Beef Deals and a Beef Meal

We got a super fantastic beef deal on Friday. Giant roasts were on for $1.87/lb, and we got four of them, each weighing in at around 6 lbs. This is our favourite way to buy beef, because we cut them into smaller hunks so we have many options for cooking. The four roasts turned into fourteen 1.5 - 2lb portions that we froze and will use over the next few months as roasts, steaks, beef strips, or stewing meat. I have to say I am pretty excited about it and with winter coming I am loving that we have 24 lbs of meat in the freezer.

A 1 pound hunk of beef cut from a large roast

I'm really looking forward to turning these 14 hunks of beef in my freezer into many fabulous meals. If we cut the beef into strips we can make one of our favourites: fajitas.

A hunk of beef cut up into strips

Browning the beef strips and seasoning them with taco spice

Making my fajita: add beef and cheese

Add avocado and salsa

Add lettuce and roll up into an awesome hand held meal

Cream Cheese Cinnamon Buns #FoodPicFriday

I make a pretty good cinnamon bun, but I crave store bought ones from time to time. Especially the Cream Cheese Cinnamon Buns from Foodland. The cinnamon bun part is perfectly fine, but not the main draw. It's the full tilt slathering of cream cheese icing that makes these buns a winner. It is ridiculous and amazing and makes eating more than one extremely difficult.

Package of six cinnamon buns - look at all that icing!

Individual cinnamon bun

This post is part of Big Dude Likes Food #FoodPornFriday link up. Feel free to head on over to his blog and link up an awesome food post!

Car-niversary #3

I'm happy to say we are celebrating our third Car-niversay today. We had a rough summer with the car, but she has been on her best behaviour lately and I haven't had to buy her anything new for a while. Very happy about that.

It is a nice day out there, so as part of the anniversary celebration I'm going to give the car a good wash, windex all the windows, and maybe even vacuum out the inside. It will be a good way to get it nice and clean for winter.

Everything is a Photo Opportunity #20

The weather has been beautiful for much of October. A few rainy days, but mostly just bright sun and perfect for walking. I love fall colours and the rail trail doesn't disappoint to show off the beauty of this time of year. I'm attempting to soak in every moment of sunshine I can. Outdoors or bust!

Canton Restaurant #FoodPicFriday

John had a birthday a few weeks ago and his family always gets him a big Chinese food dinner to celebrate. Our favourite place to order from is Canton Restaurant in Midhurst, ON, and it is always worth the 25 minute drive (each way) to get it. We always order a tonne of food and basically have our own Chinese buffet at home.

From L-R:

(back row) Chicken balls, deep fried shrimp, egg rolls, chicken wings, almond soo guy

(middle row) Sweet and Sour sauce (it's giant!)

(front row) Cantonese Chow Mein, chicken fried rice, chicken chop suey, BBQ pork spareribs

I first discovered Canton Restaurant with my family when I was in highschool, and if I was ordering take out with them, chicken chop suey would be replaced with lemon chicken, and there would also be an order of deep fried wontons. No matter who I order with, the food is always excellent and there are plenty of delicious leftovers for lunch the next day.

This post is part of Big Dude Likes Food #FoodPornFriday link up. Feel free to head on over to his blog and link up an awesome food post!