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LIZ HEATHER

August 3, 2025

The Best of July 2025

by Liz Heather in Family, Food, Links, Movies, Personal, Recipes, Television


That was the fastest month of all time, yeah? Here’s what happened!

  • I continued to write my Summer Saturdays series.

  • The best tweets of the month are over here.

  • Took my brother and nephews to do an impromptu cake tasting!

Cake tasting

  • Speaking of cakes, are we all aware of how good the La Rocca ones are? I tried their strawberry white chocolate this month and it was delicious. Their best one remains the caramel crunch one, though. Best grocery store cakes of all time.

La Rocca strawberry cake

  • My niece Tianna and I stayed at Pillar and Post in Niagara-On-The-Lake and it was absolutely perfect. I tried bone marrow for the first time (I see the appeal) and it was a perfect little getaway. (Also, a gorgeous lavender field is only minutes away.)

Lavender field, Niagara-On-The-Lake

  • I was craving green curry (but not wanting to pay $30 for it from a restaurant) so I made one at home with onions, peas, chicken and store-bought green curry sauce and it was insanely satisfying. Also, lasted me a full week. I have to remember to do this again.

  • The house-made garlic and chive cream cheese from The Cheese Boutique is heavenly.

  • I’ve been living in this Aritzia burgundy sweatshirt.

  • Beyond excited for this project.

  • Nathan and I went to Montreal (best thing about a road trip? McDonald’s $1 any-sized iced coffee + the free DoubleTree warm cookie) and had such a great time. First time trying their bagels and good god - eons better than New York ones. No one told me. Only regret of the trip? Not ordering this onion block from The Cage.

$1 iced coffees for life

Montreal bagel

  • And this should be obvious, but Quebec cheese curds are otherworldly. There is no substitution.

Montreal, July 2025

  • Officially in love with the Montreal brand Mimi and August (thank you, Marla!).

  • I will always stop at The Big Apple when we pass it on the highway. Right now they have incredible nectarines and apple cheddar bread. (We also stopped at Primitive Designs because why not?)

Apple cheddar bread from The Big Apple in Ontario

Primitive Designs in Ontario

  • Yearning to eat this beef stroganoff with caramelized mushrooms and crispy onions.

  • Had my bridal shower and it was overwhelmingly nice. I made my favourite lemon sorbet with mascarpone for dessert (I will use any excuse to make these, they’re so good). And these honey jars are such a perfect party favour (note: you do have to fill them yourself, like some sort of sap).

Lemon sorbet with mascarpone and mint

Mini honey jars

  • This is really a reminder to myself to never use booking.com again. I’m 40, I should know better. Stop using third party websites for booking anything. They’re all terrible when it comes to changing plans.

  • These are officially the hottest, most comfortable heels I now own so I should probably buy two more pairs.

  • I ate the greatest samosas of all time from the Lakeview Farmers Market at Zesty Fusions. Also had an incredible gluten free breakfast sandwich from Gud Daae and a great iced flat white from Delicious All Day Coffee.

  • Current snack on repeat: Nutella on Dad’s Cookies. I can’t stop.

  • Some things I watched:

    • Fatal Attraction: wow, I rewatch this movie a lot. Might need to look into that.

    • A rerun of the Lady Gaga SNL: fantastic. Love her.

    • Single White Female: great! Can’t believe I hadn’t seen it before.

    • The Bear: I can’t stand how much Eyo says “like.” Other than that, the season was fine? Not enough scenes with Will Poulter.

    • And Just Like That: live long enough and you’ll grow to hate Aiden. It’s a blessing that this show is coming to an end. Also, Miranda’s character progression has never made any sense to me.

    • I Know What You Did Last Summer: I actually liked it! I won’t ruin the ending, but I truly hated that part of it.

Some things I’m looking forward to this month: OH I WONDER.

You can read last month’s roundup over here.

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