ottawa times

Most of you know that I have been in Ottawa for the past couple of weeks and will be here until Nov. 24th. I wanted to take the fall off to visit my family for Thanksgiving, go to the Gold Plate Challenge that my brother has been invited to compete in again for the second year (last year he got the Silver Medal) and to be close by for when Jen's twins are born in mid November, if they can hold out that long. Jen is in St. Catharine's now for good.

The Gold Plate Challenge was last night where Matt got Sheila (his wife) and me in. It was so much fun and I am so proud of my bro for getting the 2nd place again (should have been gold in my and many others opinions...but Silver is awesome). Here are some pics...



Below is a picture of the dish (the photo totally doesn't do it justice) - it was espresso coated ostrich and butter poached lobster with sour cherry. It was so perfectly cooked (amazing for feeding 400+ people) and it was so beautiful! Sheila and I could have had 2...maybe 3 plates!



Here is a picture of Matt is his very talented team.



Here is Matt accepting his very heavy Silver Medal.



Sheila, Matt and I.



Jim Cuddy performed as well and we of course got our pictures with him. Very cool guy!!!




Here is his guitar...thought David would appreciate that...