November 6 to 13:
- Fattoush Salad @ La Luna - Family bonding over a Lebanese feast. I have dreams of this salad that I have eaten since I was a kid at our favorite restaurant that is owned by a patient of my dad. I even had my sixteenth birthday party at their old location and they served all my traditional Lebanese favorites as well as chicken fingers and fries for the picky eaters. The salad itself is a mix of lettuce, cauliflower, green peppers, onion and radish with a dressing of lemon juice, olive oil, oregano and sumac and topped with crunchy pieces of pita bread. Every bite makes me happy and yet a little sad that I only get my favorite salad the couple times a year I get home. My dad called ahead and in addition to the salad they prepared a huge spread of hummos, baba ghanouge, kebbeh, falafel, tomato and cauliflower, sauteed mushrooms, rice, beeftek and shish tawook (though no meat for me) and some homemade baklava for dessert. Needless to say, there were a lot of leftovers.
- Poutine @ Swiss Chalet - Lunching and wack-o watching with my brother in Downtown Hamilton. I love poutine and I love the dipping sauce at Swiss Chalet, which is like my crack (I stock up on pouches of the sauce mix), so the combination of the two is absolutely brilliant! Once I took some of my American coworkers to a Swiss Chalet and they didn't go nearly as crazy for it as I had hoped. Oh Swiss Chalet you will always be close to my heart nourishing me when my mother didn't feel like cooking and several nights while working late in public accounting. To round out my meal, I had a garden salad with Chalet dressing, which is pretty much like Catalina dressing only better!
- Caramel Chocolate Pecan Cookie @ Tim Horton's - Snack and run. To fuel my baby tour of Ontario and to satisfy a long overdue craving, I stopped at Tim Horton's for this cookie and a large cup of the famous coffee. Although NYC now has several Timmy's locations, it will never taste as good as it does at home. Other random things I crave that I can't get here? Ketchup and all-dressed flavored chips, fuzzy peach and big foot candies, President's Choice vegetable lasagna and the white cheddar macaroni and cheese in a box, coffee at the Second Cup, Lick's veggie burgers, Indian food from Gate of India, Cave Springs wine (gamay noir) and dim sum (it's just better in TO). I didn't satisfy all these cravings (that would be just wrong) but will need to visit soon to get a couple more of these things in!
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