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  • the sun shines in New Orleans

    the sun shines in New Orleans

    Now that I’m home from New Orleans and have some new photos to share, I’ll be back to posting more regularly. For the foreseeable future, it will likely be very heavy on New Orleans pics. We arrived on a Tuesday evening, after the sun had set, checked in to the apartment I found on Airbnb,…

  • My Regina

    I like online shopping, but I know it’s also important to support local businesses.  It was a very blah, grey, cold, dreary (did I mention blah?) Saturday in Regina, and instead of hunkering down on the couch in my comfy pants, it was a let’s shop local kind of day. First up…lunch. Flip Eatery &…

  • wine in the rain

    A little drizzle is no problem when this is the view while enjoying a glass of wine on vacation… The wine is a California Pinot Noir, Meiomi 2012, recommended by the bartender at the Castaway Cafe, the restaurant at Maui Kaanapali Villas. It’s not a fancy place, but the food is very good. Much better…

  • roasted vegetable salad

    When I first started my blog, I thought I would post a lot of food pictures because I love food and I also enjoy cooking and making up recipes as I go.  My thought was it would be fun to document some of my experiments that turn out well…and today is the first time in…

  • Bliss

    Mmmm…a perfect cappuccino…

  • chocolate peanut butter fudge

    My chocolate peanut butter fudge picture is not Martha Stewart worthy, but it tastes pretty good. I’m a Type 1 diabetic, and when I started looking for fudge recipes I was horrified by the amount of sugar that was in some of them.  I’ve made “diabetic” fudge in the past with Splenda, and it was…

  • The Tucci Cookbook

    I love reading cookbooks, even if I don’t make any recipes from them, I like looking at the pictures, reading the descriptions, and imagining the possibilities.  This is my latest favourite, even though I haven’t made anything from it yet.  It’s a gorgeous book, the recipes sound amazing (and don’t appear to be too difficult),…

  • Banff Springs

    I didn’t do too much planning for the trip to Banff so there were only  two things on my must do list – go to Lake Louise and actually go into the Banff Springs Hotel and wander around instead of just admiring it from the outside.  I did take some pictures inside, but I wasn’t…

  • Fall Sunset

    I spent a very frustrating day off setting up my new laptop. I had hoped to go out late this afternoon to try to take some fall scene pictures, but by then I was just frustrated, so that’s when I take to the kitchen!  I made meatloaf (which when you think about is a really…

  • Tomatoes!

    A friend who is an amazing gardener gave me these tomatoes. He and has wife have a massive garden on their balcony, plus two community garden plots. He told me the names of the tomatoes but I don’t remember… I just know they tasted amazing! I made a simple salad – sliced tomatoes, fresh basil,…

  • a beautiful summer weekend

    The weather was perfect this weekend.  It was cooler at the beginning of the week and I wore long pants to work and even uttered the word fall a few times, but thank goodness summer has returned.  These are a few pics from this weekend – a good portion of which was spent outside –…

  • love is…

    This has been my camping coffee mug for years. It’s one of my favourite camping rituals, along with nightly hot dog and marshmallow roasts around the fire before bedtime.