I know I was supposed to post the food items that we purchased at One Of A Kind but there were just too many of them, and we ate them before I could take photos:) Next year. So, I will show you what we made for dinner instead!
This is only my second time of making prime rib but it turned out pretty good. My fav part of the dinner was the veggies that cook in the juice of the meat. Too die for.
We finished it off with some berries.
The ice cream and chocolate sauce didn't make the photos:)
I whipped up these blueberry muffins for my study date yesterday.
If you have to be working on your weekend, you might as well have some comfort food to make you feel better.
We tried a new mom and pop type pizza place in Port Credit. It was amazing! Probably one of the best pizza's I have ever had. There is only about 6 table in the entire restaurant which meant we had to wait about 45 minutes for a table. Not a problem when there are so many great little pubs around to stop and drink a beer while you wait.
All in all, a great night!
We celebrated this year with our friends and their kids at our house. It was a duel celebration as it was Rick's birthday as well. We surprised him with a:
It was awesome to get everyone gathered around when it looked like this:
That is Rick above reenacting the art of blowing out a multitude of candles. I didn't have my camera ready, and didn't have my auto focus lense on hence the blur:)
I really wish I had continued to take photos while they cut into the cake because the kids reactions were priceless. Lots of oohs and ahh, and "no way!!"
The night ended with sparkles and glow sticks. Stoph had to get in on that action.
It was a great way to celebrate Canada, Rick, the kick off to a long weekend, and spending time with friends we definitely don't see enough!
Lots of great feedback on the cake pops, so I decided to make a few more.
I didn't go hog wild this time with 7 different colours. Just white. And I had all of these coloured sprinkles so I didn't break the bank at the bulk barn either:)
It feels good to be home just hanging out on our stay-cation. My work conference was amazing (work shouldn't be that fun!!). But it is awesome to come home, get some much needed rest, and hang with Stoph.
We hit up the appliance store, chapters, starbucks (multiple times), the bar to watch game 7, a movie, got a massage, paradiso for dinner, brunch, and the gelato place twice already. So far so good if you ask me:)
Have you seen Sweet Paul magazine before?
It is chalk full of great ideas, recipes, and styling. The summer salad spread by Paul Lowe and Hector Sanchez was my fav.
Stunning! Check out the entire mag here.
Let me just preface this by saying this was not my idea. I rarely have an original thought, and the credit for this gem goes to Lindsay from www.aubreyandlindsay.blogspot.com. She had the brilliant idea to use timbits to make cake pops instead of going through the entire process of baking the cake, crumbling the cake, adding the icing, rolling the cake balls, chilling the cake balls, etc. You get the idea.
Brilliant!
How hard could this be?? After reading her post I headed right out to the bulk barn to pick up the coloured chocolate coating. As I mentioned before, any sane person would try a colour or two, I bought seven. And because I had no idea how much to buy of each colour, I have a tonne of left over.
Timbits were next on the list (10 old fashion, and 30 chocolate glazed), and I was off to the races.
I watched a few how to videos for quick tips on making cake pops and they all said to pre dip the lollipop sticks in a bit of chocolate to secure the stick before dipping. Done. Chill for 15 mins. Done.
Next up was melting the chocolate.
Getting the right temp from my 15 year old microwave was tricky but once I was on my 5th colour I got the hang of it.
I lost a few while dipping, I'm not going to lie. But all in all, the day was a success.
I ended up with approximately 36 very cute colourful cake pops for my co-workers to enjoy.
Just a few tips before you try this at home:
1. Only use 1 or 2 colours of chocolate coating, not 7
2. Do 20 pops, not 40 your first go
3. Don't use a 15 year old microwave to melt the chocolate
4. Hire kitchen help to clean up after you:) It gets messy!
5. Get ready to be complimented over and over, these babies are a hit!
Enjoy.
This is how I spent my Sunday afternoon. I merely wanted to give making cake pops a go. Well did I ever. Any normal person would try something out before diving into the deep end. Not this gal.
I hit up bulk barn and bought $60.00 worth of chocolate coating. Yes, I said $60.00. Did I mention that I was merely trying this out and wasn't even making them for a special occasion:)
Well, four hours later, this is what I ended up with.
All in all, worth the effort, but definitely not something you just whip together.
I do have a secret that makes this process way easier. Stay tuned.
Isn't half bad when you put some effort into it. For example, a strawberry banana smoothie made with greek yogurt, splash of apple juice, strawberries and half of a banana. Pop that into your magic bullet and voila!
Hosted at casa S&M with the fam.
I stopped at Whole Foods yesterday to pick up a variety of dinner cheeses for our appetizer. Frank our dog loved them. He was able to nab 2 of the 6 bricks of cheese of the wood cutting board while I wasn't looking. Bad mom!
Unfortunately, in the hustle of plating the food I didn't actually get photo of the main course: spiral ham, Chris' famous mashed potatoes, and green beans. I think timing all of the courses is my least favourite part of cooking so I am always way to occupied to take photos.
We had a double course of desert: fruit with dip, and mini cupcakes. All in all, a great meal. We had 11 in total and we just fit around Stoph's new bowling alley table that he made us. (I will post more photos of the table later).
The night ended with a competitive game of Allies with too much red wine and coronas. Girls against boys. I won't mention who won:)
