Deep & Delicious
Mmmm...Mc Cain Deep & Delicious cake is the frozen cake that we grew up on. Back in TO and at a corner shop near AK's condo I re-acquainted myself with at all the foods that I missed while being in the UK.

Hickory Sticks, Mr. Christie Cookies, Bick's Pickles(the best pickles in Canada) and the Mc Cain cake selection. The cake is white and fluffy and has the best icing. I didn't read the ingredients because I would not like them am sure but it is delicious.

Bought the 'white flavour' cake and enjoyed it with some random food items like pickles, samosas, pita and salsa and beef and vegetable patties (like I used to have in high school). It was all washed down with a cup of green tea with mint. Weird but yummy!

Don't ask me why we had this weird combo but the corner shop near his place made a pretty penny off us as they sell everything at double the price. I even persuaded AK to not get some plastic pot noodle soup as we had enough random food stuff..

The Esplanade entertainment of the day was watching the store owner drill steel bars to the shop's door in her high heels and using an electric power drill...

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Esplanade Lasagna

Not sure if I am not used to Canadian prices but the Dominion on the Esplanade seems to be outrageously expensive and the queue to pay for your groceries insanely long. AK says this is b.c. everyone wants to do their grocery shopping Sunday night but I think it is probably just bad service. Tip 1: Go to the bakery cashier tucked in the back to escape the pain. Tip 2: Dominion, get on it - pick up your heels!

As you see AK made a vegetable lasagna with the no-bake lasagna sheets, I like the idea of them but I recall my mom making lasagna and it being such a lengthy process which needed skill. She would boil the sheets making sure not to over cook them and make them perfect for the layering process, then she would wipe off excess water with a graceful motion with her hands, lay them to dry a little and then layer them being careful not to rip them etc. etc. Now all you do is plop them in the pan, ladle your ready made sauce on top, add cheese and bake. Pretty easy and requires less pots and washing up :)

Well it was a nice evening filled with lots of 1990s dance moves and as you can see AK almost lost his lasagna when trying to display it for the camera prob b.c. it came in with a dance move! Note to self: deny him any job as a food stylist if he offers as this is what his meal ended up looking like. But it was yummy! Thx!