Lovin’ Vancouver! Our favorite places : the Secret Garden

It’s a restaurant, it’s a shop, it’s a destination, it’s an event – the Secret Garden! Every year for the past 5 or so years, I have taken the girls to the Secret Garden for “start of summer” lunch. Well, ok, I’ll admit we go a lot more often than that… But we love it! [...]

Food, Glorious FOOD!

Haven’t had TONS of time to cook this past year, but we still see to manage to eat well ! Grilled trout, with lemons + parsley Eldest daughter, B’s from-scratch Angel Food cake – YUM! MMMmmmm – crabbies and clammies, in hot garlicy butter, with caesar (of course!) and fresh-squeezed lemonade to boot! Even Boo [...]

Family Dinners

If you’ve read any of my site, you know by now I love food. Good food – not just any food, although I have been known to eat the odd Big Mac. One of the other things I love is my family, so it goes without question that eating food with my entire family is [...]

The Diet – Spreadsheet version

I’ve been doing ongoing “healthy eating” research to come up with a diet plan for myself, and my family. It’s all this “at home” time since I’ve stopped working as much – I can always find projects to be done. Anywho, I developed this spreadsheet based on a few popular eating diets. If you understand [...]

10 Things I LOVE : 09.03 Recipes!

I had a usual post of my 10 Favorite Things all set up, but I felt like posting my favorite recipes instead. I grew up hating cooking, not wanting to be chained to a stove cooking for some man while his feet were up and his newspaper out. God is laughing at me. Again. I [...]

The Wonderfully Versatile Baguette

I’m not a “breads” person, but I love a good baguette. Crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy in. Ahhhh. We stop every Thursday at our local Granville Island markets and pick one up. We eat. We feed birds. (Don’t they look skinny and starving?? ya, riiiight.) We have a few slices with our dinner. [...]