it was raining out...

Salmon with lemon butter and colcannon for dinner.

Friday, again, we planned on the ROM but chose instead to just go downtown.
I needed socks (I know, so exciting) and John wanted a pair of gloves.
Then we stocked up on food for the weekend.

We had to buy this unusual cheese. Haven't tried it yet. It is made from cow's milk with a licorice flavour according to descriptions online.

Steak and mushroom tomato cauliflower rice with broccoli for dinner.

BOOK ENDS

I mentioned The Flight Attendant last week and I must say the ending caught me by surprise.

I followed by other book by Chris Bohjalian Midwives.

It was an interesting read set in the 80s.

All I can say is having read two of his books I am astounded at his ability to write from a woman's perspective, first as a flight attendant and now as a 14 year old girl!

I am also reading The Atomic City Girls on my phone in transit. I am very interested in this piece of history during World War II but it is written in such a mundane tone, that it is hard to keep my interest. I have read that one should instead read the non-fiction version instead The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II which I think I will.

I also started The Past, by a new to me author, Tessa Hadley whom I discovered when reading The Irish Times book section. I think I will be reading more of her.

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