The Birthday Dinner

The birthday month culminated at Forte Bistro and Lounge downtown in the financial sector. It is a lovely restaurant right across from the Canadian Opera Company. Parking is complimentary which is amazing in the Big Smoke, this could cost anywhere from $10-25 depending on what’s going on that night! The restaurant was beautiful, it reminded [...]

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The Pre Birthday Dinner

The festivities have been non-stop since my actual birthday last Wednesday. A friend from work took me for lunch on on Tuesday (day before my birthday), then my boss took me out on my actaul birthday and JT made a delicious Hawaiian pizza for dinner on Thursday night and Friday and Saturdays we went out [...]

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Frozen Strawberry Dessert

Today is my birthday.
A very good friend has decided to go on the Bernstein diet (yes, that is 5 referrals for me!) and we were having them over for brunch this past Sunday to celebrate our July birthdays. I had to come up with a brunch that was Bernstein friendly and JT did one for [...]

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The harvest and my craft

Here are a few shots of our lovely tomato harvests…we are getting about 5-10 every couple of days. Although entirely home grown organically, I am rather disappointed in the lack luster taste, they are OK but not great.
My Craft. We had this old window which used to be a mirror in our house at The [...]

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Frozen Lemon Mousse

I have a friend from KPMG days, actually from Peat Marwick days whom I have been meeting for lunch every quarter. Everytime we meet, we alway say we should get together as couples, but it never happened, until now. They kindly invited us for dinner on Saturday evening, for which our contribution was a Frozen [...]

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The LCBOs Leek and Mushroom Tart

I’ve blogged about this recipe before, but I haven’t listed it. It’s a fantastic combination of leeks and wild mushrooms in a tasty garlic base from the LCBO. Of course, JT’s version is a healthier version substituting Carnation Evaporated Milk (not  sweetened condensed milk) for the whipping cream, but then he adds prosciutto, so all [...]

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My Roof Top Tomato Garden

This is my last attempt at growing vegetables. Let me reminisce for a moment.
The first summer in this house, I turned the garden into a vegetable garden  (which later became our cocktail lounge and then the addition) and planted tomatoes, peppers and zuchinni. No sun, no success.
The following year, during the winter, I bought a [...]

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Build Day 7 – The Finale

As an add-on to last night’s post: On the front lawn I put out all the decent sized lumber pieces left over from our project (minimum size 3′ maximum size 5′) hoping that someone with a smaller project would pick them up. Well, during cocktails, a guy pulled up in his sedan and did just [...]

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Build Day 6 – The Home StretchMo

Today is Canada Day, therefore everthing is closed (thank goodness we stocked up from The Depot, the LCBO and Metro!).  We got off to a great start and skirted the back of the deck. By 12:30ish we had the arbour up and capped. Lunch was a tasty wrap and a tower of tomatoes and buffalo [...]

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