BA in Vancouver

So I am a few months removed from these original photos, but it seemed like a good time to post them as we are in the midst of a fall rainfall. This past summer, I made my annual trek out to the farmlands to pick strawberries. I went to a farm I have been going […]

I have a pretty long commute for work and it’s all on public transportation. As a result, my arrival to work and then later at home, really is at the mercy of the Transit Lords. The Transit Lords giveth and the Transit Lords taketh away. Sometimes they taketh away really hard. I won’t go into […]

So I am a little late to this parade. I had heard about it years ago when it came out but I didn’t have the urge or tools to do it. Fast forward 8 years and I finally have a 5qt cast iron casserole to make the famous Jim Lahey No Knead Bread! A quick […]

Sometimes inspiration comes to you at work. My lovely coworker who is big into local eating (and gardening) gave me a bag of fresh & cured garlic…straight from her garden! This is the first time I have ever cooked with fresh garlic and I was excited to use it. What to do…what to do… I’m […]

I received this birthday cake request last year and I dutifully stored it in the back of my mind under “Cake Requests”. I find it pretty helpful to get requests – I have a good direction of what to prepare and I can explore how to really “kick it up a notch”. For those not […]

One of the surprising benefits of stepping up the intensity of my training is that I get to eat a lot more! That being said, my choices are a lot healthier. I find I get hungry quite frequently and I pack a lot of healthy snacks to keep me going throughout the day. Unfortunately my […]