Things I learned over the weekend:
Metal shoehorns will leave bruises with hardly any effort at all
People get kind of excited when you serve Cornish hens and leave them whole. Like “We get a WHOLE bird? Each?”
Kolach, while the most beautiful of breads, is less like bread and more like a giant pretzel
Even candles that are [...]
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I think I may have mentioned last year, here in the Gibson house, we celebrate Christmas twice.
First on December 25th, like most everyone else, and then again today, which is Ukrainian Christmas.
When Jack and I got married, there was some sorting out as to how holidays should be observed. We combined our separate traditions into our own [...]
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Aiden drove me to the airport on Wednesday night so that I could catch my flight out to Vancouver. I had booked the trip in August, as I didn’t have a chance to see my siblings over the summer holidays, and I’ve missed them a great deal. It was also a great opportunity to hang [...]
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Just as I was dozing off to sleep last night, I had a good idea for a post, and thought to myself “Ok, I’m totally going to remember to write about __________” in the morning. Naturally by this AM I have forgotten, so I’m going do two things:
A) Start keeping a pen and paper beside [...]
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Some months back I was on the hunt for an egg poacher, after we melted the plastic cup parts of our last one. Wanting to find something a lot more durable, I went to my favorite kitchen supply store to poke around. One of the clerks pointed me to these awesome little silicone poach pods, [...]
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We are already two months into 2009, and I’ve managed to cross half a dozen items off of my mini list thus far :) To summarize quickly, before launching into photos and details for most of them, here they are:
296. Watch all of the Harry Potter movies in a row
301. Take my kids to a Rainforest Cafe
317. Make [...]
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Do you know what is awesome about raw foods? Totally guilt-free indulgence. And by that I mean ALL THE DESSERT YOU WANT!
That’s right. When you are eating raw, you can have cheesecake for breakfast and still have room to spare in your skinny jeans. In fact, I would say that most days, at least one [...]
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*Courtesy of RAWvolution by Matt Amsden
Crust:
2 cups raw almonds (we used a combination of raw cashews and Brazil nuts) – finely ground in a food processor
1/3 cup raw agave nectar
Filling:
3/4 cup Thai coconut water
1/4 cup raw cashews
1/4 cup coconut butter (sometimes called coconut oil)
1/3 cup agave nectar
2 tablespoons spirulina
1 tablespoon carob powder
To make the crust:
In [...]
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Eating raw has become much easier since my last post.
V and I have discovered a number of tasty recipes, and we’ve begun getting accustomed to the methods and ingredients involved in raw foods preparation. Here are a few of the tasty things we’ve been eating recently:
Veggie Sandwiches On Raw Onion Bread
Raw Gardenburger
Raw Spirulina Pie
It’s becoming [...]
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On Saturday, around noon, Jack and I departed for our anniversary over-night in Niagara On The Lake. We weren’t in any rush, since our dinner reservations were for 6:30pm and we wanted a very laid back weekend. Jackson-Triggs was our first stop of the afternoon, where we enjoyed a pairing of cheese and a flight of [...]
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After a somewhat disappointing weigh-in on Tuesday, we’ve thrown ourselves into eating better and working out with renewed fervour. I did lose some over the 6 weeks since our initial weigh-in, but the holiday season took it’s toll, and the numbers were not what I hoped. I skipped the gym for two weeks in a [...]
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Now that I have your attention, Happy New Year! We wish everyone the very best in 2009!
Here at our house, the New Year was rung in over fondue, champagne, and pyramid. V, Jack, and myself got dressed up nice, and had a hot oil fondue after the kids went to bed. Then we had drinks [...]
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We made it through the holidays with only minimal strain, and all of that was self-induced. Leaving shopping until the last minute, indecision over what to buy for family and friends, that sort of thing. Still, we pulled it together, had a wonderful Christmas, and I feel pretty good about how everything went.
Jack spoiled me, [...]
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Montreal is just such a grand old city. We didn’t get to see as much of it as I would have liked, but the parts we did see, I fell in love with. I’d consider moving there, even though I can’t read or speak a word of French.
Have you ever stood outdoors, in the frigid cold, [...]
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Montreal was a series of fantastic restaurants, pubs, bars, fetish stores, and strong drinks.
In short, it was everything I hoped it would be and then some!
We left semi-early on Friday morning and arrived in Montreal sometime around supper. We checked into the hotel and got our bearings before I called Esined and made plans for [...]
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The week snuck past far too quickly.
I didn’t accomplish any of the writing I’d planned to do.
I *did* hit the gym three times, bought new winter boots, two hoodies, and some things from Lush.
I also spent some quality time with my mum and grandmum.
Tomorrow morning we are leaving for Montreal to spend a weekend seeing [...]
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We’ve had some interesting WTF? moments here at Chez Gibson. Fortunately we’ve managed to capture a couple of them on camera, for your viewing pleasure.
This first photo may not seem unusual, except that we could find NO possible explanation for how that little ice stalagmite. It was in the top tray of cubes, and there [...]
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We had a fairly quiet weekend here at Chez Gibson. On Saturday morning V was so kind as to watch the children so that Jack and I could go out for brunch. We decided to drive to Mississuga to have dim sum at one of our favorite places. The food was great, we both had [...]
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I know, I know, I am woefully behind on the blogging front.
I’ve been devoting a great deal of my time to other projects, none of them related to sex or this blog. Speaking of sex, that’s also taken up a fair bit of my recent attentions I’ve missed writing here, and I am [...]
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I haven’t allowed myself time to blog as of late due to wanting to make the most of the final week of summer, not to mention my birthday weekend, which was all kinds of fabulous really.
Tickets to Bedouin Soundclash and Blue Man Group for September comprised part of my birthday gift from Jack. He also [...]
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