Ryebread, anyone?

Lately I've been eating lots of sandwiches. Or bread in general. For breakfast, I've had bagels and toast in our residence, bought breakfast bagels and sandwiches from places like Timothy's, Tim Horton's and Druxie's. For lunch, I've enjoyed the subs of Subway and Quiznos as well as the sandwiches of Wendy's, Druxie's and couple different cornerstores. I've also bought more than once a bagel from Dominion's to accompany my salad or sushi lunch. For dinner, I've eaten BLT and chicken sandwiches at Bedford Academy and other cosy bar-restaurants that Toronto (especially the area of U of T) is full of.

Besides having various breads in various places (of which many ends with 's), I've been enjoying a variety of flavours from sesame seed bagels to blueberry bagels and from full grain toast to parmesan-oregano subs. Most of the sandwiches I've eaten have been great and I have especially enjoyed the offerings of Druxie's Deli Sandwiches and Quiznos subs that wipe the floor with Subway's. However, I just miss one thing. Good old rye bread.

Back in Finland it is all I eat as it comes to bread. It is nice to have some variety and break out from your habits every now and then, put it is not so nice when you do not have the option of including the rye bread among the variety of other breads. Because, believe me or not, after a while even the most "fullgrained" toast doesn't satisfy my need for authentic, almost black, rye bread.

Fortunately last weekend, while celebrating juhannus (midsummer) I had twice the opportunity to feast on rye bread. First, Heini had brought some varrasleipa from a Finnish store located near her work, Suomi-koti nursing home. Second, while spending the weekend at Gordon and Katri West's cottage (thank you!), Katri offered us some dried ryebread that tasted just heavenly. Crunchy and full of fibres, what else you can expect?

To finish off, I'd like to say that this post is not about complaining the offerings that Canada has in terms of bread, but rather show my appreciaton to the original Finnish rye bread that is sometimes hard to come around with abroad. I can survive without it quite well, but usually it is the only thing* I truly miss while being away for a longer time (*= things NOT including family, friends or random people I've met). This post is also to make myself a mental note of how stupid I sometimes am. My family is flying over to Canada today and on Sunday night they asked if I wanted something from Finland. My answer was straight and clear NO back then. However, this morning, after enjoying Druxie's BLT bagel for breakfast, my mind changed. If they hadn't already boarded the plane, I would have sended them a sms requesting for package of fresh Vaasan Ruispalat. Well, it is about lunch time and I'll be heading out to check what sandwiches are on sale today:D