Sneak Peek: Italy

I landed on Canadian soil two days ago, am still jet lagged and haven't had the chance to sift through my photos yet. But I have many, many photos! This is a preview of things to come, so stay tuned.

Pasta with Tuna and Tomato Sauce

Sometimes, a meal made of canned goods is the way to go.


You know those days: when you're feeling lazy; the vegetables look sad and wilted at the grocery store because we're on our eleventy month of winter; you don't think you can do another dish of root vegetables.

(I will admit to eating mashed sweet potatoes and nothing else as a meal and do not regret it.)


This is one of my favourite pasta dishes because it contains:

• Anchovies, which gets a bad reputation but adds so much depth to a dish.
• Tuna, because who doesn't love tuna? (A list of sustainably sourced tuna is listed here.)
• Pasta. I love pasta, so much that I think it would be the last thing I would eat before dying (though I have the right to change my mind at any time). Note to self: stop buying gluten-free pasta because it lacks the al dente goodness and hence, is terrible and not worth eating. Life is too short to go gluten-free (unless necessary).

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Winter Blahs

Winter has broken me.

It may be my least favourite season, but this year seems worse than usual.

I'm tired of snow. I'm tired of the cold. I'm just tired and uninspired and it's only February.


Longing for this weather.

Ottawa Wedding

You might have heard of this thing called a polar vortex.


It has been making my winter more miserable than usual. If you have never experience -36 degrees C windchill, I can tell you that it is very painful. And cold. But mostly painful, in the ohdeargoodness, someone-just-put-me-out-of-my-misery kind of way.

Fortunately, the one weekend I went up to Ottawa, the weather warmed up.


The unfortunate part was that freezing rain coated the streets and sidewalks and turned the whole city into an ice rink.


Of course that didn't stop me from all the eating. I brunched until I could brunch no more, and followed it up with some donuts.



The real reason why I went to Ottawa was to attend my dear friend El's wedding. While geography has distanced us since our university days, she will always have a special place in my heart as the person who helped me pass swimming class (oh, to be a kin major), the person who dyed my hair when I wanted that change, and the cramming and dancing and toga parties that came with being a student.

I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Apple Cider Caramels

I know we're supposed to be taking a break from all things sugary due to overconsumption from the past several weeks, but I meant to share this with you before the holidays. Once a procrastinator, always a procrastinator.


It's no secret that Deb is one of my favourite food bloggers so when she released a cookbook last year, I knew I had to own it.


Like her website, it's filled with wonderful recipes that I'm itching to try and the ones that I have attempted at turned out foolproof.

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