{"id":124,"date":"2010-12-22T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2010-12-22T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:48:00","slug":"staycation-weekend-soup-parties-sadies-diner-and-vegan-donuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/staycation-weekend-soup-parties-sadies-diner-and-vegan-donuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Staycation weekend. Soup Parties, Sadie&#8217;s Diner, and vegan donuts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another great weekend in Toronto! So great that it took me until Wednesday to talk about it!<\/p>\n<p>Friends had a Winter Soup Party (which I think is an awesome idea, and more inclusive than a lot of other events happening around this time of year.) It was such a fun event. They had it catered in part by a vegan caterer here in Toronto (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegandelights.ca\/\">Vegan Delights<\/a>), who also makes bread, vegan and gluten free desserts. Yummy. I couldn&#8217;t get enough of these spicy fritters dipped in tamarind cilantro sauce, which is probably why I parked myself so near the food table. Best of all, one of my favourite people made delicious amazing chocolate peanut butter rice krispie squares again. I need the recipe. Badly. Mmm +1 Yummy.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks before, I had surveyed people on what kind of soup was their favourite, and no two people responded the same. I wouldn&#8217;t be able to answer that question at all. If it&#8217;s not obvious, I love eating, and it&#8217;s hard to pick favourites. Though I think it might be easy to spot when I&#8217;m really ecstatic about a place.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime after seeing Tron: Legacy (and I have a confession, I&#8217;ve never seen the original Tron, and I probably never will. So there.) we went over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sadiesdiner\">Sadie&#8217;s Diner<\/a>(504 Adelaide Street West Toronto, ON), where it almost looks like they have a new menu&#8230; though it&#8217;s been ages (6 week&#8230;) since I was last there. I&#8217;m ashamed to admit this, but I was going to order a veggie burger, up until my friend made fun of me and said I could get a veggie burger anywhere. And he was completely right. So I had a Cajun Tofu Quesadilla instead, which was a much better idea all around. (pardon the cellphone picture, it&#8217;s all I had)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5279402248\/\" title=\"Sadies Diner - Cellphone pix by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5169\/5279402248_8ac726ab28.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Sadies Diner - Cellphone pix\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>Sadie&#8217;s had some of the donuts from St. Catherine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/artisandoughnuts.blogspot.com\/\">Rise Above Bakery<\/a> (11 Summer St, Saint Catharines, ON) which was exciting because I had only heard about them this past Friday. We ate the absolute last one left, and I think they are probably much better fresh. Maybe some other time. Or maybe a drive to St. Catherine&#8217;s wouldn&#8217;t be entirely ridiculous (only&nbsp;a little bit.) They are so close to the bus station&#8230; and they are hosting a 5 Course Dinner on Tuesday December 28th. Uh&#8230; yum. Here is another cellphone picture that doesn&#8217;t quite do the donut justice:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5279402000\/\" title=\"Sadies Diner - Cellphone pix by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5124\/5279402000_6c3b12a14d.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Sadies Diner - Cellphone pix\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe end of the year completely snuck up on me! I guess I was too busy having fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great weekend in Toronto! So great that it took me until Wednesday to talk about it! Friends had a Winter Soup Party (which I think is an awesome idea, and more inclusive than a lot of other events happening around this time of year.) It was such a fun&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,101,4],"tags":[1376],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sadies-diner","category-toronto","category-vegan-food","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}