Monday, February 23, 2009

Sweet (potato) dreams are made of thee...

Long, cold, hard Canadian winters are the precise combination that ensure soup cravings are a plenty. 

I made this healthy, hearty, and extremely flavourful, creamy sweet potato soup the other day. Complete yum, even after the few modifications I decided to make.

INGREDIENTS
2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped carrot
4 cups peeled sweet potatoes
1 tsp chopped fresh ginger
3-4 tsp mixed indian spices (2 parts cumin, 2 parts yellow curry powder...and a dash of misc. unlabeled brown spice worked for me...garam masala perhaps?)
1/2 cup light coconut milk 
fresh ground pepper
2 tsp lemon juice

DIRECTIONS
Heat up the olive oil in a medium-large pot at medium heat. 
Throw in the onions and saute for a few minutes until they soften and brown up a bt.
Add all the carrots and sweet potatoes to the onions and saute for a few minutes more.
Mix the ginger, indian spices, and warm everything together for a minute. 
Pour the vegetarian chicken broth into the pot along with the coconut milk and bring it all to a boil.
Cover the pot, while turning the heat down to low, and simmer for 15-20 minutes, or until the vegetables are very soft.
Puree the soup with whatever you've got (I use our blender, carefully, hot soup people!) until smooth.
Stir in the lemon juice, and season to taste.

A lunch time left-over serving of this beta carotene spicy goodness is about to be served :)




Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Blerg!

No more caffeine for this jittery nerve-wreck...this morning was the final straw...final bag anyways. 

I love you green tea, and cliched I know, but it's most definitely NOT you, it's me. I just can't tolerate your near exact coffee level of central nervous system stimulation. Luckily the Swede's have had this problem (I'm guessing) for longer then I...and the Swiss water process is where it's at. 

At least the ensuing diuresis isn't effecting my monitored call centre statistics for once :)

I've had absolutely nothing nice to say about the TTC lately, and most especially not the #80 Keele bus we're forced to deal with on an all too regular basis...
today however, I can finally THANK YOU for not coming (don't expect that to happen again). It's been a while since I had a day off, and today fits the bill perfectly. 

Can you believe it's already November?

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!

But since I already have those...and...well...adamantly choose not to celebrate Christmas...I'd like these:

* the new apartment 
* everything we want/need for the new apartment
* itouches (that's right, plural...we need 2)
* my CPA enrollment/books, along with the confidence and studying power to complete the course with an overall mark of 80% or over
* PN launch
* sanity
* SG version 1.0 to be stricken from the records (if you only knew)

As non-descript as I tend to be here (sweet cherished personal privacy), there's actually a LOT to be accomplished before year end, and even more so during the new calendar year.

While I might not keep the interwebs up to date (what can I say, I'm a busy beaver), at least I'm dated up ;)

And extremely excited to decorate our new space!...1 thing I will be forever indebted to my mom, as she actually did a great job honing my love, interest, and knowledge of home decoration ( D.I.Y!) .

Friday, October 31, 2008

*muah*

Area 51 = High Park <3

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Rewind...fast forward...play!

Hiya...or should I say, HI-YA!

I mean...we did kind of hang out with Bruce Lee last night. He lives eternally at our eerily coincidental old school pool hall hangout, Captain Snookers, in Mississauga. I kid you not (he's there both in person AND via kickass caricature on the wall!).

Last weekend simply cannot be summed via word for word blog entry (nor pictures, as none were taken), but thankfully it was firmly engrained into my pulpy brain film...and...well...was sheer unforgettable bliss <3

We enjoyed electro awesomeness!

here ---> The Social

Refused to sleep, dolled up and strolled over to eat on the Titanic. Verifying front row and center, that the band went down playing.

here ---> Palais Royale

And as always, ended up in tomfoolery...

here ---> High Park

Fun, food, and nature...with you <3

I thought I was dreaming (insobriety aside...hehe) the whole time.

This weekend we've been easing back into the real world. My least favourite place to be...well it used to be...until we met...

Things have changed...and how.

*smiles*

<3

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

:) + :( = :/

I don't even know where to start...

These are just a random spattering of some very personal topics that have been on my mind lately:

- my new job is such a blessing
- I refuse to make any more big mistakes in life
- my immediate family is seriously tragic (I cry about this a lot)
- money is an ongoing battle...but one I'm confident will eventually be won
- assuming a new identity is not an option, but the amount of collectors on my ass is BAD...scary actually...
- my health is improving and getting better every month (I think)
- I'm so madly in love...*blush*
- I can't afford a divorce, but would like one very much
- if I don't take it one day at a time I'll be committed (seriously)...but if I don't plan ahead I'm screwed...
- I have a cluttered life that's going to be organized no matter what it takes
- I'm done with putting every one ahead of myself
- Our soon-to-be new apartment is going to be so, SO amazing in every way
- there's no reason for my dreams not to become realities
- I'm not alone anymore <3
- the tumor-y growth thing in my lower region has been growing...and is not a good luck charm that cannot be removed, heh
- I'm a stronger soul then I ever could, or would have imagined
- pretty sure that I'm in the home stretch of one of the worst transitional periods of my entire life
- I love life more then life

There's more...much more...but that's enough for now :P

This list is by no means an accurate (or current) profile of *ever* changing me...I just haven't had the time, space, or means to journal much lately...

Thursday, July 24, 2008

It's more then o.k.

All of a sudden I started having a pretty deepening "This too shall pass" moment...not fun...but I am human after all.

Or is the verdict still out on that one? lol :P

Logically (and thankfully), it was easily diverted.

I kind of have an equal amount of excitement/anxiousness/uncertainty about life right now...

Things are going almost too good...I can see and feel my goals and dreams slowly meshing with reality lately...it's unreal.

There have always been a lot of 'never'(s) in my life. I'm no stranger to serious negativity (from myself, my partner, my family, + ).

Maybe I'm just not entirely used to this awesomeness I now call life...I've always felt that I could never truly strive without an almost 100% positive environment...wow, I really am a hippie...

The fact that I'm STILL in a bit of limbo...a lot actually...
*lowers the limbo stick*
bleh...I just have too much time on my hands to worry. Damn me and my womantastically worrying ways!

The moral of the story is that...well...I dunno...moral schmoral. I let the Animaniac's and their turning wheel decide mine ;)

One of those 'never'(s) I used to have...was that I'd never have *this*...

But I do <3

*<\worry>*

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

XY

Today I realized that I like to play with boys, and sleep with men...

However, I only use the plural versions of those nouns to appease the grammar police :P

So I guess what I really realized, is that all that & MORE, exists...coexists actually...right under my roof!!!

I'm wearing his sweater as we speak ;)

UNF <3

Note to Self: Get more photographic evidence of his handsomeness to disprove potential disbelievers *. *(...of your awesomeness :P x0x0x )