Thursday, November 5, 2009
One tactic I’ve often used for budgeting is meal planning. Usually I’d do it on at weekly basis, or sometimes I’d make meal plans as far as 2-3 weeks in advance. I’d sit down with my recipe box, pick out what to make, and formulate a list from that. Then I’d buy everything in one [...]
The thing that has been occupying my mind the most is housing. It’s really not the first priority (that would be getting visas) but I’ve started spending ridiculous amounts of time combing through housing ads. Here are some things British housing ads feature that Canadian ones generally do not:
rents are generally listed weekly; the monthly [...]
Well, it’s not that new; it’s been my favourite store since we moved into this house. Behold:
That’s Gourmet Warehouse, and it’s two blocks from my house. Dangerous, I know. They have all kinds of amazing stuff here… cookware, bakeware, glassware, knifeware and any other kind of -ware you can imagine plus some pretty cool gourmet [...]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
A while ago I stumbled across this recipe, bookmarked it, and forgot about it. For quite a while. Not until last month when I was cleaning out my bookmark folder did I rediscover it, and resolved to make it myself.
See, my husband loves granola. I like it too, but I’m real picky about it. The [...]
Friday, February 27, 2009
I’m a big fan of Lolo - who isn’t? A significant percentage of recipes from this site make it into regular rotation at my house. To date the most used has been the Sweet Chili Lime Tofu, but it seems that the Pine Nut Rolled Lasagna is going to take a run at the title. [...]
Saturday, January 10, 2009
One of my go-to recipes (if you can call it that) when I don’t want to do a lot of cooking and don’t want a lot of ingredients is fajitas. They’re super easy - get some fake chicken (I’m using It’s All Good brand here), slice some onions and peppers into rings (my mandoline comes [...]
I spent all evening cooking. For dinner tonight I made:
- BBQ seitan
- baked potatoes
- steamed broccoli
- St. Paddy’s Day biscuits (blend some spinach up with the liquid)
So that gave me dinner, plus two lunch-sized containers. I made a big pot of cajun black-eyed peas, that’s chilling in two quart jars right now. [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
James got a gift certificate for dinner for two at West. It’s one of Vancouver’s more expensive restaurants. We got the tasting menus with wine pairings - seven courses for me and five for him, each with its own glass of wine (well, champagne with the first, port with the last, wine with [...]
Friday, November 30, 2007
I don’t know why I always decide to quit putting off baking bread at about 8 pm. It’s now almost midnight and I have just finished with it. It’s totally worth it though. I’m eating some, still warm, with homemade peach jam. This is the first time in a for quite [...]
Thursday, November 8, 2007
James gave me his office jack-o-lantern (it hadn’t been lit!) and I cut it all up tonight. I forgot how big pumpkins are. This was a big one. I canned six pints (that was all the jars I had), steamed a big pot full that’s going to get mashed and made into [...]