1. When you arrive, ask information for where the “192 Airport Rocket Bus” departs. For Terminal 3, the bus stop should be outdoors on the arrivals level, across the first lane of traffic at post #13c . You might have to wait 20 minutes so dress warmly.
2. Have $2.75 $3.00 Canadian ready. If you don’t have it, buy some chips or a drink or ask someone for change, or ask at the information counter if they sell TTC Tokens or TTC Tickets (TTC=Toronto Transit, the tokens and tickets are $2.75).
3. Take the “192 Airport Rocket” bus to Kipling Station. Pay the driver $2.75 $3.00 when you board the bus (or pay with a token)–this one fare takes you all the way to our apartment. From Terminal 3, the bus first passes by terminal 1 and some other stops, but don’t worry, you’ll know that it’s Kipling Station because the bus will pull in and everyone will get off and go inside the station. The Airport Rocket just goes from Kipling to the Airport and back with only a few stops in between. The ride is about 20 minutes.
4. Go inside the Kipling station and down into the subway–you don’t have to pay anything extra.
5. Take the subway EAST to Dundas West station–Kipling is the end station, so you can ONLY go east.
6. At Dundas West station, go upstairs and outside following the signs that say “Buses and Streetcars”. Do not go through any exit turnstiles–there is a waiting area for the buses/streetcars so you can transfer without paying an additional fee.
7. Take the 504 King Street streetcar south to our Apt. You will pass Howard Park and you get off at Geoffrey St.

This is my version of our favorite from a local Thai restaurant.  If you want a strictly vegetarian version, use half soy sauce half rice wine vinegar instead of fish sauce.  If you want more protein, you can throw some tofu in along with the eggplant and carrots.

Mel and I can’t get enough of this.  It goes well with my Spicy Eggplant recipe.  I make it in the rice cooker:

  • 2 cups jasmine rice
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 can of coconut milk

First, I wash the rice, then add the coconut milk and water.  The trick is to fold the rice a couple of times as it cooks, in order to move the coconut milk down into the rice.  Without folding, the coconut milk will just collect on the surface.
Also, when the rice cooker turns off, give the rice one more quick flip, and then let it sit to absorb the coconut milk.

Oden is my favorite Japanese winter food (ah, seasonal, those Japanese) and is best prepared in a Crock pot (slow cooker for the brand sensitive among you.)

The longer you cook oden, the better it tastes.  For best results, start the night before and set your cooker on low for up to 24 hours. On the low setting, I find that my oden starts to really taste like oden only after 12 or 14 hours, and really starts tasting good at the 20 hour mark.

Here’s what I use for a vegetarian version:

Ignoring Apple’s current and enormously successful “I’m-a-hipster-Mac-and-I’m-a-loser-pc” advertising strategy, I’ve come up with 6 items that I think should be included with with every Mac to make the system easier for brand new users and particularly for older new users. These issues come from my real-world attempts to teach my dad how to use his new Mac and the frustration he experienced with an operating system that—to his newbie eyes—behaved inconsistently.
Steve! Pay attention here, please! New users are feeling left behind with the MacOS!

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