It’s my birthday on Friday and JT bought tickets to see Steely Dan at Ontario Place’s Amphitheater. I am very much looking forward to it. My pre-birthday dinner is Thursday night at Bar Mercurio – my new Italian favourite! We’ll probably go to La Societé for the actual birthday dinner (yes, I like to stretch it out as much as possible)
We’re having our good friends Rae and Monica to the house for a city weekend. They usually come up to the cottage sometime in the summer, but we are not happy with the condition of the porch this year (handyman still needs to get to it) and Rae and Monica’s eldest daughter is off at university in Guelph, so they are more comfortable being an hour away instead of three with two younger one’s still at home! Hence the Bloor West Village weekend! They arrive around 11 on Saturday and we plan to head up to Bloor to Bloom for lunch. It’s Summerlicious so we can get three courses for $20. We’ll probably have a cocktail or two before we go ;-).
Here is the menu for the weekend. I will post the recipes of the courses I have not previously posted in their own post so they are easier to find.
Saturday Dinner
Roasted Red Pepper and feta
Deconstructed Grilled Caesar Salad (I have borrowed this recipe from my Muskoka host Roland. He made a grilled Caesar that was to die for, so I had to include it)
Chilled Avocado Soup with Cilantro oil
Ribs and Moroccan Quinoi salad (with nuts, and dried fruit), Garlic bread
Frozen Lemon Mousse
Sunday
Meusli for a small breakfast, coffee, tea
Lunch: Panini crèpes with ham and cheese a dijon sauce with grilled asparagus
Answer for question two here 🙂
P.S. those cherry tomatoes/cheese look amazing!
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Thank you Fati, I wish you luck with the contest!
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Here is where I found out when your birthday is!
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Birthday answer found here – this is a fun game. Like hide and seek! 🙂
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Happy birthday, Eva! Enjoy your week. I like to stretch out my birthday too – lunches, dinners, drinks, for at least a week, but I do like Ann’s sister’s idea of stretching it out for a whole month! That’s fantastic. I love Bar Mercurio too. It’s a great Italian restaurant. Joe Mercurio, the owner, and I go way back. Have a great time!
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Thank you Michela! I like to call it birthday month; however, there is some controversy on whether it starts on the actual birthday and lasts for the duration of 31 days or whether it starts at the beginning of the birthday month.
We met Joe a couple of weeks ago when we were there for dinner, very nice guy; we really like Paulo too. We tried to convince Joe to open a restaurant in BWV – he said: “one woman in my life is enough”
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Happy Birthday! What a delicious menu and I love your birthday plans! My sister has a “birth month” rather than a day…she talks her husband into doing stuff the entire month, buys herself little presents and just enjoys the month of August…which was made entirely for her!
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Thank you Ann. I love that philosophy!
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Have a wonderful birhday and you know my philosophy on birthdays, the longer you celebrate them the younger you look and feel…having great Hungarian genes also helps!
Enjoy your 20s!!
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Thanks Pam! You’re my inspiration!
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