Tag: Food

The most miserable place on Earth! Rome.

The most miserable place on Earth! Rome.

There is not a more fitting way to start this post than with the Face of Truth. The truth about Rome is that it is the most miserable place on Earth. This was my 3rd visit to Rome and it seems to never get better. Rome has a very limited  Metro system so getting around is not the easiest although unlike many other cities Rome is very consolidated into 2-hour walk to anything. The charm about Rome is its history as the centre of an ancient empire. Though when you get to see the real Rome most of the ancient ruins beside the Coliseum, a field where Circus Maximus was and the Pantheon there is really not much left to see of that empire. The only real remaining Empire left to see is that of Christianity and Catholicism. When it comes to food, Rome is very lacking in its own identity. It adopts styles from other Italian regions and International Inspiration. On my first night in Rome, I went to a place called Piazza Navona which was loaded full of people eating at all the restaurants that circled the Piazza. I went through a couple of allies and found Ristorante Ottavio. I was small, quaint and “Roman”. In…

I haven’t died… yet.

I haven’t died… yet.

It has been a while since I posted anything and it is not like nothing has happened. I took another amazing trip to Europe. The goal this time was to see amazing new things that I would not have seen if I actually planned the trip. It may not be a surprise to some of my loyal readers that I have a short attention span and my plan for Paris was simple. Do the Eiffel Tower at night, then on my full day go to L’Arc de Triumph, go in Notre Dame, and see Rodin’s House. What did I end up accomplishing? Just the tower and arc from my list. As it turns out I was going to walk down the Champs de Elysee to get to see the Charles de Gaulle statue and get on the Metro. As I walked down the street I noticed these mini malls and started to check them out until I found one that near the end had a back entrance to an alley. It was in this ally that I found the most amazing baked thing with raspberries that has ever entered my mouth. I should have taken a photo or wrote down the name of…

Weird food requests

This past week I went to the Saint John Ale House and ordered one of the most unusual things I have ever eaten. Mozza Sticks with Chocolate Sauce. You would be hard pressed to find anyone willing to place an item like this on their menu but in typical Ale House style it was one of the best drinking treats you could try. To have the punch of the bitterness of the dark chocolate sauce whack all your taste buds to attention, then to fade off to the warm salty creamy cheese. The cheese just hugs the flavor and is soothing like a corking mother after the attacking bullies stole your lunch money. Have a great week.

Haddock and Potato Dinner

Haddock and Potato Dinner

I thought I would take this opportunity since I have not posted anything lately to post a food success story. Unlike the horror stories of the past. The potatoes are my typical mashed potatoes. The was partly derived from my sisters variant. 2 Yukon Gold Potatoes 1/4 cup 2% Partly Skimmed Milk 1 Tbsp. Margarine Several dashes of Curry Powder Freshly Ground Peppercorn Medley The fish is Highliner frozen Haddock but any fish could work. The fish is then coated and rubbed in Honey Mustard, fresh lime juice, canola oil, salt, and fresh ground peppercorn medley. Then finished off siding the plate with canned cream corn and Sweet Pickles (with cauliflower.)

Saint John 225, but how?

Once again the City of Saint John is celebrating and making an attempt and rekindling of the community in Saint John. The big problem is that Saint John is in a place that makes it next to impossible to revive itself. Saint John is so backed in debt that there is a very little hope. There is the dynamic that Saint John is too big is size to support its population. It also requires large infrastructure funding to support its re-birth. Saint John has a plan that will rejuvenate the water system that only about 2/3 of the population base can take advantage of. The tax rate is also incredibly high, in fact too high to attract new money. It is also too high to keep those here. In addition, the situation where many jobs that the city attracts are that of less than $30,000/year. Let’s figure this out people, this works out to less than $2,500/month. That alongside the incredibly large amounts of single-parent families. It is almost an entire months pay for just the property taxes, alone. Another, month for insurance and water taxes. Another for 2 for car payments, 1 for electricity, 1 for food. Now we…

The Tale of Two Frozen Bananas

The Tale of Two Frozen Bananas

This past week I was reading a new post on my friend Andrea’s blog. Where she posted about making a dairy-free ice cream substitute by pureeing some Bananas. I thought to myself that sounds good especially with the peanut butter they suggest. I also have a can of coconut milk that has sat in the pantry for a while now. In hindsight, it now occurs to me that I never read the directions properly, or at all, as I seem to missed an important step. I bought the bananas last night and took two and put them in the freezer. Now what I am stuck with is two perfectly frozen bananas. I missed the part about peeling and slicing before freezing them solid.

Parkway Mall

List of Shops August 14, 1973 Boutique Jack and Jill Canadian Acceptance Corporation Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Dairy Snack Bar Francine’s Beauty Salon Forget-Me-Not Gallenkamp G.B. Murphy Gem Photo Jean Junction LaBoutique Chez Helene Liquor Store Lumac Fabrics Maharaja Gifts Mariner Book Shops Mary K. Florals McAdam Optical Metropolitan New System Nordic Art Shops Parkway Cinema Quik Food Kiosk Radio Shack Reitman’s Sally Shops Save Easy Shoppers Drug Mart Silver Shears Sportique Ltd. Sweet Side The Villager Restaurant Tip Top Tailors Villager Shoes Zeller’s County Fair 1980 Zeller’s County Fair Ltd. Parkway Optical CAC Realty Mortgages New Brunswick Liquor Save-Easy Jean junction Ltd. Silver Shears People’s Jewelers The Hobby Hut Music World Francine’s Beauty Shop Gem Photo & Photographic Productions Canadian Acceptance Corp Ltd. New System Laundry Parkway Cinema I & II Reitman’s Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Thrifty’s Tip Top Tailors Ltd. McAdam Optical Forget-Me-Not Novelty Shop Sally Shops Ltd. Circle of Sound The Villager Restaurant Radio Shack Gallenkamp Shoes Shoppers Drug Mart M&D Transfer Ltd. Book Mart Metropolitan Stores of Canada (MET) 1985 Zellers Bun King Bakery NB Liquor No Frills Grocery Wicker ‘n’ Things Big Deal Gift Shop Silver Shears People’s Jewelers Mable’s Yarn and Crafts…

WWWeeee….. I’m one of those shoppers.

Okay so I thought that I would post a YouTube video that I think is killer! But on another note on what I just realized I am an “Impulsive A**hole Bargain Shopper”. Today at work I learned that a shipment of “on-sale” Miracle Whip came in and customers were buying lots of it. Knowing how fast it ran out on Saturday I could not help myself but buy the limit of 2 bottles. Now I don’t really eat miracle whip too much, a bottle half the size would last me 2 months, but I could not stop myself (I just couldn’t) I just had to buy it. Knowing full well that it probably would not get eaten, kinda like the soup and Kraft Dinner from 2 months ago that are still in my cupboard uneaten. I always laughed at those people so it is really depressing to realize I’m one.

Toronto, Cabaret, and 25 other warm fuzzys.

While it has been such a long time since an update so this one might be a little longer than normal. And the full blame of this goes to www.facebook.com and www.youtube.com I have spent most of my Internet time on those two sites. Some of you might be even reading this from the notes section on Facebook. Okay so let us start with Toronto, I took lots of pictures that I will add to my gallery soon, and some very interesting ones at that. The greatest story was the one where I was sitting in the Glenn Gould Studio in the CBC Broadcast Centre as the marble tile fell off of the 60th story of First Canadian Place it shook the ground and nobody really noticed that is Toronto for you. And I went to see the show at Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament  www.medievaltimes.comit was defiantly one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life something that I would for sure go see again, and the food was amazing. I’m not sure what the soup was but my mouth is watering just thinking of it. I also took a trip up the CN Tower again it…

Night on the Town

Tonight I went to town to see Shaydid (http://www.shaydid.com) at O’Leary’s Pub. They were pretty good. Before that I went for supper at the Church Street Steakhouse. (https://grannangroup.ca/) I had no clue that their food was so good. I am going to have to go back and try more of their menu. There was this weird guy though that kept calling me Peter all night though. I think that I am going to have to go out more often. My cell phone received a virus again and it really messed up the programs that I had installed. I have those cell phone viruses because it is hard to rid yourself of them as there are not any free anti-virus programs available for my model of phone. I’m trying to think of more to put here as I don’t seem to post as often as I would hope. I make tons of forum posts but I keep neglecting this blog even though this blog has tons of visitors. Trust me I know how often each of you checks my blog. I have just noticed that the blog has been offline for a little while on my site. Some weird PHP problem…