One really really cold night in January, we went out by the St-Lawrence, and had some fun with lights :)

MP, who usually lives in Adelaide, came up to the country side to see me this week-end. We had quite de busy week-end.

Samedi, on a fait les sous-sols d'églises pour des trouvailles anciennes, also called "crap". And we found some great crap!
Ensuite, on est allé manger une poutine et une queue de castor dans le vieux-Québec.

Faut bien qu'elle sorte la pauvre :)
Et après avoir fait quelques autres petits stops, on est retourné à la maison pour travailler sur la fameuse chaise.



Pour enfin se faire une super quiche pour souper! C'est une recette de Smitten Kitchen, caramelized onion and cauliflower quiche.

Dimanche, on a pris plein de photos pour le nouveau site de MP, you can see her work on Etsy. She makes really great stuff.

And then we attacked the chair again.



We didn't finish the chair, but it's pretty well started. She comes back this summer, and hopefully we can finish it. :)
We topped off the week-end with a SUPER dinner at l'Aviatic Club while waiting for her bus home.

Thanks for a great week-end MP!

Not to jinks it or anything, but spring is almost here, even in the cold white north...

I got these nice flowers from a friend last night, but actually there were for Kitty.

I had quite a bit of time to explore the interwebs this week, as dale is in Montreal for Lipsynch.
So, like I do best, I found recipes all over the net...
Does anyone watch "How I met your mother"? Well if you do, you'll get the following reference. I'm the "food guy" at work.
And so today, was yet another birthday. And yesterday I took it upon myself to make Whoopie pies. I actually didn't make the actual "sandwich" but left the individual cookies on the cookie sheet and added a good lump of frosting on top. Easier to carry that way.
Talking about carrying cakes, I need me one of these!

I also found this Caramel Cupcake recipe, that I must definitely try some day.

And one salty recipe for the road, Cheddar Cheese Puffs... don't they look great? I think I'll wait for dale to come home to try this one.

On another note, I've started the first two lessons of Learning Persian. I found this website and it looks promising. I can already find letters in a text and remember the pronunciation, not bad for two lessons!

To finish off, here is a picture of one of my favorite Flickr contacts.

R002-016 by Skullkid

My dogs are spoiled rotten.

Peanut Butter doggy treats:
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 cup milk
1 cup peanut butter
Mix, bake 20 minutes at 375F.

They love them.

Say hello to my new little friend.


A half frame fully automatic, with working selenium meter, Olympus PEN EE.

I'm trying a new thing, linking to stuff I tried or saw and enjoyed all over the net. I hope you discover new things too.

Cooking:
I tried three recipes from the Pioneer Woman:
- The Bread, I adapted it freely to add some banana and chocolate
- The Drip Beef, which was great for SuperBowl sunday, and quite delicious
- The Salsa, made that one last weekend, great with dale's tortilla de patatas.

For people in Quebec city, dale got me the most perfect cupcakes from MlleCupcake, no website yet, but you can follow her on twitter.

Monday night we also made a recipe called aloo parantha from a weird blog called the Waffleizer, it talks all about cooking in a waffle maker. I substituted the potato mix for cheese and coconut. The little cilantro sauce is delicious!

I'm also looking for THE apron, the one that my (eventual) kids will remember.
I found some great ones over at Ice Milk Aprons but I think they're a bit expensive.
I also found some at Jesse Steele, but can't seem to find the yellow polka dot one... and get it delivered to Canada. Stupid delivery system!

Photography:
As you guys might remember I sold my Nikon D70s a couple weeks back. And now, I'm watching very carefully what Olympus and Panasonic will come out with in the next weeks/months. I'm interested in this new micro four third technology, smaller and lighter than the big DSLR that Canon and Nikon keep making... we'll see.

Dale has the Lumix GF1 and loving it. I'm looking at something on the line of the Lumix G1, but the GH1 is way better, so I was thinking that one, but the price! the price! But good news the prices are coming down for the GH1 and the G1 has been discontinued, which means new announcements! Can't wait!

Pour changer de sujet, je m'intéresse aussi beaucoup aux anciennes caméras, et je viens de m'acheter une Olympus PEN EE, une "half-frame" camera. Can't wait to receive it in the mail.
I've also been reading a lot on Twin Lense Reflex camera. I've got my eye out for an old Minolta Autocord and a Flexaret VII.
If you want to read a great history of the TLR, visit the Holga blog.
Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Very interesting.

That's it for this week. Hopefully more stuff to share next week.

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