Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Turkish Cuisine

beef pide

grilled platter

 
all gone!

We tried a restaurant new to us recently.  Daughter L and even my sister in California had seen these Tik Tok and Instagram videos featuring Bosphorus Turkish Cuisine restaurant.  It was sooo delicious!  I believe it is healthy too if you don't count the desserts such as baklava.  The grilled platter for 2 was enough to feed all 5 of us.  The restaurant is very simple although busy.  They are not licenced to serve alcohol.

We have actually been to Turkey a long time ago, but I don't remember the food being so delicious!

Turkish coffee, Turkish ice cream, caramelized milk pudding

Monday, March 4, 2024

Orchid fertilizer


 I finally got around to getting some orchid fertilizer for my small plant.  Home depot has this convenient spray mist that I have started using once a week on the leaves and roots in between waterings.  I put an ice cube on the small plant weekly for watering.  Maybe it will flower again one of these days!

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Sunday Smiles - Rosemary Water


 So I boiled this batch of rosemary water from fresh rosemary for about 20 minutes and it is ready for use. Apparently it promotes hair growth. Daughter L swears by it and persuaded my son to use it. It just requires a daily squirt onto your hair.  It smells good.  I put this bottle in the refrigerator.

They both have thick heads of hair but my daughter said she had a bare spot by her temples. Seriously my hair is thinning in old age but I don't believe in such things. Maybe you would like to try this?

 Linking to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Scammed

 Well these 2 young men came knocking on our door offering an unreal cell phone package from Telus, a cellular phone company here.  We signed up.  Later that night daughter L, who was considering doing the same, found a link detailing Telus third party scams in Calgary.  We live in Toronto.  Husband M called Telus and sure enough the package was too good to be true.  It was a headache reversing these transactions involving many phone calls back and forth and going to the local mall to get the number ported back over to our original Fido provider.  The perpetrators will be disciplined.  They work for a third party Telus company.

The good part is that Fido gave us a good deal to come back, better than what we had before.

So no more door to door dealings in future.  Will  we ever learn?

Friday, March 1, 2024

Friday Art - Indian Paradise Flycatcher


 Welcome to Friday Art!  This is an Indian Paradise Flycatcher. It is an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") in watercolour pencil and acrylic marker.

Linking to Nicole's Friday Face Off and to Gillena's Art For Fun Friday.

And welcome to March!

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Eggs


Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date!  Here is my 'Eggs' still life for this week's theme! 

Rain's post is delayed due to a power outage I noticed.

It is a leap year, this end of February!

For the dinner date, sharing this yorkshire pudding that daughter L made from a package of Clubhouse Yorkshire pudding mix.  She just added an egg and used some oil.




Wednesday, February 28, 2024