Deep Freeze

Ever since Sears dropped off our deep freeze, our lives have improved (extremely modestly)!

A quick trip to Costco and $120 later, we have veggie & meat burgers, two kinds of fish, popsicles, rolls and berries to last a month or two!

T&T Dim Sum

This place has some good, cheap weekend eats. We went to the Toronto Lakeshore location.

For $13, we picked up a green onion cake (I know not authentic and caters to the white people, but it sure was good), curry squid, har-gow, sui-mai and sticky rice in a leaf!

Easy BBQ Salmon

Tonight for dinner we used a couple pieces of Costco frozen salmon. About 15 min total on the BBQ with the last 5 minutes or so with a glaze of half BBQ sauce, half maple syrup. Very quick, easy and good!

McD's

Occasionally I pick up a grilled cheese happy meal for lunch. Oddly enough the price is slightly different depending where I purchase in the GTA. A low of $3.77 to a high of $4.24 with a $4.00 in there too.

Momiji

I have now discovered another Momiji location in Mississauga, but this post refers to the one in the Kingsway on Bloor.

Ian and I went for a birthday dinner and ordered some old favorites. The grilled eggplant was ok, but not grilled enough and was missing the addictive salty carrot-ginger topping that we love so much! Far less tasty than normal.

Then another appetizer - deep fried tofu (age-dash tofu I think is the official name). Very good and a hearty portion.

Main course was a beef bento. Tempura was good as usual and Ian was impressed by 3 large shrimp and I liked the veggies. Teriyaki beef with rice & veggies was a disappointment this time. Beef was extremely raw, chewy and the teriyaki flavor was rather sparse. In the past we have loved this dish so I'm not sure what went wrong in the kitchen tonight! Soup & salad also included.

Salmon roll & avocado roll were both very good.

BBQ Ribs @ Home

$20 at Costco will get you two full racks of pork side ribs! A pretty good value when you consider that half that will cost you $25 at most restaurants.

I put on a rub of paprika, brown sugar & cumin, wrapped in foil and baked for 3 hours at 275 in the oven. Then rested for about 15 and onto the bbq for about 15 min with sauce for the last few minutes. Yummy!

Alice Fazooli's

I'm normally against the semi-chain type places, but the allure of the patio on a nice Friday lunch was too much to resist!

Everything is overpriced with the exception of the lunch time half salad half pasta. The salad is similar size to the regular lunchtime salad (that costs about $12) and the pizza is as big as a plate! All for about $14 including tax & tip. The first time I ordered this, I thought they made a mistake with portions that were too big :)

My Thai Kitchen

This place is definitely a sit-down kinda joint, but they also seem to do take-out pretty well. Call on the way over and you will arrive to nicely packaged thai food a mere 10 min later! Here's the website with full menu & prices.

It defies logic that they seemingly don't have their phone number on the website, but with a little i-net research it can be located.

Tropicana Juice Aeroplan Point Bonanza!

Nice! 25 aeroplan points for some tasty juice that we would buy regardless! I like these promotions! Here's the details...

Fat Bastards Burrito Update

Fat Bastards in Etobicoke is now known as "Fat B's". I naively think it's because they have come around and thought that their original name was mildly offensive. Ian points out that some low end restaurants continually change names once they run amok with the health inspectors.

Regardless, we've been back and actually enjoyed the pork burritos. I can't quite put a finger on what they've changed since the first time when it wasn't so great. Maybe the beans?