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Greece: Santorini, McDaniels

I don't recall the location of McDaniels, but boy was it packed (a good sign, no?)

Tasty gyros at a decent price. Although not really a sit down restaurant, we did manage to snag a couple of stools to sit on. It was mighty delicious and the fries were fresh - the bonus is the fries IN the gyro, like we had in Mykonos. #BESTTHINGEVER

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tags: Chicken, Greece, Santorini, french fries, fries, gyros, pork, santorini food
categories: Greece, Greek, Road-side, Santorini, Snack, Souvlaki, Take-out, Travel, fries
Tuesday 06.12.12
Posted by Smita Jacob
Comments: 3
 

Greece: Mykonos, Snack + Sunset

One of the best things to do no matter where you are, is a picnic outdoors whilst watching the sun go down.

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tags: Chocolates, Greece, Greek food, Mykonos, Sandwiches, beers, chocolate, greek, greek beer, sunset, travel, travel foods
categories: Beer, Chocolates, Greece, Greek, Outdoors, Road-side, Romance, Sandwiches, Travel, fries
Wednesday 04.18.12
Posted by Smita Jacob
Comments: 9
 

PYO: Farmer's Market

The Farmer's Market on Thursdays is kind of fun...it's a bit of the burbs in the city.

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tags: Andrew, Andrews' Scenic Acres, Beamsville, Blueberries, Burbs, Corn, Toronto, Warner's Farm, apple crumble, city, farm, farmer's market
categories: Burbs, P.Y.O (Pick Your Own), Road-side, Toronto
Thursday 08.13.09
Posted by Smita Jacob
Comments: 4
 

PYO: Pumpkin Pickin'


This was our first time visiting Andrews' Scenic Acres and it seems to be the most popular!

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tags: Andrews' Scenic Acres, Fresh, Halloween, Ontario, PYO, Pick Your Own, farm, fruit, pumpkins
categories: Halloween, Organic, Outdoors, P.Y.O (Pick Your Own), Road-side, Travel
Sunday 10.19.08
Posted by Smita Jacob
Comments: 1
 

PYO: Cherry Picking

Locations:

E.D. Smith Cherry Farm
980 Highway #8, Winona, Ontario

Puddicombe Estate Farms & Winery
1468 #8 Hwy, Winona, Ontario

All summer long I'd been meaning to go strawberry picking...which by late summer had turned into peach-picking. Finally, when the opportunity for anything-picking came up, our GPS was eagerly set up to locate the E.D. Smith farm. Unfortunately, E.D. remained a mysterious location on our GPS, but our old-fashioned road-trip technique of stop-and-ask-for-directions worked out perfectly and brought us to E.D's gate which...was CLOSED?!?! You had to be kidding me.

Good thing our GPS located another farm close by. Puddicombe!



For cherry, apple and pear picking.





Didn't look like there was anything to be picked when we got there though. We were too late for cherries and too early for pears or apples. The boy behind the outdoor stall mentioned heavy rainfall having ruined the cherry crops, but the Puddicombe railway and petting zoo was open. None of us were five years old however, so we decided to taste some wine, instead. Blueberry, raspberry, cranberry and pear. Deeeellliiiiicious! Our journey wasn't completely wasted; we bought a couple of bottles of blueberry wine and called it a day.

As for pear-picking? Maybe next year.

tags: Cherry farm, E.D Smith Cherry Farm, Fresh, Ontario, PYO, Pick Your Own, Puddicome, Winona, cherries, cherry picking, farm, farms
categories: Farm fresh, Outdoors, P.Y.O (Pick Your Own), Road-side, Travel
Tuesday 08.12.08
Posted by Smita Jacob
 

Trinidad: Richard's Bake and Shark

There's nothing better than eating outdoors (I think) - bits of dirt and grime add just that lil' som-som to your meal. And there's definitely nothing better than eating on a sandy beach after a salty dip in the ocean.



Richard's Bake and Shark is the best kind of beach meal, too. And at TT$25 (or US$4) there's simply nothing better.



Richard. I tink.

On Trinidad's Maracas Beach there's really only one thing to eat. A Bake and Shark burger. The 'bake' means fry-bake and it looks like a deep fried bun slivered in half and the 'shark' is exactly that, battered and deep fried.





What makes Richard's stand out from the rest of the beach's 'bake and shark' is the type of toppings you are invited to drown your burger with.



Under Richard's bright red canopy lie several metal dishes containing a variety of toppings with your standard lettuce, tomatoes, onions, ketchup and mustard but then ingenious others like tamarind sauce, cilantro/coriander (Chadon Bene perhaps?) sauce, garlic sauce, spiced pineapples, cabbage, mango chutney, a thousand island type of sauce and.....the mother of all hot sauces.

(On a side note: What I learned is, if you want to try the hot sauce in Trini, you may as well eat it IN the bathroom...'cause that would save a lot of time, really).



Er...aaaanyway...if you're still reading this and weren't repulsed by my toilet banter.... basically you come away (after it's wrapped and placed into a cardboard box for you by the gentleman at the head of the condiment table) with your bake and shark looking like this:



And it is simply the. best. thing. ever.

It's worth the trip to Trinidad.

tags: Bake and Shark burger, Chadonmother of all hot sauces, Richard's Bake and Shark, Trinidad, Trinidad Richard's, Trinidad shark n bake, Trinidad's Maracas Beach, Trinidad: Richard's Bake and Shark, a thousand island type of sauce, bake n shark, cabbage, cilantro/coriander (Chadon Bene perhaps?) sauce
categories: Road-side, Travel, Trinidad
Friday 05.30.08
Posted by Smita Jacob
Comments: 8
 

PYO: Apple Picking in Milton

Location:

6063 Fifth Line
Milton, Ontario

An apple a day.....is what I've been having ever since we went apple picking on Sunday at the Willis Family Fruit Farm in Milton.





Jonagolds, Golden Russets, Empires, Courtlands and Mutsus were all ready to be picked...and pick we did.









I think it really does make a difference picking your own fruit - the apples are crispy, juicy and delicious and the Empires are still waiting to be made into an apple crumble!

tags: Farm fresh, Fresh, Milton, Ontario, PYO, Pick Your Own, Willis Family Fruit Farm, apple, apples, farm, fruit, fruit picking
categories: Farm fresh, Organic, Outdoors, P.Y.O (Pick Your Own), Road-side, Travel
Sunday 09.24.06
Posted by Smita Jacob