Kerry Beal

Dinner tonight will be at Play Food and Wine - a small plates place owned by the owner of Beckta here in Ottawa Realized they had more than wine and showed Nigel the bar tender the Imbibe recipe for a Maximilian Affair. perused the menu - awaiting my first dish - the duck and pork terrine

Love it!

F*** Me - gorgeous!

Not to me - they must be Canadian breakfast sausages!

The sake and carrot purée was lovely!

It’s funny - when my dining companion saw me taking menu pictures she looked quizzical - I said ‘but my people like to see them’!

Another typical meeting breakfast included the sad sausages for your viewing pleasure

That is a thing of beauty - how does it compare to the dough you usually make your pizza with in terms of flavor etc?

It was a rather skimpy drink though!

didn't call out to me

Since they had St Germain - I knew they could mix me a Brother's Perryman. Butter with chives and some sort of peppers. Sadly out of focus sourdough. The lamb Sadly out of focus duck confit. The sous vide wine poached pear with other fruits.

As I imagine Germany to be!

Sun starting to go down behind the parliament buildings. Heading out for dinner shortly - at @Anna N's suggestion two of us are going to try a restaurant called the Courtyard which is in the Byward Market. We stopped in on our way back from the center and got a reservation for the only table possible at the time we chose. Don't think we would have gotten it if we had called.

Greek and lasagna

Nope - pork breakfast sausages

They were there. I failed to take their picture. Although I might dispute them being nice pork sausages

Bocce ball - something I haven’t seen for a few years!

Breakfast at the exam center

Ranch dressing is a creamy mixture of buttermilk, some sort of allium, herbs and spices then usually mixed with mayo. It seems to be traditionally served with battered and fried stuff that you'd find as pub grub. There is a thread going right now where people are trying to make the Momofuku version of ranch which is apparently heads and tails above the traditional. I am just starring to develop a tolerance for Brussels sprouts in my old age - I guess I grew up with the boiled version as well and the ones I've been enjoying have not been prepared that way!

Here until Monday. Shall have a look at those dinner options - need to determine who will join me for dinner tomorrow.

Mine seem to be on. Head outside and wave - I'll look out the window!

Had @Anna N looking up ideas for dinner for us. She came up with Thali Coconut Lagoon. So Karen, one of my fellow examiners, a doctor from Goose Bay, Labrador and I hopped in an Uber (her first) and headed off. Cider from Picton, Ontario (a big apple area), glass of house red for Karen. Chai Vegetable bhagi with mint chutney We each had a lamb thali - I think we could have shared one and still been stuffed!

The view out my window when I got back to my room.

Mid afternoon they brought out a very nice cheese board.

Lunch at the Westin pitched the Philly steak and got another grilled cheese