Thursday, August 21, 2008

That was fast. It can't be more than two weeks ago that I noticed there was another Starbucks "Coming Soon" to my neighbourhood. In the last thirty hours it has tranformed from a drywall dust bowl to a coffee clone. This makes it the third in the neighborhood.

The newest Starbucks is at the corner of Scotia & Kingsway

Not only is it a big cookie cutter purveyor of overpriced unpalatable drip coffee, but the intruder set up shop midway between two awesome independent cafés I frequent. There's no danger of it getting my business unless I get a gift card, in which case the money is already locked in and, being a student, the best price is free..

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posted by Vanessa at 9:39 PM


Sunday, August 03, 2008

I'm apparently turning into a little bit of a foodie. I just have to rave about the meal my boyfriend and I cooked last night!

On Thursday night he and I had jambalaya at pub on Commercial. As our dishes were garnished with two prawns each, it got us talking about how great they are and how we should eat more fish and seafood in general. We decided that we should make prawns the next time we cooked dinner together. Which takes us to last night..

Not only did my boyfriend pick us up two prawns each for dinner, but he also bought sablefish (both from the Quay!) We cooked the sablefish in a skillet with butter, garlic salt, pepper and parsley. For the prawns we just cooked them in butter and minced garlic. We rounded out our meal with two little red potatoes each, carrots and asparagus.

It was a most delicious and sastisfying meal!

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posted by Vanessa at 11:06 PM


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