THE BETTERDAY WEEKLY
What Alberta is eating this week.
By the time Wednesday rolls around, most of us are craving something with a little more personality than a desk sandwich. This week's menu had plenty, from the Thai Chicken Mango Crunch Power Bowl with its red curry peanut sauce to the sticky, sweet and spicy Gobi Glaze Mongolian Beef. Here is how the week's meals shaped up.
This week’s most popular dishes.
The whole week on a plate.
9 of this week’s 22 entrées have 35 g of protein or more, and Thai Chicken Mango Crunch Power Bowl has the most at 52 g!
See every high protein dish
Lemongrass.
The grass that smells like it raided the citrus aisle.
Lemongrass is a tall, clumping tropical grass, a cousin of the grasses in a meadow. It grows in thick tufts with long, sharp-edged blades that can reach well over a metre high. It just happens to smell wonderfully of lemon.
The part of lemongrass we cook with is the pale, firm base of the stalk, where the leaves wrap tightly around each other. The outer layers are tough and woody, so cooks peel them away to reach the tender core. Bruising or slicing that core releases its lemony scent, which comes largely from a compound called citral.
This week’s busiest neighbourhoods.
The Calgary neighbourhoods that ordered the most BetterDay this week. Beltline takes the top spot.
1Beltline
2Altadore
3Hillhurst
4Bridgeland/Riverside
5Silver Springs
