Snarfed up the last dredges of the meat sawce I made … sometime this week.
Almost forgot to take a pic before it was all in muh tummy 
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I headed out to go big bix store shopping yesterday. Hoping to make up for the bad lunch I had on Tuesday I was going to pay a visit to a favourite deli in the area for lunch. However I have been getting a hankering for a hot chicken/turkey sandwich lately and there happens to be an olde skool diner in the area that does a nice hot turkey sandwich so off I went. They usually have half a dozen specials on the menu which include either the soup of the day or juice to start, a main course and either rice pudding or jello for dessert. The soup of the day yesterday was split pea soup so that was my starter, then I had a hot turkey sandwich with mixed veg and either mashed potatoes or fries (I picked fries). I had the rice pudding for dessert. I’m pretty sure the soup is out of a can and I’m pretty sure the veggies are frozen but everything tasted good and it really hit the spot. Needless to say it more than made up for last Tuesday’s lunch.
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My kind of old school lunch! 
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The restaurant is on Merivale Road in the west end of Ottawa. There’s one big bix store after another in the area with a couple of discount grocers thrown in. There’s an ever growing east Indian population moving into the neighbourhood so there are a couple of Indian grocers in the area as well as a few Indian restaurants just past the shopping strip. It also seems to be a popular area to open Asian restaurants. With the combination of Indian and Chinese restaurants I keep hoping a hakka place will open… Then there’s this one lone diner in the area. At the age of 60 I’m usually the youngest one there 
but the food is good so I keep going back.
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Baked spaghetti, with (commercial) breadsticks and (bagged frozen) mixed vegetables. I made a half recipe of this Million Dollar Spaghetti in an 8x8 pan, and we’ll be having leftovers for 3 more meals. I liked it and my husband (predictably) said it was good but needed more meat. Guess I’ll note to use a whole pound of sausage even for a half-recipe. While not at all difficult, this did take me 1.5 hours - 40 minutes of prep before 30 minutes bake and 10 minutes rest. Given the time involved, whenI make it again I’ll do a full recipe and freeze half after baking, for future meals.
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Pernil over rice at today’s 5th annual Latin Festival. Great crowd, so many different nations representing in our little town 
Pernil was a bit salty, and that says a lot coming from me.
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Is there a Chinese restaurant you like?
The typhoon skirted us here in Taipei, but dumping lotsa rain. Took shelter in the local Carrefour (French market chain) to pick up some confectionery and other goodies for our nieces back in the States.
Foraged up a couple of items for ourselves for lunch. Not easy to decide with the great variety at very reasonable prices.
Reservations at a Shanghainese restaurant with friends tonight, so just a light lunch in our room to watch the rain.
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Not Chinese but Vietnamese - Merivale Noodle House. Their pho is really good! I’ve only been once though - I will have to fix that. The list of places I would like to try on Merivale is getting really long. I better work on it! I’m planning on heading back to the 'hood in November or December and the first place I would like to try on my bucket list is OK Mart. It’s a Korean grocery store with a counter in the back that sells Korean fried chicken 
my favourite!
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A staple for you yeah?
Do you use meat in it? I usually use Bacon and a TON of Scallions. Melted a slice of American Cheese over the last batch, great!
That sounds good! Sometimes I add bacon, but it was meatless Monday so none for this one. I’ll try the cheese sometime.
Reheat of the Million Dollar Spaghetti baked pasta for lunch today. I topped it with chopped pepperoni to increase the meat-level for my husband. Good carb and protein loading after our unplanned 3 hour morning workout, moving about 440 pounds (a bit more than half a cubic yard) of black dirt from a neighbor’s driveway - just 2 houses away - to our driveway and back yard. He had a DIY backyard landscaping project most of the summer, and in late August we 'd mentioned to him that we could use any extra dirt he had leftover to fill divots in our back yard. Last night he rang our doorbell and offered us the last of his tarped pile.
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Wow 440 lbs of dirt is a lot! How did you get it from your neighbour’s house to yours?..
Tuna and broccoli melts to use up the last of the broccoli that didn’t make it into this morning’s omelet
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We used the 3rd row back seat-well of the mini-van, protectively lined with 3 layers of tarp, as a giant bucket. Along with a large trash can we could fill 1/3 full and still lift into the side of the van, and 2 hardware five gallon utility buckets. Both of us shoveled dirt. Three trips, loading and unloading all containers. The buckets and trash can got immediately wheeled one at a time on a dolly into the back yard for unloading into the various divots. The van seat-well dirt got shoveled out onto a tarp in our driveway. We’ll move it before winter snow arrives, just not today.
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You must be in really good shape now! And you now have lots of dirt for evening out your lawn.
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