Good ol' Toronto (more iPhone pics)

This past week, we went to Toronto for a Leafs game, and a little bit of shopping. I love going to the city, and I don't think I'd ever get tired of walking the streets, taking pictures of just about everything. We didn't really have much time on this trip, so my good camera stayed in the hotel room (very rare).

I did take a few seconds to get some shots on the walk from the restaurant to the ACC, here they are.

I've been using the 'camera bag' app on the iphone to edit these shots, and the ones in my last post. It gives a few options for filters to apply to the photo, but there's no control at all over brightness, contrast, colour etc... So it's not the greatest. If anyone has a good photo editing app for iPhone, let me know what it is!








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Feelin' FLABULOUS!

This year, we haven't exactly taken very good care of ourselves and lately, I've been feeling more gross and flabby as the days go by. You could assume that all the food I take pictures of (then eat) has something to do with it, but that stuff is in small doses, and mostly pretty healthy.

The big issue Is what goes down the hatch when I don't have a camera attached to my face. Looking through the pictures I've taken with my phone, I came across a few of the culprits. Not good.

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Time to plan a party!

It's time for us to start planning for Lily's second birthday party! I'm not sure what makes me feel older, the fact that our baby (our very last baby) is not a baby anymore, or the fact that our oldest is 9!  It doesn't really sink in that I've been a dad for nearly a decade already.  Why is it that after so many years, I still don't have this gig figured out! I don't know that anyone ever does.

Anyway, right now, what we need to figure out is exactly what we'll make for Lily's cake (I'll post pics of that when it's done, in the meantime you can see other cakes we've done here), and what food we'll have at the party.  To get our butts in gear, and keep the 'party food' dilemma fresh in our minds, I'm posting a few snacks we had at Tristan's last birthday get together. Spinach, artichokes, garlic... all the staples of stinky but delicious treats!

You'll love my nuts!

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Soup's On!

Well, we've had a few soupy days,  and of course if I'm eating it, you're seeing it. So one is an Italian wedding soup, with macaroni instead of the usual little ball noodles (I don't know what those are called), and the other is pretty much a whole garden in a bowl. Have a peak...

I could eat soup anytime, and I can't remember ever having a bowl I didn't like.  One of my favorites is a soup my Memere used to make. There really wasn't much to it, and it could be considered quite boring, but even thinking about the smell and taste of that soup reminds me so much of my childhood. Maybe that's why I like it as much as I do. Here's the recipe for the soup, give it a try if you get bored sometime, it's a pretty easy one to make. You'll be missing the very important ingredient of childhood memories, but you might still enjoy it.

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- Boil a big pot of water
- Add 2 onions, 2 sticks of celery, and 1 small soup bone (about the size of a hardball).
- Boil for one hour.
- Remove bone, onions and celery. Squeeze the onions and celery on the side of the pot on the way out to get all the flavor out of them.

- Add approximately:
   3/4 cup of alphabet pasta
   1/2 cup of white rice
   Handful or so of long macaroni noodles

- Boil 'till noodles are ready and rice starts opening/splitting.
- Add a big can of tomato juice.
- Leave it on the heat until it comes to a boil again, and then it's done.
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