All Things Chill

Apparently, Rich sent me an e-mail (via Mark) forever ago telling me that my comment system was all jacked up. When Cailin shot me a message yesterday telling me the same thing, I pursed my lips and said to myself… “wtf, I didn’t fix that?” So I figured that all I needed was [...]

It’s 2 weeks late, but Liana and I went to Vancouver – Flickr album is here! We ate Goldfish for breakfast (hee hee). Imperial seafood (dim sum) in the marina district was decent, but HELLA EXPENSIVE. Robson street was cool, but a lot of what we have here in the U.S. (Gap, [...]

Eggplant and Summer Squash Gratin
What do you do when you’re visiting a church-related potluck for the first time? Make something that’s vegetarian, cheesy and definitely something in a baking dish. Hee hee. I loosely followed Ina Garten’s recipe of an eggplant gratin, but I added a few more zucchini and yellow squash [...]

One of the neighbors put out an IKEA shelving unit in our communal area and I decided to pull it into our place, wipe it down with a 5% bleach solution (cause you never kno) and stack things on it that would normally be sitting in boring cupboards.
I feel like that shelving piece [...]

Quick recipe! Fry eggs in butter sunny-side up. Find linguica or firm chorizo, cut into 3 inch slices and cut lengthwise. Broil sausages under broiler for 3 minutes or nicely charred. Toast english muffins. Slice cheddar in 1/4” slices. Half, de-seed avocado and slice into manageable pieces. Assemble [...]

So. Having my main PC out of commission for weeks has been discouraging myself from blogging on the regular. Yes, I have my trusty Apple laptop, but it just feels *off* when try to I do the things that I normally do at my desk by lounging on the couch (or incidentally, on [...]

I’ve had this damn post sitting in my drafts forward for so very long. King Corn. It’s a documentary about corn. Yes. Corn. It’s actually really good and it’s pretty funny. Liana blogged about it too. Yeah, I’m over this post. LOL.
WATCH IT KAIES?
~Spec

Thinking about eschewing dim sum at Imperial Seafood in Vancouver and hitting up the Powell Street Festival! Their website has the deets:
The Powell Street Festival Society’s (PSFS) mission is to celebrate the arts and culture of Japanese Canadians and Asian Canadians, to encourage Asian Canadians to take a leadership role in the development of [...]

Iron Giant on a hopefully beautiful night outdoors with peach iced tea and lemonade blended with ice and a bag full of homemade popcorn with flecks of furikake on top? YES PLEASE!
See you on the 16th!
~Spec