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<\/a><\/p>\nIt was delivered in a giant 70lbs box, and upon opening it, I was immediately transported to less happy times, putting together Swedish furniture. But luckily, it was really easy, and the instructions and pieces made logical sense, so putting it together was a breeze. The major selling points for this BBQ for me were the specialized veggie grilling basket and pizza stone.<\/p>\n
Grillingwise, things turned out quite well. Yesterday we grilled up the giant zucchini we got from Fresh City Farms on Wednesday, leftover eggplant, and some Gardein<\/a> Burgers on it. It was Grilltacular.<\/p>\n Other things I’m loving and excited about:<\/strong><\/p>\n – I’m posting this on Friday, and I don’t care. On Wednesday I successfully put together the BBQ I ordered for JC\u2019s birthday (which was on Saturday). It was delivered in a giant 70lbs box, and upon opening it, I was immediately transported to less happy times, putting together Swedish furniture. But luckily, it was really easy, and the instructions...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,315,356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-love-thursday","category-tilt","category-toronto-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n– Next week JC and I will be in Edmonton and I’m so looking forward to it. I miss my friends and family, I miss the familiar places, and I’m looking forward to being a tourist in my hometown (AND especially looking forward to showing JC around town!)
\n– Vegan Food swap<\/a> – always.
\n– Using my technical skills to help local (and not-so-local) organizations do cool stuff.
\n– Farmers Markets. This week it was Tuesday’s Trinity Bellwoods<\/a> (for Vegan Empanadas<\/a> from Bus Kitchen and Niagara Peaches) and Thursday’s Dufferin Grove Farmers Market for Spring Rolls<\/a> from Earth and City<\/a>.
\n– Creative baked goods.
\n– Hot and Spicy Festival<\/a>\u00a0at the Harbourfront Centre this weekend.
\n– Toronto Beer Festival<\/a> next week. Vegan friendly beer guide coming very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"