Clementines are better than mandarines.
Yep. They are. Clementines win.
I have tried both, and clementines are better. They are less tough, and more juicy and delicious.
I have even converted one Western-born Canadian! She tracked them down here in Vancouver and brought me some today! BEST!!!
Can’t wait to eat more when I go home for the holidays.
In other news, there was a bear downtown today!!! Wicked.
Last night Scott and I watched a movie called The Way. It was about a man walking the Camino de Santiago, which is a ~800 km walk from southwestern France to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain where Saint James is apparently buried. A lot of people do it as a religious pilgrimage, but you can do it for a non-religious reasons too. It’s supposed to be a journey of personal growth or a spiritual adventure.
The movie was a little more religious than we liked, but the actual journey itself is pretty neat.
I know a girl who has done it. She talked about all the people she met along the way. I wish I had asked her more questions!
It seems most people take 2 to 3 months to do it, but I just found a blog of some person that RAN it in 19 days!!! That’s like running 19 marathons in a row!!!!
I’m not sure I want to do the Camino de Santiago in particular, because approaching St. James on my knees is not really something I care about, but I’ve always wanted to do something big like that kind of trip. Take 6 months off from life and go on a long journey. Remember when I was dreaming of biking from Nunavut to Chile?? Haha. Anyway Scott is keen too, so maybe some day we will take off and go on a really long walk.
Muppets was good! It warmed my heart, I laughed out loud, it was nice.
I water marbled my nails again last week, and I think they are my BEST EVER.
I followed all the same steps as in my water marbling tutorial, but I didn’t swirl the nail polish with a toothpick because I wanted STRIPES.
I love them!!! I may never swirl again.
Last weekend we continued the annual tradition of going to see the Senators vs Canucks game with Brian and Morgan. I found the first period extremely boring (no one scored) but it got better and they went into overtime. I was looking forward to seeing a shoot-out in real life but the Canucks scored. :(
As I mentioned yesterday, Rosemarie came over this weekend. We played one game each of all the good games: Carcassonne, Settlers, Agricola and Dominion. Rose lost every game, haha, but she is a good sport.
This post includes no pictures of Scott because he has a hideous Movember mustache and I don’t like to look at him. I will do the right thing though and post his link if you care to donate in support of prostate cancer awareness. http://ca.movember.com/mospace/1695564/
I wrote a ton of midterms in the past couple weeks. I did super well!!!!
Final exams start in 8 days, so I’m supposed to be studying right now but I am having a very hard time focusing!!
Oh, I also water marbled my nails again. :/ Instead of studying for math, haha. But I’m pretty sure I aced that midterm so all is well.
My water marbling tutorial HERE.
I made sushi last week. My best ever!! Mine had salmon, avocado, cucumber and yam. OM NOM NOM. We bought a mondo bag of sushi rice so I guess there will be a lot more homemade sushi in the near future. :)
Rosemarie came over yesterday. I made a chicken pot pie while she did some school work. I used all fresh veggies, but I did not make the crust since we don’t have a food processor to make dough. Anyway I used a Pillsbury crust that came rolled up (not frozen), and it was quite nice. I followed this recipe, more or less.
I also made two mini ones to freeze for later. :D
I also made a rainbow cake last week. Cake mixes were on sale at No Frills for 99 cents so I grabbed a box of French Vanilla. I dyed the batter all different colours in separate bowls and then just drizzled them randomly into the pan. I made my own icing but didn’t have enough icing sugar (HOLY COW icing uses A LOT of sugar!!!) so it was a bit runny…. but it kinda soaked into the cake and that was actually delicious. I topped the cake with rainbow chocolate chips because I am 5.
Mmmmmm cake.
I also tried Budget Bytes Summer Vegetable Tian. In the winter. Yep. It was tasty, like of all of her recipes. I think her blog might be my favourite food blog of them all! It’s all about making nice food on a budget (duh). Anyway I put slices of potato, sweet potato, tomato, zucchini, and eggplant, with lots of herbs, and a little cheese on top.
Other food success stories without pictures:
Mirza Ghasemi, a Persian eggplant dish with TONS O’ GARLIC. Verrrry tasty, just don’t breathe on anyone after. We ate it with rice. I really liked this dish, the flavour was different than everything else I cook. I recommend trying this one if you like eggplant a lot like we do.
Jalapeno Popper Quiche, turned out great. Next time I would add a lot more jalapenos.
Savoury Fruit Stuffing. Bit late for this I suppose, but I forgot to post it. This is the stuffing I made at Thanksgiving. It was SO GOOD. OK as usual I changed things: not as much onion as it said, veggie stock powder + rosemary + thyme instead of the herbs it said (didn’t have sage), and no orange peel.
Oven-fried onion rings. I had major trouble getting anything to stick on to the onions, but the parts that did were SUPER crunchy and delicious