Photos, Wasting Time

Streets of Yorkville

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I would just love to spend a handful of months just walking and people watching around the streets of Toronto. Especially the uppity fashion district on Bay/Bloor.

A couple of weekends ago the Boyf and I attended a wedding at one of the University of Toronto halls and spent the next day walking around that particular part of Toronto. I decided to be a tourist and take a few snap shots while I was gazing at the stores that I dare not step in for fear that I wanted to buy a $2,000 Prada purse. Don’t want to be tempted!

I only wanted to go to two places when we were on our mini-vacation getaway to Toronto, and that was Sephora and Anthropologie.

I’d rather go to the Sephora up on Bay and Bloor area because it’s never as crowded and overly busy as the one in the Eaton Centre. The Eaton Centre one always runs out of products that you want to buy too. Plus, at the Bay/Bloor Sephora location there’s always someone to help you. I wanted to get color matched for a couple of foundations, but didn’t want to buy anything because I like getting freebies while ordering online — they give you the option from 9 different samples and you’ll always get to pick out 3 to receive with your order when you do so online.

Going into Anthropologie is a trip in itself. It’s a pretty expensive store, but you need to really love the place to buy things full price, or be on vacation in Edmonton (ahem). I headed straight to the sale rack to see what I could find. But then I overheard one female say to her mother, dressed in a faux (or was it real?) fur vest, freshly highlight hair (oh that so wasn’t real) looking quite expensive herself “Ahho mah. Mutha, I can’t get over how reasonable these prices are in here!” While she was picking up a cardigan and flicking it back down. After she put the sweater down, I pounced over to see what she was looking at, and how expensive it was. $148 for a cardigan! LOLOLOL. I laughed quietly right then and there. Of course the Boyf was with me, so he overheard and I wasn’t actually laughing like a lunatic by myself.

After I was done picking up the (Twist Of Fate) cardigan which was on 60% off its original $138 price tag that I tried on in Edmonton but was too pricey to purchase…

… we headed back to the hotel (ooh la la Marriott has nice rooms) to pick up our car and drove home. (Psst to see me wearing the T.O.F. cardigan I wore it in last weeks OOTWW.)

Ohh what a nice quick getaway to a foreign expensiveville Yorkville.

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In the Kitchen, Photos

Teriyaki no more

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I wish I had of taken a photo of my supper the other night. Instead I had to take a quick photo in a tiny bowl that I had at work just this past week. Mmm leftovers.

Picture this: A pasta bake sorta stir fry that has some Teriyaki sauce in it. Let’s make it photo-friendly with a lunchtime photo here, shall we?

I usually make my stir fry with Teriyaki sauce, pour some into your stiry fry (as much as you’d think you will need if you were ONLY using this).

Then I decided to get creative and splash in a few more ingredients, because I wasn’t really feelin’ the teriyaki that day.

  • A squeeze (I have a ‘tube’ of garlic in the fridge) of garlic… I have no idea how much it really equals out to. I’d say it was like 1/2 a teaspoon.
  • Dash of soy sauce – not too much because who knows if teriyaki and soy sauce really does go together. Don’t want to ruin the whole thing you know?
  • Dash of sesame oil, because I seemed to remember that I mixed either (sesame oil + teriyaki) or (sesame oil + soya sauce)
  • Worcestershire sauce. I don’t know how much to put in (I put in WAY too much) but it was still kind of tasty.
  • Splash of lemon juice (doesn’t everything taste a bit better with lemon juice)

Holy moses let me tell you. You need to make this. It was divine, so delish. While the boyf and I were chompin down on our dinner I told him to guess what I put in it. Of course he’s going to say he doesn’t know since he probably new it was one of my testing concoctions. I said Teriyaki and he’s all “It doesn’t taste like teriyaki at all.” Honestly folks? It just tastes like something you’d get at a restaurant, so many flavors in your mouth, but it blended so well together. I don’t think I could pick out the ingredients if I didn’t make it. I honestly couldn’t taste it and say “hey, there’s garlic, or lemon juice in this” I added chicken, mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, and green pepper. Mmm. Served on a nice bed of basmati rice.

I’m going to make this again soon, because it was that good. I’ll take a photo of it and post it on my recipe page. I’ll let you know when it’s up!

Also, I wanted to tell you all that it’s my puppy’s first birthday today! Alfie P. McDogg is one year old today. I think he deserves a trip to the pet store to get a treat, don’t you think?

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Fashion, OOTD, Photos

OOTWW

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This weeks Outfit of the Work Week comes with a bonus edition! How… exciting. I decided to post last Saturdays, primarily because I never wear that red fancy jacket that I purchased in Ireland (except for going out to formals/weddings, etc) and two — I bought two pairs of boots that I needed to show off. Remember if you would like to know where to buy anything I am wearing, just click the image below to enlarge it, and everything is posted below each image.



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