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Banana Maple Muffins

Posted on Posted in 2013, Family, Food .

On Wednesday, my sister-in-law (Heather), brother-in-law (Colin) and youngest niece (Emily) returned to Ontario after a really great week-long visit. It was great to see them and to have the six of us together for the first time under one roof.

Before leaving, they gave us a
hostess gift that included some maple syrup. Now anyone who knows my husband is aware of how much he loves maple syrup and he's a bit of a snob when it comes to cooking or baking with the liquid gold.

Heather noticed that we have a decent stash of maple syrup, but it's mainly because we can't get anything that's local and if we ever do run out of our Ontario staff, we'll have to resort to purchasing it from Costco or another major commercial retailer… Which just makes us shudder.

But we really do have a lot. We have medium grade and also what some would call “number three” (also known as dark maple syrup or grade B).

I decided to start looking up some baking recipes. I may look into other recipes, but for now, here are the details of a muffin recipe I followed this mornings.

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Spaghdogs? Hotspaghs? Hybrid food FTW!

Posted on Posted in 2012, 2013, Facebook, Food .

I originally started writing this post in February 2012. I think it was before I was big into Pinterest and finding lots of unique food ideas. I can’t remember if it was Claire or Abby who inspired me to try these crazy things based on a photo they shared on Facebook… but it was a lot of fun!

Precooked

Prepped and ready to be boiled!


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Up, up and away part 3

Posted on Posted in 2012, Food, GSE 2012, Rotary, Taiwan .

Tokyo to Taipei

This plane is significantly smaller than compared to the plane we took from Toronto to Tokyo. With nine seats to a row (3x3x3 groupings), our final flight still has a lot of rows (I’m in row 34 and here are still a more behind me). And seating is 2x3x2 for each row.

Not necessarily exciting details I realize, but the sort of observation you may have while waiting for the flight to take off and this is your third flight in a day.

Now on to the food!

We were given the option to have either dinner A or B and I was coming out of a groggy sleep when asked what I wanted. I had already read a brochure on the plane that mentioned both a traditional Japanese dinner or a Western dinner was available. When the flight attendant asked (remember, I was only half awake), all I heard was “blah, blah, shrimp, blah blah also shrimp.” To which I said, “Yeah, sure, shrimp. Yes please.” I was hedging my bets that shrimp would lead to the traditional meal… And boy did it ever! Yum!!

It was all really good, but I couldn’t eat all of that food after the multiple meals I had had since my first flight. But I will tell you that the dessert (in the top right corner) was amazing! It was like two mini pancakes with red bean paste in between and a little whip cream on the side. I also want to note that the green tea was the best I’ve ever had. I drank as many cups as I could get my hand ons. After having my forth small glass, I think the flight attendant who served me multiple times thought there was something wrong with me to be so enthusiastic about hot tea…

 

Ironically, this flight has felt a big longer than I’d like. But after a full day of travel, I’m ready to arrive at our final destination. I wonder what the weather in Taiwan will be like? It’s milder and warmer than what we have in Newfoundland and Labrador, but I don’t think it will be that “warm and gross” feeling I experienced far too many times during summers in Toronto. It is rainy season in Taiwan, but I come from the province that’s well known for rain, drizzle and fog, so I really don’t think it will bother me.

 

 

 

Curry Curry!

Posted on Posted in 2012, Food, NL, St. John's, Toronto .

It is rather unfortunate, but we do not have an authentic Thai restaurant in St. John’s.

Matt was pretty devastated when he realized this sad fact; especially when we regularly went for Thai when we previously lived in Toronto.
BTW, if you haven’t been to Salad King, GO. Go now and enjoy its amazing deliciousness!!

My husband is an amazing cook and I’m pretty darn lucky. I’m doubly lucky because he makes a wicked Thai curry and his Indian curry is nothing to scoff at either.

On Sunday, after I had had a rather craptastic morning and the rest of the afternoon was rather low key, Matt suggested we have Thai curry for dinner. My immediate reaction was, “Yippie!”

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Stout beer and short-rib poutine