Tea & Art If you look at these pictures every week and think, “Geez I wish I could see this one (or that one) in full”. Well now you can, right here. This week I attended a mixed media workshop that got me excited about making art and a tea workshop that was overwhelmingly informative. We […]
Honest Food Tales – Chow and Chatter
Temecula Just 1 1/2 hours from the metropolis of LA there’s a wonderful up and coming town full of food and wine delights called Temecula. The name Temecula comes from the Luiseno Indian word of “temet” meaning sun and “ngna” meaning place of. It has a Mediterranean climate, warm summer days and mild winters and […]
365 Project 2014 – week 2
So many recipes This week was spent cooking, fermenting and preserving. We braised a chicken (recipe and video will be posted on Facebook next Saturday), made cochinita pibil tacos, preserved Meyer lemons and made more yogourt. I also made the best soft pretzels outside of Bavaria, no joke, they were delicious. The weather went from […]
Beautiful Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island If you like the outdoors and Vancouver Island isn’t on your list of places to visit you should change that right now. It is as slow paced as you would expect an island to be. It’s the perfect place to go bird watching, practice a sport or recharge. Stroll along the miles of […]
365 Project 2014 – week 1
Here we go again I decided to do a black and white theme this week and I may pick a theme a week, I’m not sure yet but I’ll play around with it. I may even stop the 365 project all together at some point so consider yourself warned. This week had us listening to […]
Jellyfish and Penguins
Idyllic weather It was idyllic weather the whole 14 days we were on the West Coast recently except for one day when the rain was so heavy our feet were drenched within a block of leaving the hotel. There was only one sensible thing to do and that was to head to our favourite indoor […]
365 Project – week 52
The final post This week was spent going to family get togethers, eating some post Christmas Chinese food and enjoying a bit of unseasonably warm weather followed by a cruel cold snap. Well this is it for the 365 Project 2013. I have to admit that I didn’t think I would last the whole year […]
365 Project – week 51
The mad dash The Christmas rush, those days when the streets are empty but the stores are crowded. When it seems like everyone is out and feeling “the spirit” of consumerism. We’d much rather hang out at home with a cocktail, watching Christmas movies and staring at the sparkly lights. This week it snowed so […]