Did you know that if you have a case of food poisoning in Toronto you’re supposed to report it? No? Well, neither did I. But N did and so when I got sick and told him I wasn’t planning to file anything, he called them on my behalf.
It was super awkward when a health inspector called me at work to talk about my poop and barf. I giggled like a 4 year old and had to go into a meeting room to not gross out my coworkers (several of whom are probably reading this, oh well).
Anyway, one thing they asked was a food history of the 72 hours before the event. Have you ever had to recall everything you’d eaten in the past 3 days? While on holiday? And pigging out at a cottage? And making 5 course meals from scratch?
Yeah. Not easy.
Anyway, I chose key points from the previous days like the lamb and ice cream
But chose to leave out things like the home made beef cheek ravioli with a sauce made from chicken livers and butter! And the pretty yet delicious Halibut. Afterall the 5 other folks were fine, right? Not to mention, who’d believe we had pasta AND lamb AND fish AND homemade ice cream [and a bruschetta course too - not pictured] so no harm done
I also left out the dozen or so cookies because I was still in denial.
The other thing that was funny to me was the fact that they picked up left overs. No, I didn’t keep them because I wanted to eat what had made me sick - but once again N had suggested I take the leftovers (which I had planned to bring for lunch and tossed in the AM) out of the garbage and keep them. Lo and behold they actually picked them up from my place to test for, well, I don’t know. Anyway, if they find whatever it is they’re looking for they’ll let me know in about 3 weeks.
And yes, this post was an excuse to post food porn. This meal was all out of a Mario Bitali cookbook and more complicated than everything I made in 2009 put together so I was pretty proud to be a sous chef!
I love Pepper. I put it on almost everything, and always on my eggs. So it’s no surprise that I had the urge to Pepper up this fluffy frittata from Sarabeth’s in NYC.
Only thing is I didn’t know that the lid of the pepper shaker was not screwed on correctly. Result: a mound of pepper on my plate. I was laughing so hard, as were the folks sitting next to us. Even the server laughed as she took away my plate and had a new one brought to me.
And yes, I did add pepper to the replacement one too.
Nope, I ain’t tripping - just doing some Long Slow Distance running. Okay, a long slow distance run. But I’m still proud - it was my first one in weeks and was made fun by the presence of one Kathleen Trotter, a friend and butt kicking training (also, an Ironwoman). We busted out about 8km this morning - don’t know exactly how many since I didn’t reset Genki the Garmin before I started, so the run I did is recorded as having started on November 29th. Oops.
It’s Channukah! The time of year where I can eat fried foods because I’m supposed to, then gift myself with 8 pressies and feel entirely justified (for the pressies - the food just makes me feel ill).
Here’s what I’ve given myself so far:
Eyebrow shaping at Gee Beauty
Silk sleepmask from Gee beauty
Blowdry
New perfume
Another new perfume (I found the other one i liked at WINNERS!)
Pedicure
TBD
Looking for ideas for the last one. Thinking of a flour sifter. Uber exciting.
I was happy to pay $10 more to come to you instead of my normal dealer to get my snow tires put on because you are so close to my office and will drop me off. Then your service dude quoted me a price $20 more than what I was told on the phone yesterday. I got him to match the quoted price.
Then he told me I needed my tires Aligned at the cost of $100. I asked if I needed to have the alignment done. He said yes (without even checking my car). I told him I’d go elsewhere, at which point he offered to charge me half of the cost for the alignment. No thanks. I’ll take my car to my normal place.
It was only then that he said I didn’t have to get the alignment. Wasn’t that what I had asked in the first place? Sigh.
I might not know much about cars, but I’m not an idiot. And I definitely don’t like being lied to.
Love,
jenn
P.S. It took more than an hour from when I dropped off my car to arriving at my office (a 5min drive away) so next time I’ll think extra hard about whether the time I save is worth the aggravation of being lied to!
Hailey Hacks is an innovative project by Jill Golick which is a series of web videos that show 8-13 year olds all kinds of cool things they can do with their computers. Like how to make your own lolcats
Now that my birthday is done and folks have stopped asking what I want, of course I have come up with a bunch of items that i kinda sorta wish I had thought of before. Not to worry - Hailey is to the rescue with her latest video on how to use Wish Lists! So with Hailey’s help I’ll get a head start for next year — or maybe the Channukah fairy will stop by my Menorah!
