food, photography and my creative life
March in Vancouver has been suffering from an identity crisis. It doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do. One minute, gorgeous blue skies, crocuses, warm breezes, the next snow, then hurricane force winds, then rain, them some blues skies… often all in the same day! Do you take the umbrella? Do you wear boots? The coat with the hood? Why is there a
I don’t think it comes as any surprise to anyone who follows along here that I have a sweet tooth, especially for chocolate. Who doesn’t like chocolate?? Crazy people, that’s who. I was lamenting missing London and English treats and lo and behold, Sean from Sean’s Adventures in Flavortown came to my rescue by suggesting I check out The Candy Aisle on Robson Street the
Sometimes, you have days where regular chocolate chip cookies are just not going to do the trick. Instead, you need double chocolate chip cookies. When things get tough, you need to bring in the heavy artillery Last week was pretty much a write off for me. My computer woes did not end with my last post. Two brand new hard drives later and several trips
I have been up to my eyeballs in blueberries this week! Sam and I took a drive to Surrey Farms at 152nd and Colebrook Road on Wednesday and bought three massive flats straight from the fields! That, my friends, is a lot of blueberries. According to the Blueberry Council of BC, my little corner of the world is the biggest producer of high bush blueberries
It’s no secret that I like love chocolate. There are some I love more than others but really, left to my own devices, I rarely never meet a chocolate I won’t eat. I like to think of it in a George Orwell kind of way: I love all chocolates. I just love some more than others. Every year, when I work on the event that
I love Two Peas and Their Pod. Maria makes the best cookies. Her recipes have never failed this cookie monster. She has over 100 of them and this is the third I’ve tried. I think it might just be my favourite. It has only good, yummy things in it. And by good, I don’t mean healthy. I mean tasty. Don’t confuse the two. You start
There are three things in this world that I love: Chocolate, Caramel and Salt. Well, ok, there’s more than three things. But for the purpose of this post let’s pretend that there are only three things. And how awesome is it when you get to combine all three things you love into one thing? And how even awesom-er is it when that thing is a
Today’s post is sort of a “part one of two” gig. Part one, today, is all about the chocolate. Part two, which will be on Monday, will be all about the photography. If you are struggling at home with your blog photography, I’m (hopefully) going to make you feel better about it with a few insights into post processing! But on to the chocolate. These
Today. Arggh. Mmm hmmm. Today was “Malfunction Monday”. Nothing went right. I wasted an entire morning sitting in traffic in completely miserable weather and never made my destination, none of the things I was waiting on arrived, my laptop is on the fritz, I am trying very hard to do all the things my dentist told me to do so I don’t have to fork
Ok, here’s one more in my long list of confessions: Choxie Chocolate Bars. I heart them. My friend Michelle, who I think is secretly trying make me gain about 100lbs, is always buying me boxes or bars of specialty chocolates for birthdays or Christmas. Choxie first appeared on the scene a few years and I fell in love before I even tasted them. The packaging
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