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Halloumi at Acorn is a like veggie Fish and Chips and I’m a believer

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Chevre Chaude Factor 5 Yums Up

IMG_4751.JPGDinner at Acorn last night and my new favourite dish in the city is the Halloumi.  3 pieces of deep fried halloumi cheese sit on a potato cake on top of smashed peas with a big smear of minted yogurt.  Magnificent and enough like a chevre chaud to excite me. Fish and chips and chevre chaud salad are among my favourite dishes of all time and this one nods to both.

Friday winedown at The Travel Group featured Pepper Dauphinois from Les Amis du Fromage and Dessert Hills Gamay.

I drank Blue Mountain Brut, a suggestion from our server that I fully appreciated.  (like fish and chips with champagne, a meal I long for) David took his suggestion for a Spanish tempranillo with the mushroom pappardelli which proved to be an excellent combo.

Good workout this morning, 15 minute bike with 4 sprints, light upper and lower.

Ate 2,300 calories yesterday.

The Stable House Bistro is great for pre-theatre and Fairmont Pac Rim serves the best veggie meal

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No workout this morning.  I didn’t get to bed until midnight and don’t have the fortitude to get going with only 5 hours sleep.

We had lunch at a Board of Trade luncheon at the Fairmont Pacific Rim.  Banquet food is usually pretty bad and I always request a vegetarian meal.  The appearance of that “odd” meal is always a little embarrassing and the food ranges from truly ugly to barely edible but yesterday I had the best vegetarian banquet meal ever; rice with bok choy, crisp tofu and an amazing Asian sauce.  Kudos to the Fairmont Pacific Rim.

We were seeing Saint Joan at The Stanley theatre The Stable House Bistro on South Granville was my pick for a new restaurant to try.  A glass of Blue Mountain Brut, some warm olives and nuts arrived quickly and the busy day slipped away by the time the rest of the food arrived.  Mushrooms and Gruyere with onion puree on a tart was perfect.  A very nice piece of salmon on celeriac noodles and puree was topped with crispy barley adding a nice crunch and gremolata vinaigrette gave some zing. Gnocchi with cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, pickled anchovies and Parmesan foam was very good though I don’t think I’d want to eat the whole dish myself.  Nice list of wines by the glass on a chalk board.  I had a Montepulciano,  a lovely red that I probably ordered cause I like saying it.  Happy Friday!

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Calories were also a problem yesterday since we ate out for both lunch and dinner.  I try to keep it to a max of 2,500 but I think I may have gone over a bit yesterday.  It’s so hard to count when you don’t prepare the meals yourself.

Jackson Triggs Sunrock Vineyards are always excellent. The ’06 Merlot was no exception.

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10 minutes biking plus some core work; a light workout was called for this morning, my knee was aching from the squats and gardening yesterday. I got the old heard pumping with some raking so that burned some extra calories.

I ate about 2,300 calories yesterday.  Dinner at home; bucatini with white anchovies and capers and coleslaw. I used rustichella d’abruzzo bucatini, it’s my favourite brand and I love the fat chewy noodles.  The salty anchovies and capers with peppers and olive oil make this my kind of dish,  David hates the pasta and white anchovies so I won’t be tempted to make it too often. Probably for the best.  As for the coleslaw, I learned that I don’t like savoy cabbage if it isn’t cooked.  It was such a nice looking cabbage, I was looking forward to eating it, but it should have been a stir fry.

We opened a bottle of Jackson Triggs SunRock Vineyards 2006 Merlot and it was beautiful.  Colour and cork were still good, aroma was rich, the fruit was still lively and mouth feel was velvet.  A cellaring that paid off.

Scooped a cup of “The Barn” at Revolver

Excellent morning workout.  15 minutes on bike, only 1 sprint but a complete set of upper and lower body.

Ate 2,100 calories yesterday.   Dinner at home with David’s meatless loaf, baked potato poutine with miso gravy, caprese salad and a roasted beet dish with the greens roasted in at the last few minutes, a great Bon Appetit recipe.

Finished the Stag’s Hollow Riesling and it held up perfectly.

Coffee. We drank out yesterday and tried “the barn” at Revolver, a complex coffee with a lot of flavours. A bit more acidic than I prefer but I’d like to give it another go.  They figured to be sold out by mid day yesterday for about a week.

Curry leftovers makes a great week night meal

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Bike ride – 15 minutes with 4 sprints.  Lots of upper body on bike.  No time for anything else, too many chores I should have done last night instead of going to bed, but if love going to bed early and will whenever I can.

Dinner – Desi Turka leftovers – 3 Yums Up

Curry leftovers for dinner.  We always order more than we need for a quick week-night meal.  My current favourite dish is Bhindi Bhaji;  smokey okra and onions, from Desi Turka in Burnaby.

Wine – Stag’s Hollow Riesling 2013 – 4 Yums Up

Nice yellow,  heady aromatic, bright and acidic, just enough diesel to win me over.

Ate 2,350calories

Family dinner at Po Kong was excellent.

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Really good workout this morning. 15 minutes bike.

We had dinner at Po Kong last night. Rachel joined us with a friend so we were able to order lots of stuff. They had a couple of favourites we hadn’t tried before like spicy chicken wings and deep fried taro. All vegetarian. Po Kong is a buddhist restaurant so no alcohol either. The food was excellent.

Yesterday I ate 1,900 calories

Sunday November 16th Day 1 of new BlogPost

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I’m sitting in the parking lot at Grouse waiting for David to finish the grind. Topsail and I did a 20 minute walk at Ambleside. Had to touch the totem. It’s a beautiful morning, sunny and cold.
I’ve just downloaded WordPress and am planning to blog daily about food,exercise, coffee, wine and beer. That’s in order of personal importance.

Ate at Le Tigre food truck for lunch. Excellent “angry kitty”crispy rice squares, very spicy and chewy. Beet salad’s been even further upgraded with artichokes. Loved the crispy kale in the crack but didn’t care for the broccoli addition.
Opened a Hillside 2008 Pinotage for dinner. Its probably a bit past its prime. Lots of colour on the sediment. Crystals on the cork. We’ll have to drink the other one. Fast!

Yesterday I ate 2,000 calories