armenian kitchen

Yay, finished my Christmas shopping! Just need to finish wrapping gifts now. I'm a terrible gift wrapper, by the way. I don't use the proper tape or take the time to fold corners exactly, so my gifts always look as though a somewhat uncoordinated child has wrapped them. But then again, I unwrap gifts in a similar fashion, taking joy in ripping off the paper.

A poll: Do you unwrap the same way, or do you fold/save your paper? I do save the ribbons if they're especially pretty.

Jeff and I had dinner with our friends Bonnie and Georges at the Armenian Kitchen last night. I've never had Armenian food before, so was pretty excited about this. We shared a bunch of appetizers: baked tomato, foule (fava beans), baba ghanouge (eggplant spread), hummos with chicken, fatouche (salad with mint, sumach, lemon, tomato, cucumber, onion). I liked everything, but especially the baba ghanouge. I could probably have eaten a vat of it for my meal, along with pita bread.

I ordered chicken shawarma for a main course, but was so full of appetizers by that point that I had to take most of it home. Did have enough room for some anisette tea and mhalabia (custard with rose water) after dinner, though. I had no idea that rose water was edible; Georges told me that many Armenian desserts use rose water.

For those in Toronto who want to try the Armenian Kitchen, the contact info is 1646 Victoria Park Ave. in North York, 416-757-7722. They do delivery, but unfortunately not in our area. :-(





Links/News:

The list of people who have cheered for Shane is growing.

I mistakenly attributed the Figwit URL to Ray yesterday. Who did send me this link? I deleted the original e-mail, sorry, and would like to properly credit you; please let me know.

One year ago, I ranted about the Lord of the Rings sneak preview. I was glad to see that the theatres openly advertised the midnight showing this time around instead of delaying announcement of the extra showing until the last minute.

Three years ago, I received a message from God.

Four years ago, I talked about Frank Mrowka, a young penpal I befriended through a red balloon many years ago. I recently heard from a relative of Frank's; apparently Frank's all grown up now, but still remembers our correspondence. :-)

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Nutcracker at Ginny's place.
	A Christmas ornament I made for Ginny years ago. I used to make one-of-a-kind felt Christmas ornaments and fridge magnets for friends, back when we lived out in the country. Allison still has two of these on her fridge, a crazed-looking mouse and a Christmas cat.