Alex Asacker is a freelancer living in Toronto's West End. 
A delicious ‘grab bag’ meal!
I stopped by Mel Bell’s yesterday hoping to grab a ‘meal in a bag’ to cook for dinner that night. Mel Bell’s is a specialty shop located at 13 Randolph Place, near my flat in Edinburgh’s west end. After looking through the various options I chose a pasta dish with portabello mushrooms. When I left the shop I had a recipe in hand and all of the ingredients I would need to cook the meal myself at home.
The recipe was easy to follow and the food delicious. The meal consisted of portabello mushrooms roasted and stuffed with smokey bacon and leeks, topped with parmesan cheese. These were placed on top of a pasta with cream sauce and served with roasted cherry tomatoes. The tomatoes can be halved and mixed in with the pasta but I thought they looked pretty kept on the vine and put on the side. Yum!
