718. Anniversary Dinner at Blueblood

Last week my boyfriend and I had our anniversary dinner at Blueblood, a beautiful steakhouse inside Casa Loma. I really loved it. It was a great way to celebrate the best two years of my life so far!







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636. BlueBlood Steakhouse

For one of our dinners last week, my boyfriend and I went to BlueBlood Steakhouse at Casa Loma! I've been wanting to go for a long time because I love Casa Loma and the interiors of the restaurant are so beautiful. It was a great night and I always have good memories when we go there together :)



I got the "Down by the Bay" cocktail. It was nice and fruity.


As an appetizer we got the Prime Steak Tartare, which was served in a bone marrow canoe. It was sooo good!!

For the mains we got a Canadian Prime Rib Eye (which our server really insisted we try)..it was good but I thought there was too much fat. We also got a Japanese Wagyu A5 Striploin which I was curious to try as the only other time I had it was in Macau before (which was my favourite steak). As accompaniments we got the creamed corn and mashed potatoes. We were way too full by the end.

For dessert we had the Baked Alaska. I love this dessert and always get it (when it's available) at steakhouses. I love watching them make it. My favourite is still the one at Harbour Sixty though..since the outside is more like toasted marshmallow and inside it's hazelnut ice cream. Two of my favourite things!




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511. Recent Life

It seems summer is quickly coming to an end. I used to dread this time of year because of "back to school" but now that I'm no longer in school..I still get sad but not quite as much. Actually I'm looking forward to Fall/Autumn now because of the beautiful foliage and a change of wardrobe. I'm also very excited as I have several things coming up which includes some travelling and my condo renovations (which I am both excited and very stressed about). The renovations are an extremely long and expensive process but it'll all be worth it in the end I'm sure! I wish I could fast forward past this stage of planning and waiting.

I've also been quite busy these days working on my new website. I have been procrastinating on that a lot (seeing as I first created it back in 2014) but recently I put more time into it and want to make sure I stick to it. I will introduce it here in an upcoming post so I guess that way I will be more motivated to keep it active lol. Apparently it takes 3 weeks of regularly doing something to have it become a habit, so that is what I am aiming for.

Here are some random photos from the past few weeks:


If you are from Toronto as well, visiting the CNE is probably an annual tradition for you as well.






Caught a bit of the air show on the final weekend


While I was researching a topic for my new website I discovered this Thai style of ice cream where they make it in front of you (on cold plates) and serve it in rolls. I knew they had a place like this in New York but then I discovered Toronto recently opened a place for these as well..called Arctic Bites! I was very excited to try it out. The place was small with a huge line up but the ice cream was delicious. I got this black sesame one with grass jelly but I think next time I'll try a fruit flavoured one.




A dinner at Harbour Sixty



The largest shrimp I've ever seen


& my favourite dessert..the Baked Alaskan! It's everything I love in a dessert wrapped into one (toasted meringue/marshmallows with hazelnut ice cream inside, served with fruits) served in the coolest way.





I had this for lunch with my mom the other day and she told me it is a popular dish in the Yunnan province of China. They bring you a platter of ingredients, noodles and a boiling hot stone pot of broth. You put everything in there yourself as you eat. The origin of the name is pretty interesting, and the name is literally "Crossing the Bridge Noodles". The story is that a man was studying hard for his exams on a small island far away from home. His wife would bring him noodles but every time she crossed the bridge to the island, the soup would already be cold and the noodles soggy. She came up with an idea to fill a large earthen pot with boiling broth, with a thin layer of oil on top as insulation and keep the broth warm. The noodles and other ingredients were kept in separate containers to be mixed together when she arrived for him. & that is how the name, "Crossing the Bridge Noodles", came to be.



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463. Hy's Steakhouse / NYE Dinner

Hello everyone! Its been a while since I last updated..I was away last week at a cabin in Quebec (& after the holidays it's hard to get back to regular life). It was the perfect winter vacation. Wish we were still there. :( If you follow me on any of my other social media accounts you may have seen some photos. I will be posting about it here soon though!

So I just wanted to give you a short update and make a quick post before I get too behind. Here are some photos from New Year's Eve. We had dinner at Hy's Steakhouse. The photo above was the outfit I wore - my favourite white dress by AQAQ!


The set menu for NYE



Starters: Lobster Bisque and Smoked Atlantic Salmon


Mains: Beef Wellington and Roast Rack of Lamb


Desserts: Key Lime Pie and Mango Sorbet

& at midnight we got a champagne.

Hope you all had a wonderful new year!!

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462. Recent Life / Christmas Week

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and happy new year!! The chocolate in the photo above are from Nadege..the images are printed on the chocolate/not on the wrapper btw.

& Here are some more photos from my Christmas week:


Watching The Nutcracker! 3rd year in a row (& counting) we've seen this..

My festive Christmas outfit! Matches the Williams Sonoma bag. It was my favourite place this year for Christmas gifts and food. I kept going back there for more stuff, including:




My favourite drink for the winter = apple cider!

An early new year's dinner with my mom a couple nights ago. We ate at a restaurant called Day and Night. It's really good. We went there as well last year for Christmas dinner. It was a 5-course meal. I forgot to take a photo of the soup but I really loved it. It was a lobster bisque. Above is the caesar salad.


The butterfly garlic shrimp is so delicious..it's my favourite.


I got the salmon as the main course.


Dessert. I didn't really like it but they didn't have any other options for dessert.

Nadege is my other favourite shop this Christmas season. I bought a lot of their Christmas chocolate there as gifts and even some for myself. Most of their things look too good to eat. We got this large praline cake:



Niagara Falls on Christmas Day



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