My internet is fixed.
My IPhone has arrived.
The lights of heaven have shone down on me and the angels sang.
And although I'm super happy, I also approach this situation with a little apprehension.
You see, I have to catch up on about 3 weeks (or more) of e-mails and messages!!
Looks like I have a lot of coffee to brew!
First things first. Something beautiful and inspiring:
It is from a flag stone in Jack Kerouak Alley in San Francisco.
Valentine's Day just passed.
I hope everyone had an awesome Valentine's Day weekend!
My Valentine's weekend was awesome!
Starting with the Overexxxposed show on
Saturday night:
{photo by AJ Lam, black and white photo of ME by Ward}
Sunday, one of the most relaxing days ever...
Historical documentaries, warm slippers, mugs of tea, the tasty chip crumbs at the bottom of the bag, and basically sleeping in and bumming around...
This PBS documentary about the
Medici family from Florence was interesting, but really slow moving.
Here it is if you want to watch it too!
Monday: poutine, beer, and cards night, home-made blueberry pies and food fights!
The poutine at
Cadillac Lounge is HUGE!
Here's the pie I made. I didn't use a recipe so I can't tell you how I made it,
BUT
there is an AMAZING recipe for the other pie I made near the bottom of this post.
Blueberries for Vasko's face.
This is Cyrus and Boom Boom.
Cyrus wanted to be Boom Boom's friend, so as a test of his friendship he has to perform 3 tasks.
The first task was to get Sima to say "My favorite dinosaur is a Lickalottapuss".
The second task was to draw a face on Vasko's deep fried fish with ketchup.
That's ketchup mastery if I do say so myself!
And the third task was to do a sexy photo shoot with Peter.
Cyrus and Boom Boom.
Such good friends!
Tuesday, flowers and food at
Marben!
Shown below (for all the ravenous foodies out there) is
Taylor's Squash Soup with chantilly cream, croutons, and sage oil
and
Zander's Sage and Brown Butter Gnocchi with squash coulis, brussel sprouts, and shallot rings
Not shown are the oysters and the Beef Cheek Ravioli.
There was also a little something called "
Devastating Chocolate Fudge Pie"
which tastes heavenly with Vanilla Ice Cream and Dulce De Leche
(recipe below)
"Devastating Chocolate Fudge Pie"
To make one 9-inch pie:
1 unbaked pie shell, made from 1/2 lb. short-crust dough
3 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
8 tbsp butter
4 eggs
3 tbsp light corn syrup
1 + 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
In the top of a double boiler over boiling water, heat the chocolate and butter, stirring until melted and blended; allow the mixture to cool slightly. Beat the eggs; blend in the corn syrup, sugar, salt, and vanilla extract. Add the chocolate mixture; blend well. Pour the mixture into the pie shell. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 400' F for five minutes. Reduce the temperature to 350' F and continue baking for 30 minutes, or until the pie is almost, but not quite, firm when shaken.
**Close to the end, I decorated the top of the pie with roasted almonds and marshmallows. Next time, more almonds! They were amazing!**
AWESOME!!!
(photo by ME in the Dominican Republic)
