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July 29, 2012

Edmonton – Farmers Market, Clever Rabbit, West Edmonton Mall. Where else?

Yesterday was our first full day in Edmonton and we filled it up with a whole bunch of Edmontonriffic activities. Starting the day off bright and early (or just normal in Toronto) we went over to the City Market Downtown / 104th Street Farmers Market to take a look at...

July 28, 2012

Edmonton – A few hours into our week.

JC and I are in Edmonton now. Our trip on Air Canada was uneventful, and food less. They promote a vegetarian panini, with red pepper hummus, but failed to have it on the flight. Vegan options are next to non-existent in their “On Board menu” so it was almost exciting to...

July 24, 2012

Vegan and going to the Toronto Beer Festival.

If you live in Toronto you will have noticed the Toronto Beer Festival posters around the city. I know I have. I like beer events, because of the same reason I like food events. The celebration of flavours and fun, and interacting with people that make the product happen, while...

July 21, 2012

JC’s Birthday Breakfast fest.

This was the second birthday I’ve celebrated with JC, and I wanted to make it delicious and awesome. And I’m pretty sure I succeeded. Here is an overview of the preparations for our lovely day together.

July 20, 2012

Things I Love Thursday (on Friday) – BBQs, Birthday, and some other B’s (not really)

On Wednesday I successfully put together the BBQ I ordered for JC’s birthday (which was on Saturday). It was delivered in a giant 70lbs box, and upon opening it, I was immediately transported to less happy times, putting together Swedish furniture. But luckily, it was really easy, and the instructions...

July 9, 2012

10,000 Tastes, 1 Billion Reasons – Vegetarian fun in Yonge-Dundas Square

On Saturday we wandered over to Yonge & Dundas Square to check out the 10,000 Tastes, 1 Billion Reasons event. A celebration of veg products near and far. I missed it last year, so we made a point to visit it this time. When we arrived shortly before noon, there...

July 6, 2012

Things I love Thursday – It’s hot edition

The past 7 days have been interesting, they’ve been hard, they’ve been exciting, they’ve been nerve wracking, they’ve been inspiring, and they’ve been fun. It’s not often that I get to go on a roller coaster of emotions in both my personal and professional life, but I’m often better off...

July 4, 2012

Foodie Penpal Swap – June 2012

I’m sure it is pretty obvious that I love sending stuff through the mail. Once upon a time I relayed that love with sending postcards (on postcrossing), and crafts on swapbot, or zine swaps or penpals from other countries. Now I still have penpals, but we don’t write very often,...

June 30, 2012

Vegan Food Swap Reveal – June 2012

This month my partner in vegan food swappery was Jodi from Simply Fresh. She sent me several delightful local Ottawa products and I really enjoyed getting introduced to them. So what was in the box: Michael’s Dolce Jam Orange & Ginger Jam Major Craig’s Chutney Classic Caribbean Chutney Kawalsa Salsa...

June 26, 2012

National BBQ Day at Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary

I have been interested and involved in Meal Exchange activities ever since the first Halloween I dressed up and collected canned food instead of candy. So when they started promoting National BBQ day, and the idea of supporting local producers I was completely into it. It happened to fall on...