This is definitely one of our family’s all-time favourite meals. It’s one of the few recipes in my regular rotation and is one of my go-to recipes when I want to help someone out with a meal for their freezer! The recipe doubles easily, and you can cook the taquitos from frozen in 15-20 minutes. […]
Archives for May 2011
Are you wearing pants? Don’t be so sure…
Many thanks to Chelsea, via Char, for bringing this hilariously helpful chart to my attention! This should clear up any questions you may have had :)
Good-bye Oprah…see you in the next election
Well, the end of the Oprah show is the end of an era of sorts. For me, Oprah was never really anything more than a channel to turn to while Ellen was in commercials. I couldn’t even commit to the whole finale show yesterday with the adorable and amazingly well-spoken Justin Bieber dominating the Ellen […]
Sometimes I love being a forgetful procrastinator
For the most part being forgetful is frustrating and potentially awkward. Some such times: -when writing an exam -when telling people your children’s names -when at the grocery store trying to remember ingredients necessary for dinner […]
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
My Elder Sister recommended this book to me ages ago, and I’ve had it out of the library before and had to return it before reading it, so this time when the due date (tomorrow) rolled around and I had yet to pick it up till yesterday, I was determined to get ‘er done. This […]
Saturday Sweets: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Even more cookies! When you make cookies every week or so, you can easily get stuck in a rut of making the same ones, so you need a LOT of great recipes to cycle through to keep everyone on their toes. I think plain ol’ chocolate chip cookies are probably my favourite food ever, and […]
I wish it was market day
Sunny spring mornings like this, when Carl doesn’t have to work till the afternoon and everyone is well-rested, make me miss Ottawa. A morning like this would almost certainly mean making the 10-minute jaunt to downtown to enjoy a beautiful 20 minute walk along the canal to Byward Market where we could enjoy the […]
My Stroke of Insight
I’ve been reading this book for Book Club (if you’re Katy or Deanna, stop reading now or read away and skip reading the book!) and I had high expectations, which can never be a good thing going into either a book or a movie. I’ve learned it’s much better to be pleasantly surprised by […]
Hide & Seek
Can you tell what’s what? Apparently my taste in home decor is not so different from my taste in clothing. Combined with my leather pants, I play a mean game of hide and seek – no one ever thinks to look on the couch.
Raspberry Chia Cheesecake
I am notorious for buying ingredients for recipes I intend to make and then forgetting what recipe I had in mind 3 seconds after I get my groceries home. This results in random ingredients that languish in my pantry and fridge until I notice that they are about to expire and have to put […]
Five years
After meeting in Grade 8 and having a slightly bumpy almost four years of dating over a 6 year span from Grade 11 onwards, my high school sweetheart finally popped the question in January 2006 and in May 2006 we tied the knot! Five years ago I barely whispered (thanks to a combination of stage fright […]
Happy Birthday Gemma!
Today was my sweet little girl’s 3rd birthday!! I can hardly believe it, especially since those terrible twos have yet to really hit. Looking back, God sure knew what he was doing when he gave me this little girl. A self-proclaimed non-fan of kids, Carl knew when he married me that kids weren’t too high […]