Hummus Expiry Recommendations

In terms of hummus expiry we generally stick to two to three days for homemade hummus. For purchased hummus I go by the if it looks fine eat it rule. If it has a date then I generally do not betray that best before recommendation. In an upcoming post we'll try to talk about this more extensively

Refer to my earlier hummus expiry post for more information

Hummus Expiry etc.

Have you ever wondered if your hummus has expired? Apparently people who have visited our blog searched for just that. We're number eight when you google "hummus expiry". Unfortunately, the article google links to doesn't really discuss hummus expiry so you may just have to eat that expired hummus.

For future reference, I generally don't eat hummus after the expiry date. I have found with some of Trader Joe's (world's best almost-complete grocery store) hummus (or hummi) that they seem to separate after a few weeks. I don't think they've gone bad (well the expiry date says it's fine) but they definitely become less appetizing. I'm not faulting Joe because in general his hummus selection is second to none. The President could learn something from them since they seem to only have one hummus whereas Joe had at least 4 or 5 (standard, eggplant, jalapeno, and others that I don't recall).

Also in case you're wondering other searches that have led to our blog include:
- "nearest ikea to mississauga" (maybe because of their terrific $1 breakfast - recommended!)
- "pizza pizza jays strikeout" (maybe because of the free pizza you get with your ticket when the Jays get seven strike outs on Friday or Sunday home games)
- "shephards pie toronto" (maybe because of the President's variety of frozen shepherd's pies - all tasty)

Finally the nearest ikea to mississauga is probably the one in etobicoke at the 427 and the QEW. Breakfast is served until 11 I believe. After that you'll have to wait until 3 or so for the 99 cent pasta to kick in. I still hope to go sometime for the Wednesday multi-course meal. The evil Gardiner has blocked recent attempts but some week soon I hope to. I'm not sure if this is at all ikea's or just etobicoke so you'll have to check with the source.

Super tasty salad rolls

I made some cold salad rolls with rice paper, noodles, lettuce, carrots, mango, cilantro and some shrimp/leftover salmon for Ian. Some PC Memories of Thailand sauce.

Very tasty, albeight labour intensive.

Ian-freakishly healthy

Ian has taken his healthy eating to a new level. He has started adding brown lentils to our rice for extra fibre....

For those that knew Ian "back in the day" you will know this is quite the change from his old unhealthy ways.

Radichio and Belgian Endive

I've been buying new veggies that I have not tried before. I baked the aforementioned veggies with some salt/pepper and olive oil and drizzled on some balsamic vinegar.

These veggies were extremely, extremely BITTER! Not sure if I picked up defective veggies, or this is how they normally are??

Domino's

When Ian lived in Vancouver, we had a movie watching, dominos pizza party. I remembered it being pretty fun, so we had another one last night..5 years after the original....

Overall, not quite the same amount of fun-ness we remembered, but the pizza was still pretty tasty. Ian had pepperoni, I had pinaepple...total cost for 2 mediums was $15.78 so not a bad deal at all considering it will be enough for 6 meals or so.

Maybe the problem was the lack of pizza bread???

Watched Lara Croft Tomb Raider. I thought pretty good, Ian thought terrible and no plot at all.

Really bad meal at home

It was leftover night and we pretty much ate the world's worst meal...

Ian had leftover pasta/pesto, tortilla chips & salsa and crackers and cheese and some of my meal.

I had leftover chickpeas and 1/2 can of canned tomatoes that I froze earlier. So I threw in some veggies, some cumin/coriander and cooked for about 20 min. Turned out surprisingly very very bad.

Yep...leftover night = not good.

Freaky non-food Related Posting

After the picnic Ian and I went to his friends girlfriend's place for some poker party action. The girlfriend's roomate had this fake tatoo she got at some picnic that afternoon. I said, me too, I got this airbrush tatoo at a picnic. Turns out we were at the same one! Her sister works at my office! Pretty crazy for a city of 5 MM.

Picnicing Fun

Ian and I went to my company's annual family picnic way out in Milton. A few things were a bit fishy:

1. I don't think the picnic is an annual event

2. The "beach volleyball" courts were so overgrown with weeds and grass and the like that it really was not beach volleyball

3. The kids were hogging fun stuff like wall climbing, inflatable bouncy slide and air brush tatoos.

Anyhow, the food was alright. The typical assortment of burgers (veggie too) with salads, ice cream, popcorn etc. A so-so event overall.

Carribbean Roti Palace

I picked up Ian and we went for some curry action. Ian got boneless chicken roti which is always a tasty choice for about $6.00.

I strayed away from the roti and had the veggie rice plate. $6.75 for a huge plate of yellow/black bean rice, bowl of the roti filling - chickpea/potatoe action and another bowl, half eggplant, half squash. Eggplant not so hot, but the rest of it, high marks for tastiness.

To wash it all down we had our favorite "caribbean" pineapple beverage actually manufactured in brampton on.

For those charitable people

Go to this link and donate to Ian and I for Run for the Cure!

You can click on the link and donate to a participant. Search for Janice or Ian in Toronto on team Hurricane!

The more $ raised, the faster I will run...I promise.

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Very yummy curry type stuff

Last night I made an Indian extravaganza with squash/chickpea curry, cauliflower and some yellow coconut shrimp curry with some rice on the side.

The real star of the show was the squash. Here's what you do to recreate the tastiness at your own home...

Heat oil, add mustard seeds, add asafetida seeds, small amt white sugar and onions once the mustard seems pop. Brown onion a bit. Add bunch of chickpeas and a few T of canned tomato. Cover, cook 10 minutes. Make paste of cilantro, ginger, garlic. Add with some turmeric and cubed squash (butternut holds together the best). Add some water, cover and cook for about 5 minutes.

This is a recipe from "Meena Pathak's Flavours of India". Very good cookbook for Indian..mmm...

Had part of a bottle of Sunrise Conchya y Toro Cabernet Sauvignon from Chile that we picked up at the LCBO for about $8 with my last year curling winning gift card. Not so great, but I blame Ian for making us pick something that cheap.

Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair

I went last night, no time to go to speakers and stuff, but I walked around some of the displays. Fun food related and natural beauty product kind of stuff. Had dinner at the King's Cafe booth, a bunch of tofu/textured veggie protein items with spring roll, rice and dumplings for only $6! Others had similar type indian meals, all looked good. May go back tomorrow for lunch. Mmmmm.

Super Home Meal

Ian and I went to St. Lawrence Market and bought some tasty stuff to make a nice dinner...

I made some sauteed shrimp in garlic butter with fresh parsley and salt/pepper. Ian thought pretty tasty. Then a tomato/fresh basil/boccoccini salad with olive oil...mmmm.

Then some of Ian's home-made whole wheat french bread (well, a bit of help from the breadmaker!). For the grand finale, some fresh pasta from the market, with tomato, fresh basil, parsley, garlic, arugula sauce with some fresh parmesan...mmmm...

Drank a bottle of BC Mission Hill Cabernet Sauvignon that my curling team from last year gave Ian and I for our wedding.

Yeah, that's about it. Pretty tasty and lots of dishes created! Ha ha!

Spring Rolls

We hadn't been to spring rolls in ages so we hit the one on Front street yesterday. It was fairly good as usual. The curry pad thai with chicken was one of the daily specials so I of course couldn't resist. It was fairly good even though lately the satay pad thai has been my favorite from the pad thai family. Janice had one of the other daily specials - something with vegatables - I don't quite recall the details. She seemed sufficiently pleased.