The Neighborhood

So what/where exactly is Carling Avenue? Carling Avenue is a major road in Ottawa (that's the capital of Canada, for all you geographically challenged individuals). It's a long road, starting somewhere in Kanata, and ending at Bronson Avenue. It has loads of shops, apartment buildings, hospitals, restaurants, parks, car lots, shopping centres, a movie theatre, and a bunch of other things on it.The part that interests me the most is the area in a 30-minute radius around me.

Here I can walk around the neighborhood, baby in tow, buy a few bags of groceries or a few boxes of takeout, and make it back in time to make something scintillating for dinner. Okay, sometimes the results are not so scintillating, but that's not my fault - in those cases the recipe is clearly at fault. And that brings me to another point - this will be one thing distinguishing my beauteous blog from all those other, lesser blogs. I will not post recipes on this blog. None, nyet, nada. If you want a recipe for one of the mouthwatering items I talk about, go and ask Ms. Google. There are enough food & recipe blogs out there that my own slight culinary expertise will hardly make any contribution to gustatory world literature. But my opinions on other food matters such as how to choose the softest pita bread, sweetest chickoo, or freshest samosa, surely will be!

I shall also confine myself to discussing food items I have found on Carling Avenue. Well... at least, I shall do that most of the time. If I find something really fascinating on Richmond Ave. (a stone's throw from Carling), I shall include it, but primarily I will restrict myself to food finds from Carling.

Buen provechio, dear readers!