retroactive post 2 - cafes and restaurants in TO

One summer afternoon, my parents and I were walking around "midtown" Toronto (Mount Pleasant and Eglinton) and we stumbled upon this (what I believe to be a) French cafe.  

They had a very nice visual display of their desserts... which I sadly did not try.  Cuz it was mad expensive.

My dad got a burger and salad. Tres French.

I got this baguette sandwich thing with proscuitto.  It tasted exactly like a baguette with proscuitto.

Then we drove down to Liberty Village to watch my brother play recreational soccer.  He's improved vastly since he was 4; at that age, he used to crouch down and pick clovers.  

Then we decided to have my mom redeem her mother's day gift, which was a dinner at Rodney's Oyster House in downtown Toronto.

This is allegedly a giant clam... perhaps one of the world's giant?  I don't remember, and I can't read that small print.

I had to get me some clam chowdah (sic)

This is a bunch of seafood in tomato sauce/soup.  It must've been good beacuse my mom destroyed this dish!

This is my scallop linguine thing, which was also delicious!

Danny got a lobster, also tasty.

Danny is excited to eat his lobster with his lobster bib!

My dad, of all people, got a salad.  I don't know what was up with him that evening.  Maybe he was still full from that french burger he had a few hours earlier.

There you have it, some more food shenanigans in Toronto.  Yet more reasons why y'all should visit the T-dot some day! :)  (Bring cash.  This stuff ain't always cheap...)

retroactive blog post 1 - Canada Day at the Cottage

Canada Day at the Cottage!

This one is pretty self-explanatory... beer, bbq, and other foodstuffs.  There are Webers pictures too, but that will have to be its own blog post since I don't have the pictures handy.

This fridge was filled with beer within 10 minutes of us stepping foot in the cottage.  Obviously we had our priorities straight.

Charlsie was our grillmaster for the weekend!  What an epic grillmaster!  

Here we have some grilled chicken with generous amounts of Bulls Eye BBQ sauce, and copious amounts of grilled vegetables (olive oil and salt and pepper).

Here's my cheesy pull apart bread that I found off of pinterest!  This is a sourdough loaf that I cut a grid into.  Then I sauteed mushrooms and red onion in olive oil, and seasoned it with salt and pepper.  Then I shoved all that good stuff in between the crevices of the sourdough bread, and also shoved in some cheese.  Then I baked that bad boy for a while, probably in a 325 oven or something around that.  Then we enjoyed the crap out of this thing.

And behold - our Canada Day light brite!