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Lunch

At Laurie’s. She made a squash apple soup, had goat cheese for baguettes, and a dark rice with a cranberry marinade presented on watercress. Delicious and lovely. Inspiring reminder of what good food can be with the time and care to prepare and to sit down and enjoy it slowly.

Hospital Fare

The buffet at the Civic hospital when mom went in to get her skin cancer spots taken off. The good news is that her next appointment has been scaled back to a year from now instead of the usual 6 months.

Lentil soup, hummus, some cous cous salad, macaroni salad and 7 layer salad that had […]

Brown Rice and veggies and Other Quickie Meals

Brown rice topped with a stir fry of onions, snow peas and peppers, broccoli and mushrooms.
Most meals during fest were quick grabs, like at Planet Coffee when we got cous cous and lentil salad with a few bean salad.

We went with what was quick. Like a slide of freezer pizza with supplementary spinach and a […]

Writers Fest Buffets

Arc Magazine’s 30th birthday party was part of the Writers Fest, as was the nightly buffet line which Hubby and I manned for a few nights. Below, injera and other ethiopian food.

Up close. Look quick. It’s already gone except for the digital echo.

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I expect to be back in a few more days. Not many regular meals just now.

Watercress Soup

1 tbsp butter
2 slices fresh ginger
sautee and keep the gingery butter to add to:
1 can low fat condensed milk
half a cup or so of almond milk
Heat but don’t boil.
Chop or puree (or somewhere in between) a cup of washed watercress.
Add to milk. Serve.

Mushroom omlette, green beans, asparagus topped with butter-fried fresh ginger, baked potatoes topped […]

Royal Thai

Vegetable fried tofu curry was a one hot chili pepper rating. It was too bland for hubby and too hot for me even with the coconut milk. The vegggies were a nice crunchy texture tho.
My pad thai was sweet and salty and bland.
It’s good to try a new restaurant. Even better when one gets […]