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Category Archives: Food
Mine!
Not to scale, mine is much bigger. A few days ago, I finally paid off my student loan. What better way to celebrate than to go kill a few of those brain cells that are finally totally mine. In other … Continue reading
The Loot
From left to right: Edradour matured in very old Tokaji cask, Ardbeg Fèis Ìle, Campbeltown Longrow and Caol Ila Moch. Click to embiggify These are the bottles I brought back from Scotland. At first I thought I was going to … Continue reading
Huge
If you follow me on the twitter, the facebook, the flickr and/or the foursquare, you already know that I spent the week end in Montreal. The main purpose of this visit was to go eat at the famous Le Garde-Manger, … Continue reading
Cubans are awesome at playing darts
So the other day I was walking around on campus after two of my friends competed in a speed-walk race. It was pretty funny, because one of the guys was so confident – he is the school champion – but I managed … Continue reading
Dilemma
Every year it’s the same story. Today is St-Patrick’s day. Today is also my mom’s Birthday. She turns one year older than last year. It’s always a struggle to post something either for my mom, or for my love of Guinness. Happy … Continue reading
Butchered
When it comes to food, I’m pretty much a quality over quantity guy. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy large quantities of good quality food on occasion. But if given a choice between a five pound poutine from Smoke’s Poutinerie and … Continue reading
Wine Oh!
It’s no secret I love wine. I have a sommelier friend who organizes tastings at his place, and yesterday was the “Top 100 Wine Spectator 2009” tasting. We only tasted wines that made the 2009 list. The idea was to try … Continue reading
Livin’ on the Edge
When LovelyWife came home from work yesterday, she had bought eggs. She put them in the fridge. Click to embiggify… If you can’t see the eggs. I’m telling you it’s a disease. Look at those eggs RIGHT ON THE EDGE … Continue reading
The OCG with OCD
You know how it starts with “There’s a lot of crumbs in this toaster” and ends with taking the whole kitchen back to studs? Yeah, that. I’m the Original Canadian Gangster with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Today I cleaned the fridge. … Continue reading
Pumpkin
I couldn’t stop laughing in the grocery store. There I was looking for some pumpkin purée… Do you see it? Look closer… Please tell me I’m not the only one finding this really funny and really hard to do.
Stitches begone!
This morning was my one week follow-up to my gum graft. They took out the stitches and the biological glue that was left. Once again, the whole thing was pretty much painless and done in ten minutes without any anesthesia. The dentist … Continue reading
One bullet short of a full gun (30)
Salad: LovelyWife is away this week on a business trip. As part of the recruitment aspect of her job, she gets to visit exotic locales like Montréal, Sainte-Foy and Sherbrooke. How exciting! This of course means that I get to … Continue reading
Breakfast of Champions
It’s going to be a long day. BTW, this totally counts as “blogging”.
Diptych – Open
Clicking here takes you to the Diptych Set on Flickr – where you can see the rejected pictures! The theme of the project is Diptych and the idea is that every week Finn and Ren will each take a picture based on a … Continue reading
Mikey Tuesday: Surreal
Sometimes I question my ability to blog. I can spend hours thinking about a post, how I’ll find the perfect balance between funny, ironic and plain dumb to craft a masterpiece of self-reflexion. I can write and rewrite a draft … Continue reading
