I meant what I said in the comments of Jen's latest post today. There are SO many reasons I love food. Let me share some of them with you here: VarietyOkay, it's true. The Isagenix shakes taste good. Both the chocolate and the vanilla. But twice a day, every day? With only one "real" meal … [Read more...]
Brownies Make It All Better
We are - as I've written about in boring, endless detail on my other blog - recovering slowly from some grim illnesses, including one that led to me experiencing the delights of nasal swabbing. (if you've never had one, let me warn you - it's less fun then you might think.) Being mildly sick in bed … [Read more...]
The Day Before Christmas
The Baby calmly accompanied her older brother and sister on their Christmas shopping trips this weekend - The Girl went with me and The Boy with his dad and The Baby caboosed along behind cheerfully enough. We (and this was, in retrospect, very stupid) did not even think that she'd be interested yet … [Read more...]
*sweet*
Quickie post...gotta run & pick up my oldest and 4 of her friends in a few for an after-school Christmas party, but I just had to share. I just had THE MOST fun with my 4.5 year-old, making an angel food cake and whipped shortbread cookies. She brought down her mini-ghetto blaster from her room … [Read more...]
Snowed in! (and Part 2 of Lovin’ the Season)
Sunday morning, we woke up to a whirling blizzard of snow and ice. After a momentary panic session triggered by all the things I wasn't going to get done that day, I mellowed out and accepted our day at home. In fact, it was incredibly liberating to realise that we couldn't do anything … [Read more...]
Alternative Shopping
Before I get to all the shopping stuff, I have to get a confession out of the way. I jsut finished lying in bed for 2 hours doing nothing watching "An Affair to Remember". The big kids are at their mom's this weekend and I let the Gaffer watch 2 hours of animated Christmas specials. Now, … [Read more...]
I Had the Weirdest Dream…
...you know you're weird when you start dreaming about baking! Either that or you're on a crazy restrictive fad diet... Call it the latter for me last week. Anyway, other than a good jolt in the weight loss department, the baking dream inspired a really good dessert! Okay. Here's how it went. I'm in … [Read more...]
Food Gone Bad
There's not enough written, I think, about bad food - failed meals, awful things other people have served us, horrid things we like to eat in private - unless it's in one of those embarrassment columns, the adult equivalent of that Young Miss column where girls write in with "hilarious" … [Read more...]
Weekend…What Weekend?
Friday night - Mr. Husband's firm's 35th anniversary celebration at the Palais Royale....I was seriously underdressed and rather self-conscious all night but champagne flowed at the entrance and the band was fantastic - Prairie Oyster Band! Saturday 6 am - rise and shine in order to line up for the … [Read more...]
A busy weekend
I did a lot of baking this weekend - I made cinnamon-carrot quinoa flake bars for The Baby (and they were quite good and covered in a thick caramel icing. But I just invented them and I didn't write down the recipe, sadly.), I made a baked tangerine pudding cake (again, my own recipe! and I even … [Read more...]