Since it's gotten increasingly hot in the apartment, we've tried to stay away from cooking as much as possible. Even with the fan blowing out the kitchen window, standing in front of the stove when the oven or an element is on is unbearable. And then when you're done it's too hot to eat ( Read more... )

The saddest part about the summer solstice is that because it's the longest day, for the rest of the season the days will be getting shorter. I really love that it's bright at 5.30am and still sunny at 9pm. I want it to be like this all year ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago.. no, actually it began even further back. It must've been after we got back from Seattle, way back in April. The bread I'd been baking regularly since December had started to fail. I wasn't sure what it was. The dough wasn't coming together into that smooth, silky feel on the first knead, and it wasn't really rising, either. ( Read more... )

1. Chapter 4 done. That's my 3 massive chapters drafted and out of the way. Now to finish off the remaining flank chapters (beginning with 2, then on to 1, then 3, then 7 ( Read more... )

On Thursday the weather finally warmed and dried up a little. It was nice enough that we went out for a run in the evening, and then decided to head over to the supermarket to get something to throw on the bbq for dinner. It was really nice to be able to be outside in shorts and a t-shirt ( Read more... )

What really got me on this AAG trip was that I'd caught a cold from J on the way to Seattle. It made me unreasonably grumpy since I couldn't breathe properly, woke up a lot in the night to cough (this one especially annoying because it's generally hard to get sufficient amounts of sleep during the AAG week), and, most importantly, sounded like a ( Read more... )

Picking up where we left off - Friday evening, we had dinner with Sam, Linh, and Dash at Sichuanese Restaurant (yeah, what can I say about that name?). It was good, but incredibly crowded. That's what you get for being on Yelp, I suppose - and on Friday night. We had a table right by the door, and spent the meal being stared at hungrily by people ( Read more... )

We walked out to Kensington Market yesterday. It was a long walk made slightly unpleasant by the wind gusts. It wasn't cold - the temperature probably hovered between 8°c and 10°c, but the wind was unbearable and made me quite miserable.

We also went to The Raveonettes concert last night. It was fun (although my ankle started hurting again from ( Read more... )

I wish I had photos for this post, but alas, it really doesn't look that good, and this winter/spring light doesn't make anything look good. I do have a picture, but I'm not putting it up. If you want, you may imagine very wet and green scrambled eggs slathered atop home-made bread.

For the most part, my first foray into making kaya was an ( Read more... )

Well, last night after I posted, I went and jiggled the mason jars. It had been almost seven hours, and I'd read that the longer the yogurt incubates, the tangier it tends to be. The yogurt had pretty much solidified - it stayed in place when I tilted the jars, so I moved them into the back of the fridge right away ( Read more... )