Cook's Tour

As an amateur cook, I had a great afternoon today. After our usual stop at Charleswood Library, we headed over to "Scoop & Weigh" on Taylor, east of Kenaston. This store sells all the special needs a budding cook could ever want  (in addition to dozens and dozens of chocolate-coated goodies ... ever tried white chocolate-curry-coated cashews? ... to die for!). I bought various nuts and chocolates, including some sugar-free ones). I also found a citrus zester, a garlic peeler, a chopper-scraper, a cookie cutter, and pure sesame oil (not the water-downed version that you buy in supermarkets ... that stuff is diluted with soybean oil). There were dozens of other gadgets that I saw and wanted but I was satisfied with today's haul.

Next, we headed over to La Grotta Mediterranean Market, also on Taylor. Featuring meats, fish, cheeses, baked goods, vegetables, fruit, and dozens of other ethnic foods, it's a great place to shop. It was very busy today because of Mother's Day. Tortes were just flying off the bakery counter (the larger ones were $45!). We managed to avoid the cakes and pastries but did buy a couple of their loaves of bread. I also got some fresh vegetables for tonight's dinner. Our only weakness was for some of their gelato flavours, pistachio and mango. Well, I also picked up some mango ice cream that they make but the container was so small it didn't really count as a weakness.

Happiness is ...