Easter Weekend

Sea Cider tasting and conversation with good friends.

Brisk walk along Island View Beach.

Delicious dinner at new-to-us Brentwood Bay bistro Zanzibar.

My first batch of Hot Cross Buns.

Sunday brunch and Easter Egg Hunt with the bf’s family (thanks Crystal!).

Detox from sugar and bacon coma.  Hoppy Easter!

Fri-Sat-Sun

Mug care of my fabulous friend Rose’s Spring vacay!

Wild Coho salmon…

Sick pooper pupper.

Ataulfo mango > Haden mango

Weekend saviour…Thai take-out.

Hoppy Easter!

Snazzy dresser.

I’m like a kid in a candy store…except it’s a produce store.

Go Canucks Go!! 

Sugar Overload

Poor FH seems to have contracted yet another cold, so with having to be on the cold ship all day yesterday and overnight he's come home sicker than a dog. (what does that mean anyway?!) He got home really early this morning so rather than disturb me in bed, he curled up on the couch. Poor guy. Of course, he was still there when I went downstairs to start my day so I had to be quiet and couldn't do too much in the kitchen.

So I put on the coffee and put together a quick and easy breakfast of Liberte yogurt and a fruit plate. I was planning to curl up on the couch with my book this morning but he foiled that plan so I ended up at the kitchen table instead.

He woke up just as I was finishing eating, and since I'd promised him pancakes and sausages for Sunday breaky I landed up eating a second breakfast. I had figured he was going to sleep half the day away....if I'd known he would be hungry within the hour I wouldn't have bothered with the filling bowl of yogurt!

Easy pancakes made with Bisquick & vanilla soy milk (ssshhhhh....he doesn't know that!) and these cute little Johnsonville breakfast sausages I found at the store the other day. I only ate two pancakes and one sausage...the rest I saved for a snack tomorrow instead.

After eating I got to decorating my sugar cookies. I forgot to mention last night that in between my paperwork sorting I baked off 5.5 dozen cookies.

I iced all but one dozen, which I put into the freezer for sometime in the future. Aren't they festive and cute?! I taste tested one of the little ones with the Smarties just because for some reason I had a baker's dozen of those. The icing seems to be hardening quite nicely so I'll be packing some of these up as gifties for some friends.

I've also done two loads of laundry and cleaned the kitchen and one pantry cupboard. Now it's time for more paperwork sorting and data entry. Oh yippee. At least once I get all of this paper off the floor, I'll have room to do some yoga!

Happy Easter!

Friday Night Leftovers

After visiting with our friends and their teeeeeny tiny little baby girl (with a MOP of hair...amazing!) FH was feeling kind of crappy so decided to take a nap. Instead of bothering with a huge dinner that we wouldn't eat until like 9pm I decided just to make myself a salad and eat um the leftover pasta.

Easy-peasy.

In the salad: romaine & iceberg, brocolli, matchstick carrots, red onion, mushrooms, Renee's Spring Herb dressing

I wanted a chunk of the bread I bought to go with the pork tenderloin dinner we were supposed to have. Was perfect for sopping up sauce. This is the margarine recommended by FH's nutritionist so I use it too when I just want a quick spread of something buttery. (It runs circles around Becel for flavor but it certainly ain't butter.)

The pasta was just the leftover creamy tomato spaghetti from the other night, with some extra spinach wilted in and an extra scoop of sauce.

I enjoyed this at the table with the final Twilight book Breaking Dawn and a stack of newspaper flyers. I get a weird enjoyment out of reading the weekly flyers!

When FH got up we were watching a movie so I brought out a few Easter treats (yes, I have a big bag of loot!). Reese's PB bunnies. Too cute. and yum too.

Now off to bed for a PVR'd episode of United States of Tara. LOVE that show!