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I tried making mashed cauliflower without a food processor once.

Once.

Eggs you purchase commercially (as eggs, not balut, which are the ones with the developing chick inside) have not been fertilized. They could not become meat, so I can't see considering them to be meat.

We are throwing a combo V-Day Chinese New Year's party the night before, so Valentines can do their own thing on the day and we can still feed everyone and be silly.

We haven't quite planned the menu but there will definitely be dim sum items, probably heart-shaped cookies, and lots of snacky things.

And Dark and Stormys, because they are my favorite.

Lunch at my desk (waiting for an email containing a pile of work to arrive), club soda and a roast beef sandwich.

I was last there in May (now live 500 miles away) but I think Blue Ginger is my favorite restaurant in the world. I'm not saying the best, just my favorite. There's always so much flavor, I also want to lick the plate (and I have permission from Ming Tsai himself to do so, though I haven't managed the chutzpah yet). We had my brother's law school graduation dinner there and the service was friendly yet perfectly professional. I've never had anything I didn't like! Of the current dinner menu mains I have only had the butterfish but oh is it good - it's the one everyone else copied.

bareneed - where in Canada are you? There are two Whole Foods in the greater Toronto area (where I am), and a few in BC.

Now, Trader Joe's is a different story. I miss it so much! So convenient especially for frozen foods and the nut selection is beyond all reason. However, after reading their website, I'm pretty sure it's never coming here since all their trade agreements are so specific.

@KarynMC - What is frog eye salad??

Our food is on the tame side, but the names for it aren't. Mashed potatoes have been Mashed Steven since I was about twelve (Steven is a family friend), the turkey is always Turkus Maximus, etc.

We did discover one year at Canadian Thanksgiving that my mom's pumpkin bread goes really well with adobo (chicken/pork cooked in soy sauce, vinegar and garlic). Delicious!

Toasted sesame bagel (has to be a decent bagel), honey mustard, tuna salad, slice of green apple, slice of medium cheddar.

Would kill for one of these for lunch today.

Thank you, Nestle Favourites combo, for pathologizing candy-eating for all Canadians. I too eat Coffee Crisp and Kit Kat layer by layer. The middle of a Coffee Crisp is so yummy!

I also like to eat the crust of sandwiches made on sliced bread before the rest of the sandwich, but I don't *have* to.

@pooch - thanks! turns out to be not broken, phew, it was just really stressed out. did not know fridges had feelings. and the light bulb blew up, which was the burny smell, apparently.

I'm starting grad school on Thursday, work full time and am married to a Catholic, 500 miles from my family.

We have a challah in the freezer, but I wouldn't be shocked if we end up eating it with delivered rotisserie chicken from Swiss Chalet. :D

We are going to a burger place tonight with friends, the Yellow Griffin. It's pick your patty (beef, turkey, veggie, pork, lamb, chicken breast, salmon hunk) and then pick your topping combination and side. I had a vegan lunch (some of the best food on campus, the once-a-week student-cooked vegan thing) so I will probably go for a meatwad.

Nearest Timmie's is probably the one on the corner of Bloor and Bedford, a tiny bit west of the hotel.