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Guest post from South America: Maracuya Sour
This post comes from Ayngelina of Bacon is Magic, which is a blog we absolutely need right now. Look her up, and live vicariously through her as she has adventures in warmer climates while the rest of us toil up … Continue reading
Filed under Guest post, Recipe
Feuerzangenbowle!
A few weeks ago my mom and I went on our annual holiday outing to Christmas shop and eat and generally be merry, and we went to the Vancouver Winter Market beside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre downtown because the ad … Continue reading
Moon Chai.
Ugh December. I have a bijillion things to do and am way too easily distracted. On the one hand, my holiday shopping is just about done; on the other, my apartment looks like a crime scene. Last night I had … Continue reading
Stout hot chocolate.
We put up the tree a week or so ago, and the cat is just thrilled. It was cute at first, the way she’d clamber up the middle and make a nest of her own legs and tail in the … Continue reading
Coq au Riesling.
Sometimes I like to imagine that I am someone quite fabulous like Ina Garten or Nigella Lawson, and at the end of a grueling day of snacking and writing cookbooks and lunching with my fabulous friends in the garden and … Continue reading
Basil lemonade: Perfect for sunny patches, summer picnics, and chilled bottles of vodka.
It’s the weekend! Fantastic. And it’s sunny, which is making my headache and massive to-do list seem less like factors that could screw up my whole day … perhaps the sun will be to blame for a whole day of … Continue reading
Eggs Rabbit.
So, last week was unpleasant. I was a raging cyclone of stress and emotion and death threats, and Nick did his best but holy crap, and by Wednesday, I was on the verge of stabbing someone. That was the day … Continue reading
Bribe Santa and warm your little bones with Mexican hot chocolate.
There was fog this morning, and I almost thought it was snowing. It was dense in parts, but clear in others, and maybe it wasn’t fog as much as it was the fluff of a low-slung cloud, but for the … Continue reading
When it’s rainy and windy and there are boxes everywhere and if you live in Vancouver, go to The Three Lions Café.
It was Nick’s birthday, and we are in the throes of moving. I got him this. There are boxes everywhere, and I am not buying much in the way of groceries until we get to our new place. So for … Continue reading
Filed under restaurant
And now for something completely different. Also? Pork Wellington.
Okay. So. I had an idea today, and bear with me, because this is the first time I’ve ever done this and also I was drunk. Which sounds like an excuse for crime or being in porn. No one’s ever … Continue reading
