City Daily Photo Theme Day: Cooking

 The first day of each month is a theme day for members of City Daily Photo. For November, that theme is Cooking. Take a look at how others are interpreting this theme right here.

I am starting today with a shot from the archives, taken in 2017. This is Munross House in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood, taken during Doors Open. The house dates to 1874. Today it houses Signatures, a restaurant, and Le Cordon Bleu, a culinary school.

I should probably admit straight out that I don't cook. So this one I was finding a challenge. Until I thought of the main farmers' market, held at Lansdowne Park. Plenty of things to be found here for cooking.

If one comes to the market, one can expect to see dogs.

One of the vendors makes something called an arepa, first made among South American indigenous peoples. It's a cornmeal dough, fried into a patty, and filled with a variety of ingredients. I've had it before and like it.

My selection- ham and feta cheese, with some garlic sauce. It is quite filling.

Another treat. Centretown Halifax Donair and Pizza is a shop near my place, my go to for pizza. It is very much East Coast in design and hospitality, and this is a donair, a classic from the Atlantic provinces, particularly in Nova Scotia. The roots of the donair are in the doner, which has Greek and Turk origins. A Greek immigrant in Nova Scotia made the donair a distinctly Canadian institution- seasoned strips of grilled beef, onion, and tomato in a sweet sauce and wrapped in pita bread. It looks a mess, but my, is it delicious.

And another Canadian institution. I had dinner in the second half of October with a couple of friends at Great Canadian Poutinerie. The classic poutine- fries topped with gravy and cheese curds- also has a variety of different choices at this restaurant for additional toppings. On this occasion, I had one with ground beef, onion, pickles, barbecue sauce, and melted cheese.

One of the other guys had Buffalo chicken on top of his. I took a shot of the third choice- topped with bacon and grilled cheese bites. Good eating.