Happy (late) Easter!

How was everyone's weekend?

I had a weekend full of food and some drink with more food!

My weekend started off at Luxalune in South Osborne where they have the famous Farmery Beer, a Manitoba product which is served on tap. Bonus!

I also nibbled on some grilled cheese that were the "cutest" I have ever seen. I kid you not, that's how they are described on the menu. Not sure about cute but they were delicious! There was cheese, pesto and tomato between those fried pieces of bread.

This mug was sure cute! I wanted to purchase one but they were sold out unfortunately. Next time!

Then on Friday, M. and I had a couple friends over for dinner and we made a black bean lasagna and chocolate cookies.

We topped the lasagna with Daiya vegan cheese. This is the second time i've made it and this time, we added some coconut cream to make the tofu ricotta-like layer more creamy. It was really excellent. Everyone went for seconds! The recipe will be posted soon.  

For dessert, my friend A. made a cookie that had quite a kick! It's called a Mexican Chocolate Snickerdoodles and it had 1/2 a tsp of cayenne. I am not one for spicy things, and the cayenne was a little much but this cookie had a great texture and the chocolate still came through the heat. It was fun cookie to eat!

On Sunday, M. and I found these goodies that the Easter bunny left for us!

We savoured these truffles from Godiva. Starting at the top, they are chocolate caramels with sea salt, and with the closest to the bottom for the truffles, in white chocolate was the caramel brule, to the left was the red velvet, to the right of that was the dark chocolate with raspberry and finally... 

The bunny rabbit! Which was a chocolate mousse covered in a milk chocolate shell. Our favourite. 

For Easter supper, I was asked to bring a dessert. I decided to make blondies. 

But look at this Easter feast that was waiting for us!

We feasted on perogies, buns, scalped potatoes, asparagus, greek salad, cheese plate, veggie platter. There were some meat options too.  

Everyone was loving the food. Even this gal here ended up getting a few treats.

For dessert, I had a jello type cake, blondie and some mini eggs. 

Finally, a key lime cheesecake. 

What a weekend!