My New Toaster

Toaster

You know how it is. You move, you unpack, you try to make dinner. That’s when you discover that, somehow, all of the things that made your kitchen functional have disappeared. The bowls, the spices, the potato peeler, the frying pans, the saran wrap, the cutlery, the table, apparently these all belonged to your former roommate. [...]

Disaster Cookies

cookies

Day One Moved into a new apartment. Day Seven Wanted cookies. Investigated cupboards. Shocked to find we didn’t have any cookies. Day Eight Thought about making cookies. Investigated fridge. Shocked to find we didn’t have any butter. Day Nine Bought butter. Day Ten Left butter on counter to warm up for baking process. Forgot about butter. [...]

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Aberration

hersheyreeses

When you write a world renowned blog followed by millions of super important people, it can be tempting to succumb to your blardom (blog-stardom) and post all the time about really trivial stuff, just to keep your adoring fans happy. That’s why I haven’t posted in so long. I’m dedicated to ensuring the quality of [...]

Girl Meets Canada: The Missing Drinks

Beer bottle

It has been brought to my attention via my faithful readers (ie, Frank) that I haven’t provided a drink recipe for a few provinces. Oops! Bad blogger! Bad, bad blogger! In my defence, I breezed through New Brunswick in just over a day and didn’t really do anything there, so I didn’t feel like a [...]

Girl Meets Canada: Meh-nitoba

Gimli's Viking

Day 38 (Wed, June 16th) Okay, that title isn’t fair. Manitoba isn’t all meh. But I thought it was funny, so I’m using it. I don’t know what I was expecting from Manitoba. I’ve always felt a fondness for the province, even though I’d only been to it once (yes, on that same road trip [...]

Girl Meets Canada: Black Prairie

Paralyzer

Before I leave off tales from Saskatchewan (and my shamefully stupid youth, as related in my last post) I must concoct a drink to honour the middle of our fair prairie provinces. This beverage is inspired by Blackie, and elderly gentleman I met in a bar in Moose Jaw. (No, Granny, I wasn’t being foolish [...]

Girl Meets Canada: Babies and Bloody Vikings

Alice and Me

Day 22 (Monday, May 31st) I made it to my Calgary friends, Vicki and Tim, and was immediately scolded for not calling them when I got into town the night before. Yeah, like I’m going to call a household with three children at midnight. What do you think I was, raised by wolves? Granted, I [...]

Girl Meets Canada: Blackberry Sunrise

Jesus Ducks

Day 16 (Tues, May 25th) I need to mention two more things about Hope before we can all move on. #1 Angie and I went for a walk along the river and we saw the miraculous Jesus Ducks. These little bags of donuts run on water. So Cute! They sort of moved like the Road [...]

Life As A Human Article: Death by Donut

(View the full article at Life As A Human.) How do you all feel about gift cards? I have a love/hate relationship with them. On the one hand, they’re pretty handy to pick up as a present for people who you’re supposed to shop for but don’t know that well. New friends, coworkers, secret Santas. [...]

Life As A Human Article: The End of an (Pizza) Era

(Read the full article at Life As A Human.) Let me set the scene for you. It’s summer 2001. I’ve just moved to Vancouver in (what turns out to be a failed) attempt to do some higher education stuff. After rent and damage deposits and tuition and bus passes I’m totally broke. Like I can’t [...]