Spring Break 2008

Unfortunately, this trip was postponed until March 28…but we’re still really really really looking forward to it…we’ll have to have a few martini’s in anticipation!!!!
Countdown Clock.
Paul and T are coming to Toronto!!! We’ve had to scramble (well, not really scramble, but we were putting off buying the bed and mattress for a sale, and Ikea [...]

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February 23 Dinner

Flowers from Tina and Todd.
We had very good friends, the Evans’s and Todd and Tina (lead carpenter from reno) over for dinner this Saturday (Todd is working with Rob on HGTV).
Here is the menu:
Round 1: Champagne and Hors D’oeuvres (3 tiers hors d’oeuvres)

Smoked salmon, crème fraiche on chive biscuits with caper
Bacon wrapped dates
Vegetable platter [...]

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Not so bad for you nacho-style chips

I made a guacamole as a starter the other day but didn’t have chips or crackers around, so I used fajita shells (these were whole whole grain with flax seed, so extra good for you!). Cut them into smallish triangles and coat with either Pam or olive oil on both sides. Place on cookie sheet [...]

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Huff Estate Weekend!

We went down to Prince Edward County and stayed at Huff Estate for one night over the long weekend. The restaurant I had booked a month ago canceled our reservation 6 days ahead (Valentine’s weekend, no less), due to the snow (oh, poor babies, too much snow in Canada in the winter?????) Not much of [...]

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Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day!
JT and I don’t really like going out for dinner on this occassion, our experience has been poor service and expensive menus, so we splurge at home!
Last night we started with little Mini Chive biscuits (From Food Network.com Barefoot Contessa) with Crème Fraiche (I’ve been having a difficult time finding it in the [...]

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Brunch with Cousin Lucy and Gus and Wendy and kids

We had cousin Lucy, Larry their two kids, Ilona and Vaz, and Gus, Wendy, Jack and Annie for a lovely brunch on Sunday Feb 10.
The kids horsing around in the new basement:

We had a honey clove baked ham with potatoes gratin (scalloped potatoes with creme fraiche and gruyrere cheese – very very bad [...]

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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

We were out last night at 9:30pm shoveling…for the third time that day! As you can well imagine we are quite sick of it. Good thing we did a workout too, otherwise, I’d fear that we’d plummet into unfitedness (is that a word?)
Anyway, as troublesome the snow is, it is extremely beautiful. Here are a [...]

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