Nepalese Chicken
Nepal is the one other place that my dad wanted to go and never got to. It is definitely one of the places to visit on my bucket list.
Nepal is officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is a country is South Asia and the world’s youngest republic. It is ordered to the north by the People’s Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India. Kathmandu is the nation’s capital and the country’s largest metropolitan city. Read more
My Tea Escape
It’s no secret, I love tea! I would be a bonafide TEA NUT if my place (an my funds) weren’t so small. But whenever I get a chance to I like to look up new tea reviews and articles and try new, or old favourite, types of teas. Most of my loose tea comes from on-line or catalogue orders but I do venture out once in a while to one of the only 3 places in this city that have loose tea in bulk. When I lived in Vancouver I had my favourite teas from different stores so now I sometimes have my sisters send me some or I pick some up when I visit. I can never have too much tea! So when I found out about a company that has tea parties (think Tupperware parties) I jumped at the oportunity. I quickly had my own tea party to start and am now waiting for my starter kit, I became a consultant for Steeped Loose Tea and Accesories. I’m very excited to start on this venture and to share my love of tea with others in my area (and around the world of course!), I will try to write about any interesting tea parties that I attend, especially if these parties include global tea traditions or tea treat recipes. 
I have found that tea lovers all have their favourite tea cup, tea pot and other tea accesories that they use and are quick to give their opinions on so I also have a small collection of tea accesories that have moved around with me for years. I’m always interested in how different cultures drink their tea, or what types of tea they drink. Read more
The World in Your Kitchen Calendar
I think my favourite part about ringing in a new year is choosing my new calendar. No, I don’t think, I know! Yes, there’s always the sense of “possibility” that comes with the start of new year, but for me the best way to see those possibilites is with a new calendar. I used to go a little overboard: 2 for home, 2 for work and sometimes 2 daytimers. Of course I really didn’t use them all but it was nice to look at the pictures every month. 
Now I look around for the ones that really catch my eye. This year I played it smart, I scoped out my choices before Christmas and went on Boxing day (December 26) to buy them at 50% off. So I was able to get 2 calendars for the price of one! Last year I tried going te 2nd week of January, when they were at 75% off, but all the good choices were gone. 
So… I did good this time around. I got a nice Tea calendar from Brush Fire for work and found THE BEST EVER calendar for home… it’s called “The World in Your Kitchen”.
It’s like someone read my mind! The calendar is published by New Internationalist Publications, it features a beautiful full colour illustration of a different country each month AND, the best part, a vegetarian recipe from that country.
Isn’t it pretty? The illustrator is Alana McCarthy and every single picture represents the colours and the “essence” of the country she’s depicting. I can almost feel the country from he illustration, she does and amazing job at bringing you into the culture. I absolutely adore it! AND it gives me another international recipe to try each month Yay! 
So, now I know that this year will definitely bring deliciousness, that’s one possibility that just became a reality!
A New Year, A New Decade
It’s now 2010! This past year felt like a short moment to me, and New Year’s Eve was like a blur. I usually get nostalgic on New Year’s, right after midnight hits. I think of times gone by and times yet to come and about all of the things I miss most. I was surprised that this year I didn’t feel like that at all, even though I didn’t have any family around me and I went out to a *gasp* bar to celebrate with friends. Maybe the reason why those nostalgic feelings didn’t come to me this year was because it didn’t really feel like New Year’s, or maybe it’s because I was too busy trying not to get pummeled to the ground by the drunk chick partying it up at the table next to us, but the point is that I felt “normal”. It’s a new year, and a start of a new decade people! And I feel optimistic. I don’t make resolutions anymore but I make life choices… I want to cook more and write more, I want to dance it up as much as I can and learn new dances, I want to meet new people, hopefully meet that special someone as well, I want to study yoga, maybe even teach it someday. In a nutshell… I want to LIVE! I don’t want to be stuck in the what ifs and the what-could-have-beens. I want to be alive, and that’s what I inted to do. Read more
