Champagne Wednesdays

Hope you all had a nice weekend! Ever since Friday, when Ash and I served homemade Coq au Vin to our wonderful friends, I have been on a recipe rampage. Tonight I’m making Chana Punjabi with the spice kit my mother bought Ash from Vij’s Rangoli. I found the recipe on the blog,  The Wednesday Chef, who writes: “I have been [...]

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When it’s all sun and cherry blossoms in Vancouver, it’s hard to imagine that a short 1.5 hour drive away you could be faced with snow - and lots of it. All over the trail and in your way while you’re trying to be active so you can justify drinking more champagne.  That’s why in the pictures below [...]

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Celebrated Champagne Wedesday a bit early last night with Rich and Erin at Zefferelli’s and then Le Crocodile for dessert (both the solid and liquid varieties). My creme brule was a bit disappointing, especially from one of Vancouver’s most famous French restaurants, but the champagne was perfect, crisp and sparkling. We had a good laugh [...]

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One year and 200 posts later, I celebrate my blog’s anniversary with a return to antiquing. You might recall last March when I came home with this champagne bucket from Mission. That seven dollar bucket still brings me great joy. It’s funny how far small wins can take us. I am glad I stuck with blogging - otherwise [...]

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  Perfect spot for blog strategizing with beer: Post Restaurant & Lounge, Seattle. Patricia Gray, I am so glad you are from Vancouver. I am also glad you told me about these.  Spring picnics anyone? And this snippet, from the poem Marginalia by Billy Collins and found on the blog Wide Open Spaces. It made laugh heartedly: [...]

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  I am one of those lucky women who can say they married well. Very well.  Look how he saved me from falling over this steep and unruly cliff.  Ok, maybe he didn’t save my life, but he made my life. Even better. Today’s proof: a smorgasaboard of muffins delivered to my office (in-person) from [...]

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(Please ignore the covert, spy-quality blackberry photo) Risky business(es): 1) Intravenous Drugs; 2) Opening a restaurant next to the Ivanhoe. Undercover as a grossly ignored corner of Vancouver’s most troubled area, something interesting springs to life. A restaurant. It kind of reminds me of this:   Having been raised in East Vancouver, the word “Ivanhoe” conjures up a lot of imagery pertaining [...]

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Things this girl likes today: The song, The Girl, by City and Colour (especially how it ends and then starts again faster and more feverously, as if to say he really means it the second time). The owner of Provide Home, who welcomed me into his fabulous store yesterday with pleasant conversation and a Nespresso cappuccino.  Across from Chambar and Cafe Medina [...]

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   …Champagne Wednesday as fiance and fiance , we plan to spend alone.  I suggest you go to the Libra Room and listen to live Jazz over a Roasted Beet Salad with Boursin ($7) and a bottle of Il Mionetto ($18!). As Ash tells me people in the smoky underground Chicago Jazz clubs say:  That’s it Charlie. You got it Charlie. [...]

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My mom’s Thanksgiving table, lit by the backyard sun. Flowers from my Grandpa. Brunch at the Irish Heather. My new, old favourite Gastown haunt. Stools leading to the Shebeen Whiskey House. A study of light and absence. Abundance.

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