Weekend (Food) Warrior

I love weekends. It's amazing how much you can get done (read: eat) when you don't have to go to work!

Friday evening: First BBQ of the season.

Saturday: My first ever roast chicken. It was easy, especially with extra tips. I made stock with the bones, which gave my boyfriend a reason to stay up until 2:00 am playing online poker. Someone had to turn the stove off. Way to take one for the team, babe.

Sunday: Dinner party stand-bys, including Jamie Oliver's "Parmesan Chicken Breasts with Crispy Posh Ham" (prosciutto), roasted veggies, and apple crisp.

Shockingly, I was still too full to eat breakfast this morning.

Vegas, baby!

Vegas: where everything is fake, fabulous and fun. While my favourite pics seem to be from New York, New York, we stayed at the Wynn, which can be summed up in the phrase: "Twelve dollar pool-side Pina Coladas that are worth every penny."

Look at this sandwich! That's pastrami, corned beef, coldslaw and turkey. With a side of potato salad. And a pickle.

It's almost the weekend!

Thank goodness

More dining chez the curb

Last minute dinner before last puppy class.

Japadog

L.A. has Korean taco trucks, Vancouver has Japanese hotdogs.

Word is spreading, and rightly so. We had two of the "terimayo" before going to see Avatar: all-beef hotdog, teriyaki sauce, mayo and seaweed. (Mine is the one on the left; I couldn't even wait for the picture.)

Urban Family Easter

I rarely go home for Easter. This year, like most, I have a lot of work to do, I'm tired, holiday ferry traffic is awful, and I was home two weekends ago for my god-daughter's first birthday (adorable!).

My boyfriend took Mozart to his hometown this morning, and I am on my own. With the boys out of town, I am having some girly fun (in between conference books, marking and lesson planning. Sigh.)

Today, I went to a local historic farm house, London Farm, for tea with my sister and Julie, one of my friends from university.

(Yes, those are my sister's crutches. She broke her ankle running to a free Our Lady Peace concert during the Olympics. Free concerts: there's always a catch.)

Say what?

Mind-blowing facts are seeking me out.

1. Taking short showers to save water? Try one less mouthful. One pound of meat takes as much water as a year of showers. Vegetarian chili it is!
2. When my lovely friend Angie gets into her new Mazda 3, the speakers play the music on her iPhone, even from her purse in the backseat.
3. Apparently, I cannot combine my passion for collecting air miles and my passion for the Maple Pecan Danish. Tim Hortons does not take Visa.
4. The Vancouver housing market is the most expensive (considering prices and income) of 272 cities including London, New York, Sydney, and every other city in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and Ireland. Ouch.

Photo: flickr