BEDA - Day Twenty-One

Whew, another good, but long, day. I think I might try to keep this one short because it is almost 11pm and my bed is calling.

Today was a shopping day, my Mom came down around 10am and we hopped on a street car to the Eaton Centre. The mall wasn’t very busy yet, so we strolled around the stores commenting on what we liked and didn’t like. We bought a few things, Mom more than me due to my limited funds, and had lunch in the food court. I love shopping with my Mom because we have a similar style which is appropriate for both our ages. It is fun to help my Mom pick clothes, and it is always nice to see her get excited about an item. It was a successful shopping trip for sure, and we were so tired at the end that it felt like we really did shop until we dropped.

Later on my Mom and I met my Dad at the hotel that they are staying at. I have to take a minute to mention the awesome bed they had in their room. It was king size and it was the most comfy bed I’ve ever laid on, I never wanted to get up. We decided that we would spend the evening doing what the three of us love to do, dinner and a movie. We had a great dinner at Milestones, even though the waiter was little distracted at times, and then went to see The Vow.

When I was High School I rarely went out on a Friday night, and instead stayed home and watched movie with my parents. Over the years it sort of became our thing. We always love to watch movies together and then talk about them. Even still when I go home for visits, just me, we go and rent at least two movies a night. I love having movies in common with my parents and I believe that it has brought us closer together.

The Vow was a pretty good movie. I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I love Rachel McAdams, and I love to tell people that she went to York University which is where I went. I have been finding stories about people with brain injuries/problems interesting lately, and I think that is why I liked this movie so much. The brain is a strange thing that no one has really figured out completely, I think that the fact that the main character lost only part of her memory was really interesting because I don’t understand how that works. They filmed a few of scenes in Toronto, and it was fun to nudge my Dad and point out another place that I knew. The spots I recognized include: The AGO, Baldwin Street, and Casa Loma. I thought that they love story was totally believable, and when it is meant to be then it is meant to be. I can’t help it; I have a soft spot for “chick flicks”.

Well, now that I have typed this up I guess I head off to bed. Sleep just sounds so good right now after two long, but awesome, days.

Food - Shopping and Eating

I love grocery stores. They are full of possibilities, you walk it the front door and there is a varied selection of vegetables staring you in the face. I love to think about food and what I am going to buy when I go shopping for food. I love picking out groceries and finding where what I need is located. If I could I would spend a lot more on trips to the grocery store, but I don’t have a car and therefore can only buy what I can carry. I miss filling up shopping carts, and I hate having to restrict myself to one basket full. It’s a strange thought to have when you see something that you think you could use, but wonder how heavy it is because you still have to carry your groceries home. Sometimes I dream about having a fully stocked kitchen in which I can look up a recipe and know that I have the ingredients, instead I have to plan ahead and make a special trip. Now if only I was a better cook.

Alright, alright, I can cook. I’m not the best cook, but I can follow a recipe pretty good. Ok sometimes I fail miserably at the things I try to cook, but that is usually when I get experimental. I do have a few things that I can cook really well, and I do actually enjoy cooking. Well, I really enjoy eating. If I could hire a cook to make me amazing dinners every day I think that I would enjoy that a lot, and get really fat.

I think that my love of food is the reason that I want to learn to cook better. I have started to try to cook better, and a big help so far has been Jamie Oliver. His cooking shows make me excited to cook, and his cookbooks are easy to follow and, man, they have excellent recipes in them. I have four of Jamie Oliver’s cookbooks and I have learned to cook at least one thing out of each of them really well. For any beginning cooks I recommend Jamie Oliver’s books because they explain things that most cookbook authors just assume that everyone knows, and let me tell you I did not know some of these things before I started to cook. Jamie’s books have really made me enjoy cooking, and also be really proud of the things that I can now cook.

I have come up with a few things on my own, and one of my favourite things to make for lunch is a bagel sandwich. First thing that you do is toast the bagel in the frying pan, and then you fry some bacon until it is crispy, and then you fry an egg in the grease. You put the egg, bacon, a slice of Swiss cheese, and some mayonnaise on the bagel cut it down the middle and there you go! It is such a good sandwich, and really easy to do.

Here is a link to Jamie Oliver’s website where you can find a lot of really great recipes and tips to help you become a better a cook!

http://www.jamieoliver.com/