This is my first blog entry about my pregnancy. As I sit here typing this and eating chocolate covered almonds…my baby is kicking me and rolling around. I think that he knows that I am typing about him. Lol. It is amazing how things sometimes don’t work out the way that you plan. If you [...]
A lot has changed and a lot has stayed the same. I guess that is how the world always works. A Year in Review This year has been a very exciting year for me. Some of the highlights are: Thailand in March. Trip of a lifetime. Held a baby tiger, rode an elephant, ate curry [...]
Although I haven’t been blogging about my cooking. I have been cooking. Over the last two months I have made a ton of new recipes. Most turned out good, some were a little bit interesting. The Successes Lasagna with whole wheat noodles and 2% cheese. I didn’t even know that low fat cheese existed….let alone [...]
For those of you who know me…you know that I like to cook. I’ve always found this to be a concundrum for me because I love cooking/eating and yet I do not want to buy my clothes from the MEC tent aisle. Until now, I always thought that I would have to choose one or [...]
Well…its been an interesting week. This week was fairly slow at work so I was more ambitious in my home life. I learned some interesting lessons this week…. 1. Leftover Soup is sort of like leftover Turkey. It is not as good if all the ingredients are old and precooked. Soup from fresh ingredients is [...]
There are some moments in life that are simply precious. Yesterday was one of them for me. I spent the later part of the evening with my best friend Jodi baking Meat Buns (an old German recipe). You can tell that this is an ancient recipe (and therefore awesome!) because there is no quantities for [...]
So life moves on at a fast pace…things get busy and I ignore my blog. Easy to set up but hard to maintain Life is good and I’m a very lucky girl. Last weekend I went to Banff with my lady friends. We drove down on Friday night and stayed at Tanelle’s condo in Okotoks. [...]
So here in Canada it is thanksgiving weekend. I love long weekends…in fact….I love them so much that I work longer hours at work so that I can have a long weekend every other weekend. This weekend we went out to dinner with my good friends, Jodi and TJ, at Ruth’s Chris which is a [...]
So for my first cooking adventure..as a married woman…I decided to make lasagna. Lasagna is something that I have made many times before but it has always turned out weird. Either the noodles are crunchy or the sauce is to watery, or the layers of the lasagna are not connected enough to allow me to [...]
Hello Online World! This is my first post. I’m not really sure what to say….my cat trying to sit on the keyboard is not making this any easier! My life has changed a lot in the last two years but i like the direction that it is going. I hope that this blog will help [...]