POSTS IN Ottawa

Buy locally, it tastes great!

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a few weeks, but things have been a bit busy. I changed jobs at the beginning of the month, and we’re hosting our first open house this coming weekend, so I’ve been helping with getting ready for that. But I just noticed my camera sitting on the […]

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Easter Weekend Part 2: Tofurky

Even though we don’t celebrate Easter, we do feel it’s a good excuse to cook a nice meal. And this year we decided to do something fun: buy a tofurky and try it out. Now, this wasn’t our first experience with tofurky, as we’d bought some of the slices to make hot ‘turkey’ sandwiches a […]

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Easter Weekend Part 1: A’roma Meze

Neither Rich or I celebrate Easter, but it is a good time to enjoy some wonderful food and drink, given that we have several days off in a row. For our first foodie experience of the long weekend, we decided to hit A’roma Meze, located downtown, in the space where Fiore once was. According to […]

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Bridgehead Coffeehouse

Date square at Bridgehead Originally uploaded by mendel. Rich and I have been going to Bridgehead for a few years now. Previous to finding their coffeehouses, I’d frequented either The Second Cup or Timothy’s Coffee, because they were what was most available to me where I lived in the Southeast end of the city. I’d […]

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A belated Valentine’s Dinner

Valentine’s day this year fell in the middle of the week, on the day of the worst storm so far this winter. So needless to say, it wasn’t a terribly good day for us to do much. Besides, we don’t really feel we need a specific day to say we love each other; we do […]

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