and you're hungry and missing my cooking and getting hungrier while you stare at the refridgerator and then stare at the stove and then back at the refridgerator and then at Mila while she meows at you...
You can skip all that and look here http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
I heart this
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix? Do you know this guy? André Michelle. If you do, can you thank him?
I can't stop! I've created my own personal musical masterpiece between these three
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/superellipse
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
and
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/pulsate
Friday, June 18, 2010
Boys and kale Boys, Kale & Unicorns
An email to me from AF
My "found-internet-art" addition to this email... FIERCE!
Peter brought in baked kale for everyone today. It’s so crispy and salty.
And the aftertaste! It makes my coffee breath seem like fresh dew mixed with fabreeze and unicorn breath (which I’m told smells amazing)
AF
My "found-internet-art" addition to this email... FIERCE!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Sunday Brunch: Pasta Frittata!
This is what I made for Sunday brunch after my hill running on the Sunshine Coast. This brunch was AF's idea. He requested an omelette made with leftover ravioli. We wanted to carry as little leftover food as possible back to Vancouver in our car. Especially if the lineup for the ferry ended up a two sailing wait in the hot sun.
6 eggs
leftover items from previous night's dinner
First, run hills for about 2 hours. Jump into icy lake. Stand in lake for about 15-20 minutes. Admire nature. Get inside, dry off.
Then heat a 9" cast iron fry sautee pan at medium. Layer the mushrooms, zucchini and then pasta in pan. Beat eggs and leftover sauce together. Poor egg mixture over pasta and veggies. I let it sit there about 10 minutes before remembering that I was supposed to put it in the oven.
Place in 350 degree oven about 15minutes. Let sit for a bit before serving. Serves 4-6.
Tada!!! Pasta Fritatta! I served the frittata with half a "Everything" bagel and mimosas, YUM!!!
Sorry, I don't measure when I cook. But now that I'm writing down the recipes, I think I will start measuring so that it's easier for you to try out and improve.
6 eggs
leftover items from previous night's dinner
- leftover pasta - in my case this was leftover ravioli in mushroom & garlic alfredo sauce
- a dallop of leftover sauce
- sauteed mushrooms
- sauteed zucchinni
- you can add some grated cheese - but I wanted to keep this light and omitted the cheese
First, run hills for about 2 hours. Jump into icy lake. Stand in lake for about 15-20 minutes. Admire nature. Get inside, dry off.
Then heat a 9" cast iron fry sautee pan at medium. Layer the mushrooms, zucchini and then pasta in pan. Beat eggs and leftover sauce together. Poor egg mixture over pasta and veggies. I let it sit there about 10 minutes before remembering that I was supposed to put it in the oven.
Place in 350 degree oven about 15minutes. Let sit for a bit before serving. Serves 4-6.
Tada!!! Pasta Fritatta! I served the frittata with half a "Everything" bagel and mimosas, YUM!!!
Sorry, I don't measure when I cook. But now that I'm writing down the recipes, I think I will start measuring so that it's easier for you to try out and improve.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Would you like to join me for some fine champagne?
So Saturday, we spent the morning putting our bikes together and fiddling around with them. I think we were both nervously stalling. You know, like this...
ME: Are you ready?
AF: Yah sure I'm ready if you're ready.
ME: You go first.
AF: No, you go first.
ME: No, you!
AF: Are you ready?
ME: Yah, I'm ready.
AF: Let's go already!!!
ME: OK, um sure.
AF: Oh wait, I think I need to adjust my seat.
ME: Oh ok. I'm going to change my shoes...
We pushed our bikes up the super steep driveway and realize that the smooth, beautiful road is REALLY STEEP!
Running the hills is much easier than pedaling up these hills! HOLY SHIT! We rode around till it wasn't fun anymore. We swore more than ride. Really it's just oh, the first 10 hills you have to get over then it's smooth sailing and then there's more hills. They aren't small hills either. They are BIG! Such noobs! What babies! Everything is HUGE when you're new on a bike. I generally have no fear. I just don't think that way. But two stupid meetings over 10 years ago between my bike and two different cars in one week has got it stuck in me that bikes are a bit scary. I know I'll get over it, it will just take a little bit of time. NO FEAR!
We abandon the idea of riding out to Garden Bay to get a few things for breakfast from the general store. Instead we run to the comfort of our motorized vehicle. Roll down the windows and let the wind blow in our hair... and (ahem) dry off our sweat. Of course we laugh at ourselves on our great adventure. We will have to try again next time. heheh
We finish breakfast, pack lunches and head out for our hike. My boyfriend had been super stoked for this hike all week. He talked about how his family often did this hike up Mount Daniel when they were kids. He was SUPER STOKED.
Let me tell you something about AF. We are COMPLETE opposites. I run run run a-run run run and he sits. I get up at 5 or 6 a.m. and he sleeps in till past 10 a.m. and if I don't bother him he will sleep till 1 p.m. In my world he's lazy, in his world I'm crazy. If there's a mountain, I say, "Let's go climb it!" He'll say, "Nah, let's go home and take a nap." It's perfect. If I'm doing a very long run, he'll wake up just in time to pick me up. Or if it's a shorter run. He'll be up just in time to go for coffee. So I was really happy about going on a hike! TOGETHER!! I thought that maybe he had come around to my side. He LIKES hiking!
Anyway... we make it up to the top of Mount Daniel! (about 45 minutes). Look at the view!
AF opens up the silver bell and says, "Winnie, will you marry me?" so then the light bulb finally turns on and I scream, "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!? OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!" He was down on one knee holding out a silver Birks Silver Bell Box not a bear bell!!! I didn't fall off Mount Daniel but I did start crying and laughing at the same time. I said, "Yes!" Of course, only because I was there on the edge of a dangerous cliff!
To top it all off, AF snuck up a bottle fine champagne to celebrate. AF is so wonderful. :-)
Friday, June 11, 2010
Happy Weekend!
We're going to ride our bikes, hike and maybe get a little bit of kayaking in if there's time. I'll run of course, it's taper time so it's just 18km this Sunday. Maybe I'll see bear cubs again. Oh, that reminds me I should pack my bear whistle. Aaaaand I might jump into the lake. BRRRRR! Maybe not.
If it rains, we'll chop some wood and put on a fire, relax and read.
My boyfriend and I were fighting today Unicorn and bear fight
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Before and after a run Part 2
I forgot to write about pre and post run food aside from the pasta. FOOD!!!! I love food!!!!
Morning of run:
After run:
Morning of run:
- A bowl of oatmeal, a dash of cinnamon and almond milk and sometimes I add dried cranberries and half a banana, or
- Toast (manna bread) with almond or peanut butter with homemade jam.
After run:
- Oranges
- Chocolate soymilk - my favourite is the So Good brand. I buy one every time on the ferry.
- If I'm starving, my boyfriend and I go to my favourite breakfast diner, Deacon's Corner! Biscuits and gravy, baby!!
- Pineapple -YUM!
- Grapefruit
- Young coconut juice
- The other half of the banana
Monday, June 7, 2010
Before and after a run
Before
I masta hava pasta! If I go out for dinner, I have to go to the Cactus Club and I must have the Rob Feenie signature Prawn & Scallop Spaghettini. Yah, I know! I'm too young to be stuck in my ways! Maybe, I'm just on the cusp of being old enough...
If I eat at home then I make brown rice pasta with truffle olive tapenade (Mmmm! Truffle!! Mmm! Olive tapenade, can you believe I used to make this by hand, with NO food processor?!? Crazy, I know!) or with a simple tomato sauce with whatever's in my fridge. That's all I do for a carbo-loading meal. I also like to have an early dinner, like at 3 or 4pm, I wake up extra early on race days or long run days.
I remember when I was a kid, my parents would feed my brothers and me lots of pasta or rice. They wanted to make sure my brothers ate well before their big hockey games. They also told us that we would grow taller if we ate all the rice in our bowls. Or they would tell us that our future boyfriends or girlfriends would look as pock-marked and ugly as our dirty dishes. Or the other story was that we were privilege we had rice to eat, because when my mom was a child all they had were sticks, stones and roots to boil. OOOOR when my dad was a kid, if he didn't sell shaved-ice treats from his bicycle before his ice block melted he wouldn't have money to help buy food for the family. Whatever story it was, we were good kids and cleaned our bowls! I'm not as tall as I'd like to be and my boyfriend isn't shiny like my cleaned bowl but he isn't covered in pock-marks or pimples either. But I've learned a bad habit, I clean my plate or bowl still and often do so way after being full up to my eyeballs. Still trying to unlearn this habit.
Next, water. I hydrate. I drink lots of water. I bet wait-staff are disappointed with my drink orders, "lots of water with lemon, please!" and a big smile.
I literally chug water, I really like just plain, filtered tap water. I know there are some people who don't like plain water, claiming that water doesn't have any flavour. Have they tasted water in other parts of the world? Vancouver water tastes awesome! It's sweet! It's not a candy, sugary sweet but it's a nice clean sweet. I'm not sure if anyone would understand. I'm not sure how else to describe it but I've tasted water in different parts of the world and I have to say, we Vancouverites have the BEST drinking water in the world.
Sleep. A good night's sleep. Most nights I don't sleep well. I have a great bed. I lie there, stretch, breath and hope to drift off to sleep.
After
I drink lots of water and I crave oranges and chips. OK, not just chips, I crave baked Cheetos! Yes, that's right. That gnarly, florescent orange crunchy stuff. I wonder if my gut turns orange...
I also crave Korean spicy hot instant ramen! Yes, Korean-make-me-sweat-and-sniffle-spicy-ramen! Mmmmm ramen. What I really crave is salt. So, I'm trying out nuun portable electolyte hydration (lemon-lime flavour) to avoid the extra calories. I like that it doesn't have any sugar and it's a little bit fizzy if you drink it right after it's done dissolving.
I also like to drink San Pellegrino and POM - a fizzy drink treat! Oh POM, just like your tagline, you are so wonderful. I'm so glad there is juice drink like you.
Roll, roll, roll my IT band with a foam roller. And look!! The foam roller comes in PINK!!! Mine's blue. :-/ Aaannyway, the colour doesn't really matter. I roll almost daily combining the foam roller and a wooden rolling pin. Yep, a wooden rolling pin. I sit on my yoga mat with my feet out in front of me and roll out my quads. Rolling hurts but it's a good kind of hurt. I sit there, "ooooh! grunt! grunt! ow ow ow!" and roll.
Yoga! Power yoga! I really think that power yoga has helped me become a stronger runner as well as stretches me out. Yah stretching! It's good. :-)
Most recently I've purchased the hot pink CEP compression socks I've been coveting. I know, what a weirdo! I should be coveting shoes and bags! Like those gals on SATC, right? Hey, I'm a running girl!
My boyfriend bought them for me on Saturday. Yah, he buys me compression socks like other guys would buy a girl flowers! LOL. I was so happy I kept them in my purse with me after we left the store. And I had them with me when we went out for dinner and then I tried them on in the car. Then I pranced around the house on Sunday after my long run. I guess they worked because I don't usually prance around the house after a long, long run. I'm such a dork.
I masta hava pasta! If I go out for dinner, I have to go to the Cactus Club and I must have the Rob Feenie signature Prawn & Scallop Spaghettini. Yah, I know! I'm too young to be stuck in my ways! Maybe, I'm just on the cusp of being old enough...
If I eat at home then I make brown rice pasta with truffle olive tapenade (Mmmm! Truffle!! Mmm! Olive tapenade, can you believe I used to make this by hand, with NO food processor?!? Crazy, I know!) or with a simple tomato sauce with whatever's in my fridge. That's all I do for a carbo-loading meal. I also like to have an early dinner, like at 3 or 4pm, I wake up extra early on race days or long run days.
I remember when I was a kid, my parents would feed my brothers and me lots of pasta or rice. They wanted to make sure my brothers ate well before their big hockey games. They also told us that we would grow taller if we ate all the rice in our bowls. Or they would tell us that our future boyfriends or girlfriends would look as pock-marked and ugly as our dirty dishes. Or the other story was that we were privilege we had rice to eat, because when my mom was a child all they had were sticks, stones and roots to boil. OOOOR when my dad was a kid, if he didn't sell shaved-ice treats from his bicycle before his ice block melted he wouldn't have money to help buy food for the family. Whatever story it was, we were good kids and cleaned our bowls! I'm not as tall as I'd like to be and my boyfriend isn't shiny like my cleaned bowl but he isn't covered in pock-marks or pimples either. But I've learned a bad habit, I clean my plate or bowl still and often do so way after being full up to my eyeballs. Still trying to unlearn this habit.
Next, water. I hydrate. I drink lots of water. I bet wait-staff are disappointed with my drink orders, "lots of water with lemon, please!" and a big smile.
I literally chug water, I really like just plain, filtered tap water. I know there are some people who don't like plain water, claiming that water doesn't have any flavour. Have they tasted water in other parts of the world? Vancouver water tastes awesome! It's sweet! It's not a candy, sugary sweet but it's a nice clean sweet. I'm not sure if anyone would understand. I'm not sure how else to describe it but I've tasted water in different parts of the world and I have to say, we Vancouverites have the BEST drinking water in the world.
Sleep. A good night's sleep. Most nights I don't sleep well. I have a great bed. I lie there, stretch, breath and hope to drift off to sleep.
After
I drink lots of water and I crave oranges and chips. OK, not just chips, I crave baked Cheetos! Yes, that's right. That gnarly, florescent orange crunchy stuff. I wonder if my gut turns orange...
I also crave Korean spicy hot instant ramen! Yes, Korean-make-me-sweat-and-sniffle-spicy-ramen! Mmmmm ramen. What I really crave is salt. So, I'm trying out nuun portable electolyte hydration (lemon-lime flavour) to avoid the extra calories. I like that it doesn't have any sugar and it's a little bit fizzy if you drink it right after it's done dissolving.
I also like to drink San Pellegrino and POM - a fizzy drink treat! Oh POM, just like your tagline, you are so wonderful. I'm so glad there is juice drink like you.
Roll, roll, roll my IT band with a foam roller. And look!! The foam roller comes in PINK!!! Mine's blue. :-/ Aaannyway, the colour doesn't really matter. I roll almost daily combining the foam roller and a wooden rolling pin. Yep, a wooden rolling pin. I sit on my yoga mat with my feet out in front of me and roll out my quads. Rolling hurts but it's a good kind of hurt. I sit there, "ooooh! grunt! grunt! ow ow ow!" and roll.
Yoga! Power yoga! I really think that power yoga has helped me become a stronger runner as well as stretches me out. Yah stretching! It's good. :-)
Most recently I've purchased the hot pink CEP compression socks I've been coveting. I know, what a weirdo! I should be coveting shoes and bags! Like those gals on SATC, right? Hey, I'm a running girl!
My boyfriend bought them for me on Saturday. Yah, he buys me compression socks like other guys would buy a girl flowers! LOL. I was so happy I kept them in my purse with me after we left the store. And I had them with me when we went out for dinner and then I tried them on in the car. Then I pranced around the house on Sunday after my long run. I guess they worked because I don't usually prance around the house after a long, long run. I'm such a dork.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
My bucket list
Thinking about all the things I want on my list is taking a while. I’ve done a lot already like live abroad, travel across Canada, or hitch-hike.
Or lie in the middle of the road at night to watch the stars. I was with my friends and the road was still warm from the sun earlier in the day.
Or go skinny dipping! My friend and I decided on a spur of the moment to rush up to Horseshoe Bay to see if we could catch the last ferry to Langdale. We drove up the Sunshine Coast to a friend's cabin and stopped at one of our favourite lakes. We ran down to the beach and we didn’t have ANYTHING with us, not even towels. (Now if I had known the rule as stated in the Hitch Hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, I wouldn't have had this towel problem) We turned our backs to each other stripped down and ran into the water, WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Anyway, here's my list so far, in no particular order:
Or lie in the middle of the road at night to watch the stars. I was with my friends and the road was still warm from the sun earlier in the day.
Or go skinny dipping! My friend and I decided on a spur of the moment to rush up to Horseshoe Bay to see if we could catch the last ferry to Langdale. We drove up the Sunshine Coast to a friend's cabin and stopped at one of our favourite lakes. We ran down to the beach and we didn’t have ANYTHING with us, not even towels. (Now if I had known the rule as stated in the Hitch Hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, I wouldn't have had this towel problem) We turned our backs to each other stripped down and ran into the water, WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Anyway, here's my list so far, in no particular order:
Learn to golfdid this summer of 2008Run a half marathon- did my first one Feb. 2009! And did 4 more after that! Woo!Run a full marathon- Done! Oct 17, 2010 - Nike San Francisco Women's Marathon!!!- Run a marathon that I have to qualify for - this is going to take a looooong time
- Do a cycling competition
- Do a bicycle touring trip
- Rock climb
- Scuba dive - I’m taking lessons!!!
Snorkel- Surf
Get tattoos- Get some more tattoos- Wind surf
- Sail - not sure how I would do this because I get motion-sick, real sick
- Swim with dolphins like Bree Wee does
- Earn my own kayak - what I mean by earn is kayaking often enough to warrant buying my own, I love kayaking!
- A canoe trip - travel up to the Yukon and kayak/canoe back down
- Complete a triathlon
- Complete Ironman - this one will take a long time too
- Hang glide/paraglide
- Road trip - Oregon Coast? I've already done Canada...
- Sky dive - thinking about this just makes me weak in the knees
Lake-swimming in the rain- Climb a very tall mountain - oh maybe I'll start with Mount Kilimanjaro
- Help build a school
Live in a foreign country- live in another foreign country- Live in Hawaii a few years - I really really want to do this
- Sit atop Haleakala and watch the sunrise (I know, such a touristy thing to do but I still want to do it. I regret not doing so the last few times I was there!!)
- Relearn French, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, Mandarin and German
- Learn Spanish and Russian - dunno why I haven't picked up anything other than "Prvet"
- Become a Yoga instructor
- Go back to being vegetarian - maybe even vegan again.
- Travel the path of Siddartha Gautama through India and Nepal - this has been on my list forever!
- See more of Beautiful British Columbia
- Hike the West Coast Trail
- Go to Tofino - can't believe it's taking me so long to get to this one. If you're interested in taking me, I've always dreamed of staying here www.wickinn.com
- Heli-skiing - check it out www.whistlerheliskiing.com no jumping out of helicopters like in the Warren Miller videos!
- Raise bees and make my own "artisanal" honey
- Dogsledding!
- Learn to drive. Yes, that’s right. I DON'T drive... and it’s really hard to do a road trip if I don’t drive :-/ so ashamed to even admit it. But seriously I've biked, bussed and walked everywhere!
- Skinny dip! (like mentioned above, I've ready been skinny dipping)
- ...
- Tibet
- Nepal
- India
- Rajasthan
- Angkor Wat
- Vietnam
- Malaysia - meet my grandma and family
- go back to Japan
- Hong Kong - see my grandparents again before they go
- go back to Paris
- go back to Belgrade
- Scotland
- North and South Africa
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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