Whether you’re hosting Christmas dinner or attending a festive potluck dinner party, it’s hard to walk the line between tradition and innovation. Some people are happy with the same turkey, mashed potatoes and jell-o your family has been making all your life, which is to say, as long as time itself. However, some people like to branch out and try cooking and consuming new and exciting things. Although I look forward to eating my Granny’s pies and making jokes about jell-o all year long, I also like exploring new foods. Here is my list of dishes to try this Christmas that are exotic enough to be exciting, but inconspicuous enough to entice even the most stringent of tradition upholders. Continue reading
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Dinner Party Dessert
My husband and I bought a new couch from IKEA today. Since our Volkswagen lifestyle does not support these kinds of large purchases, we needed to enlist the help of a friend with a larger vehicle. This friend would need to do the 45 minute drive with us – both ways – as well as assist my husband with the heavy, awkward lifting of getting the new couch in and the old couch out of the apartment.
We felt that a simple “thanks, here’s some gas money,” wouldn’t cut it, so we decided to host a small dinner party to thank our helpful friend and show the new couch to the others. For dessert I made one of my specialties, Mystery Cake – the mystery ingredient is tomato soup, trust me, it’s delicious and guessing what the mystery ingredient could be is great fun for guests.
My first time doing proper printing on a cake – I was pleased with myself
Homemade Hot Chocolate
As the cold weather slowly encroaches upon us, we desire hot tasty beverages more and more. When November arrives in Canada, everyday without the first snowfall is a bonus that makes us feel like we are living on borrowed time before the cold winter weather arrives. It is at this time of year that we can really appreciate the romance of cuddling under a soft blanket with our husband or boyfriend while sipping some lovely hot chocolate together. Why go out in the cold to purchase that hot chocolate when you can make a more delicious hot chocolate at home? Continue reading
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We’ve all been there, its 5 in the morning on Monday night, or Tuesday morning, if your one of them, you’re riding your skateboard down the ramps of that six storey parking structure, 3 towns over, when you think “wow, I should probably be asleep right now”. Yes, this actually happened, and yes, I’d been drinking. Continue reading