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So, starting off Burger Month with the offering from Broken Hill. They've won the last 2 (??) Burger months with a foie gras butter burger and I forget the other. The foie gras burger was excellent.
This is their current offering:
This was not excellent, nor a winner. Frankly, all the sweetness - caramelized onion, roasted apple aioli, apple cider jam, etc. made it more disgusting than good.
I ordered the side - cubed sweet potato, more aioli, the same. Too sweet.
This year they don't have a winner. And if they do win it's proof positive the game is fixed.
Now, probably I'll have to find a date and start splitting burgers, there's a few I actually WANT to try, that look tasty, but - this made me take Ron Swanson's side - a plain beef patty on a bun would have been infinitely better.
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There’s a couple, but I’d wanted to hit this one again, get my filling of leafy greens and vegetables. I choose the Chicken Caesar Wrap, with fried cauliflower as the mock chicken and some - initially tasty but soon repugnant processed food dressing. The side soup somehow manages to be even worse. Vegetable soup, a few scant vegetables boiled in the water they rinsed them with with a few scraps of kale thrown in. It’s appalling; and even the moral superiority of vegetarians doesn’t make this any better. These people, they’re cannibals. Vegetarian food doesn't have to be this bad. Never again.
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And this, a shoutout to the best grocery store in the Kootenay's, Ferraro Foods. A proper Italian Superstore with prices and selection that easily beat Save-On, Safeway and the Real Canadian Superstore.
But today I'm just in for a sandwich. Their sandwiches, a variety, cold cuts, mortadella, I go for the "Beef Dip". All are priced at $13.99. And after about 3-4 minutes when they're done making it I'm left with a 5 pound monstrosity in my hand.
I'm not kidding. It's loaded, a side of AuJus, double, triple the size of a Subway sub, 5X the meat, healthier vegetables, I'm going to be making my way there again soon...
You couldn't even buy the bun for that at Kootenay Coop, let-alone the meat and vegetables. 5 Stars, Ferraro Foods.
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And visited the Nelson Art Gallery today, the members show and sale, 40% to the gallery, the rest to the seller. Limited to one artwork per member, I was so impressed at the diversity of styles and the quality of work that I'm going again tonight to take down a few of the names of the artists. The Gallery, unfortunately, does not have their works posted on their website.
Interesting as well how I recognize some of the artists - their appearance frequently belies their talent.
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So I bought 3 of them, Daler-Rowney, Cyan, Magenta, Process Yellow, trying them out, experimenting, I doodle, sketch, these might be an asset. I like the colours, the vibrancy, not so sure about the mixing, the combining of blue-yellow to make green, or the red-blue to make purple(violet), but... I'm not a "Watercolour" sort of person, despite the abundance of supplies, but these might have a purpose above and beyond...
We'll see. I've got a lot of mixed-media paper and art supplies to be addressed and these may come in useful.
Now, where the fuck are my watercolour pencils and sharpeners?