Back in August, we had our annual canoe trip. It was a canoe trip in the sense that it was a trip, and there were canoes, but I don't think I would call this a typical canoe trip by any definition!
This would be the second time that Keelan and I were taking John and Kelvin, and the first time for Hussain. We already had one guy drop out. But no matter, they're all strong and have done trips before! We'll just get Kelvin into a solo boat! No problem.
We were headed to the Temagami region, and it was going to be my first time there. In fact, it'd be everyone's first time there, except Keelan's. All I'd heard from him was that the lakes were big and the wind could be even bigger. Meanwhile, after my extremely windy trip on the French River last year, I was thinking, could it be worse than a constant funnel?
As usual, I procrastinated editing photos, but at least they are being put up in the same month in which I took them!
We had an unseasonably warm weekend where it was over 25C! That was unexpected… not unpleasant, but I’m not sure I liked it. We had a lot of garden work planned and doing that in summer-like heat was not fun.
Anyway, under the cut are some photos I’d like to highlight, but the full gallery is also available at this link!
I'm also trying to pack lunches for when I go into the office. And what better way to enjoy lunch than making it super cute?!
Above is rice in the shape of an otter. It's in a sea of onion ginger sauce from the shogayaki pork. There's also a hardboiled egg and some yu choy with oyster sauce. This was actually a lunch for the boyfriend but I'm counting it anyway because it's just so cute.
Every year, I try to be more responsible about cooking dinner (as opposed to ordering takeout). So maybe if I post about it on my blog, I'll both keep up with blogging and cooking dinner!
On March 5th, I went to a wagashi making class! It was at a local cooking studio, and I’d been wanting to do it for a while! In fact, I had talked to some of my friends about the wagashi class from this cooking studio back in March 2020, but y’know… some stuff happened in March 2020. But at any rate, it was nice to actually get to attend and learn!
The two wagashi that we learned to make in this 5h class were a nerikiri maple leaf and a kinton Christmas tree. Very seasonally appropriate, haha.
Finally got around to editing and uploading my photos from a couple weekends ago! It's all dog photos, unsurprisingly. This was such a weird weekend – we managed to drive up to the farm house! Normally in February, there's way too much snow. And then it was so warm that we could even turn the water on, and it got even warmer and a bunch of the remaining snow melted.
Of course, I'm typing this now when we've been hit by two snow storms in as many weeks, so y'know. Canadian weather.
Anyway, link to the photo gallery is here! Also, I can’t wait until I can make blog posts straight from Snap.as galleries. I should potentially explore making a blog-friendly photo display thing in Markdown too… but that’d be for the code blog, haha.
I developed my own sandwich loaf recipe a while ago… now that I have an actual blog set up, I guess I should maybe post it?
Plus I bought these super adorable pans!! Who wouldn’t love bunny and bear head shaped bread?! My recipe conveniently makes one Pullman loaf or two animal head loaves, too.
