we headed out to the Moroccan Castle for dinner tonight. Evan is now a big fan of chickpeas, couscous, and eating in fake tents.
Tag: food
pick-up
we stopped for a quick bite while running Sunday errands.
sprinkles and pyrotechnics
Evan made me a cake for my birthday (a day late, due to technical difficulties). It was a fantastic cake. Sprinkles galore. And sparkles. Can’t beat it.
la familia
some of the extended family, gathered at a local factory restaurant to celebrate one of the young’ns’ birthday.
marketing in motion
patrons of the Calgary Farmer’s Market move through the aisles, in search of fresh free-range organic local foods trucked in from BC.
the logical consequence of global scale food production
Reading Anthony Bourdain’s *Medium Raw* and was struck by this passage. I’d heard it before (possibly from the same place Anthony did), but reading the way “hamburger” patties are produced by global meatco Cargill makes my intestine crawl. iBooks doesn’t like copy/paste, so here’s a screengrab:
>![iBooks Medium Raw Uruguian Coliform Trailings Screengrab](http://www.darcynorman.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/p_480_320_D12716CD-176A-4DB8-9872-98E06AB7DEF4.jpeg)
The fact that it’s economically viable to ship coliform bacteria laden meat trimmings from Uruguay, to be treated with chemicals to kill the fecally introduced bugs, before going into an übergrinder to be mixed with trailings trucked from plants around the rest of the continent? disturbing. That we’d buy this crap (literally, crap) to save a few cents on a beef-like hockey puck? even more disturbing. I haven’t bought prefab patties in maybe a decade, but still… I wonder what other parts of the supermarket are infested with this type of practice.
Man Week™ Dietary Assault™
I’ve actually been feeding The Boy™ pretty well. With fruits and vegetables and everything. I know! We decided to clog our arteries with a big old pepperoni pizza tonight.
umbrellar
lunch on the patio at the Black Lung. definitely need to do that more often. maybe after the construction noise dies down a little…
sir loin
chile habañero
we drove out to Salt and Pepper in Cochrane for supper, for All You Can Eat Taco Night. Mmmmmmm!