Long Weekend Relax

It's Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, and we are spending a nice quiet one at home. A nice bonus of being home while everyone else is running around, is we get to dog sit our favourite dog friend Alex.

Alex lived in British Columbia with my sisters-in-law until last week, when they all returned to Ontario and settled about an eight minute drive from us. We happily volunteered to dog-sit any time they need it and we hope this is the first of many hang outs we get to spend together. He is a real sweetie.

So we are having a low key Thanksgiving with our buddy Alex and some steak leftovers we have from yesterday. We cut some of our huge haul of meat into 6 oz steaks and enjoyed the first round of them last night. Second go is tonight. We have some mini potatoes that we mix with a spoonful of butter, chives, and cilantro for what is now my new favourite side dish.

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you are having a lovely weekend. :)

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!