It's Saturday and it's cold and damp and generally, an ugly day. Myron and I headed down to the St. Lawrence Market to see if we could find some inspiration for tonight's dinner.
We are so lucky (see previous post!) to live in a city, in a country where food is so abundant. We walked up and down each aisle (mostly because Myron is a bit OCD when it comes to stuff like that) and took in all the sites and smells that the Market has to offer. The meat, the fish, the produce, the cheese!! Don't, I repeat, don't go there when you are hungry. Bad idea. You'll buy everything in site and probably eat a lot of it on the way home. You can find every cut of meat you want. Want ostrich? They've got it. Bison? Check. Camel steak? Yup. I kid you not.
We decided on lamb as I had a recipe for Lamb Korma with Cucumber Raita in one of my crockpot cookbooks. I'm in a crockpot mood lately and that is a sure sign of fall/winter comfort food. Tomorrow is Honey Hoisin Chicken.
We got all of our meat and poultry and then headed downstairs for the spices and rice. Who knew that there are so many types of rice? We decided on the "aged" basmati and it was incredibly flavourful.
On our way out, hunger won out and we bought a plate of ocean smelts and fries. It's something we've wanted to try (the smelts) and now we've done it. Didn't like it enough to do it again.
St. Lawrence Market is a gem in our city that I don't use often enough. That is going to change.
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