Happy Birthday Mum!

Today is my Mum's birthday, and Ian and I cooked dinner for the family. It's so awesome when the 8 of us get together :) It was a night of fun, food and family.

And it was lovely for all of us to get together and celebrate our Mum, Mom, Mamma.

We served homemade hummus and bruschetta to start, with champagne cocktails. For dinner we started with my famous curried cauliflower soup (made with my homemade stock). For the main Ian made his famous Beef Wellington, with garlic green beans and frites with truffle oil.

Then we served store bought red velvet cake for dessert.

A Huge Big Fabulous Happy Birthday to my awesome Mum. I love you very much, and you make me so happy to have you as my Mum and as my friend. :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Location:Jackson Ct,Ottawa,Canada

Connecting

Three couples, six friends got together tonight for the first time in a long time.

Short but sweet...it's been too long and having the six of us (plus one) get together was wonderful. I love when we're all able to get together and share food and laughter and love :)

It's a moment of pure joyousness ;) a reason for being. Thank you.

With Love
~sarah~

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Location:Jackson Ct,Ottawa,Canada

Caramalized Bacon

Yummmy! My Saturday morning was a smorgasbord of wonder and deliciousness!

Food is something that often makes me happy. Nothing make me happier than new and delcious ways to serve food.

The girls and I headed out to a restaurant in Toronto called Starving Artist. I was told is was a waffle place and I kind of thought "meh", but the birthday girl really liked it so I went with the choice.

And am I ever glad I did. OMG what a fantastic meal and amazing restaurant!!!

The owner is running the little galley kitchen. He is friendly, happy and answering all of my questions about the delicious looking food coming out of the kitchen. The servers are a lot of fun and everyone is so easy-going and relaxed. Changes are easy to make. This sign makes me smile.



The Americano is properly made and tastes great...and the food...OMG...the food! I will let a picture say a thousand words (a couple of pictures).

My meal...a Monte Cristo sandwich made with French toast waffles and a salad w/ avocado. (with a piece of caramalized bacon..yes, bacon, on the side).



Cheddar and chive waffles



Delicious dessert waffles



Eggs Benny w/ avocado instead of ham



If that doesn't make me happy, I'm dead! :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Location:Paton Rd,Toronto,Canada

Food of the Gods

A couple of summers ago I fell in love with truffle oil. I was at a wedding and one of the passed ordeuvres was a delightful pastry amuse-bouche drizzled in truffle oil and I was hooked. If it said truffle oil on the menu, I ordered it.

A couple of weeks ago I had the best taste ever. Frites drizzled in truffle oil. Could it get any better or any more foodie casual than this?

Oh, but it could.

Our friends who got married that day mentioned that the restaurant where they had their celebration serves popcorn drizzled in butter and truffle oil.

So tonight with enough points left. I popped a big bowl of popcorn, tossed it with salt, then drizzled it in melted butter and topped it off with some truffle oil.

The perfect end to a perfect evening! :)

Their are a couple of foods that I expect I will eat a lot of when I've died and gone to heaven...and one of those items...is truffle oil.

With Love
~sarah~

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Location:Jackson Ct,Ottawa,Canada

Deliciousness

This evening a friend of mine left her baby with our husbands and off we went seeking cheese, charcuterie and wine.

We ventured a walk through the Byward Market in Ottawa. It was an understandably quiet Saturday night with the cold and snow.

We ended at a lovely spot, at 1 York Street, called Play Food and Wine. The place was packed when we arrived, shortly after 8, and us without a reservation. No worries, there was room upstairs at the kitchen bar; comfortable bar chairs at a high bar like area over-looking the open concept kitchen. AWESOME!

It was very warm, but no complaints from me on a cold winter's night. Smiles were fired off by the kitchen staff as we sat down. The Sous-Chef was putting plates of delicious looking food along the edge and I jokingly asked if he would just keeping putting food up their for us to eat all evening? :) It all looked delicious.

Both of us already having eaten dinner decided it would be best to stick with charcuterie and cheeses. We ordered some wine and then for the next 3 hours sat and drank and talked.

What a fabulous way to spend a Saturday night and what an amazing place in which to do it! Watching and smelling the marvelous food all night while enjoying the company of a great friend, I couldn't have asked for a better time.

I could go on and on raving about the restaurant...but instead of wasting your time with my words...I suggest instead that you check it out yourself http://www.playfood.ca you won't regret it!

I look forward to heading back their soon with my husband, to try the myriad of wonderful dishes I watched come out of the kitchen! I hope they don't change the menu too soon...because I already know what I want to try! :)

With Love
~sarah~

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