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Published date February 19, 2013
As I mentioned in my TILT last Thursday, I really love Valentine’s Day, and like last year JC set up a nice big thoughtful surprise. He didn’t tell me what he was up to until about 20 minutes before we arrived at the restaurant, just that we’d need to be...
READ MORE Valentine’s Day 2013 – Taste Valentine – Vegan Style at Canoe
Published date February 14, 2013
What a delightful Thursday, and how nice of it to fall on Valentine’s Day. Even when I was single Valentine’s Day was one of those strange lovely days where I’d try and arrange online Valentine’s Day Card/gift exchanges with strangers (and yes, this whole swapping thing has been ever present)...
Published date February 8, 2013
I’m having one of those wonderful days where I’m appreciating what I have, and feeling quite lucky. Taking stock of things and itemizing them has a way of really keeping that energy up when where ARE a lot of terrible things happening in the world, to the planet, in my...
READ MORE Things I Love Thursday – Baking, Giving blood, Cats, JC, Soundcloud
Published date February 6, 2013
This weekend was the “Totally Fabulous Vegan Bake Off” and I think it was probably the best one yet. Really organized, great treats, and an accessible indoor venue. I’ve been to three of the bake off’s (For a trip down memory lane: 3rd Annual Vegan Bake Off, 4th Annual Vegan Bake...
READ MORE Toronto’s Fifth Annual Totally Fabulous Vegan Bake Off
Published date February 1, 2013
Things I love Thursday is here again, and there are lots of things and places and ideas I love, but I’m trying to contain myself. Mise En Place I’ve only recently started employing the Mise-en-place style of baking, and I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long. Baking is...
READ MORE Things I Love Thursday – Mise En Place, Urban Farming, Foster cats, Vine
Published date January 16, 2013
Kupfert & Kim has been open for a little over 2 weeks in First Canadian Place, on King and Bay in the heart of the Financial District. If you want to find it, it’s on the concourse (lower level) and right beside the LCBO and near a variety of other...
Published date January 9, 2013
Last month I received and sent a vegan food swap to Sasha of One Small Vegan. I enjoy her blog a lot because she’s always cooking something up, and it’s inspiring. I haven’t been cooking or baking as much as I’d like to, so it’s nice to see some encouraging and delicious...
READ MORE Vegan Food Swap – December – Thank you to Ms One Small Vegan.
Published date January 2, 2013
It’s been an amazing year, and 2013 promises to be exceptional as well. We got back in to Toronto this morning on the red eye from Las Vegas. It was one of the most easy going customs experiences I’ve ever had coming back into Canada. Maybe we looked especially pathetic...
READ MORE Happy New Year! Good bye 2012, Hello 2013 – Resolutions, Bucket Lists, and Goals for 2013
Published date December 13, 2012
I’ve been thinking about vegan gift ideas for the last few weeks, and there have already been lots of great ideas put out there by the Toronto Vegetarian Association and the Torontoist‘s Toronto Themed Gift List. Toronto has this great community of creators and crafters, bakers and makers, and ingenuity....
READ MORE Things I Love Thursday – A Few Local Toronto Vegan Gift Ideas
Published date December 5, 2012
As soon as winter rolls around I need lip balm and I need it ASAP. Considering I come from a dry climate (Edmonton), I’ve acclimated to the Toronto humidity quite quickly, and when it’s gone, I notice. Toronto goes from being a mostly humid city to zero suddenly, and it isn’t pretty. My usual...
READ MORE Bare English & Co – Made in Toronto – Interview and Review (and giveaway!)