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June 13, 2010
Wendy piles goat cheese on omelette with bitter greens and prunes.
Dad: I didn't eat goat cheese for the first forty years of my life. Why do I have to start now?
Wendy stirs chicken and cauliflower in tomato puree with cinnamon and cumin.
Dad: The kitchen smells funny.
Wendy :(
Wendy dips garlic shrimp in mango puree, linguine in sun dried tomato pesto and bitter greens in orange ginger dressing.
Dad nods.
Dad: We should try pickled herring.
Wendy stacks pickled herring on cracker glazed with grapefruit marmalade.
Dad :)
wendy :)
June 13, 2010 // 16
Snapshot: Randomly alighting at the optimal streetcar stop for Hibiscus Cafe.
June 9, 2010 // 15
Snapshot: Drawing a transcendental curve with two tail-on shrimps.
June 5, 2010 // 14
Snapshot: Midnight Cinnabon @ Union Station.
June 3, 2010 // Thirteen
Snapshot: Constructing obstacle course for bathtub salmon.
Smiling @ Angular Momentum
May 12, 2010 // Eight
Snapshot: Realizing that the Fibonacci sequence begins with not one, but one pair, of bunnies.
Snapshot: Scooping mini watermelon.
Smiling @ i ? u
May 8, 2010 // Seven
Wistful Wilderness @ Hot Doc: The Island of Tiengemeten is getting a makeover. Originally cleared to serve as agricultural land, it is now being abandoned to the elements, left to revert back to wilderness. A profound portrait spanning fifteen years of transformation, loss and lament.
Snapshot: Brassica rapa chinensis + most accurate fortune cookies @ New Sky.
Snapshot: Designing Hamsterland, a playground for nihilistic existentialists @ All Things Tea.
Smiling @ flying objects
May 6, 2010 // Six
Snapshot: Ordering goat cheese @ Serra.
May 5, 2010 // Five
Snapshot: Salt flakes @ Green Beanery.
May 2, 2010 // Four
The Woman with the 5 Elephants @ Hot Doc: Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German. Geier’s survival through both Hitler’s and Stalin’s dictatorships echoes themes found in Dostoyevsky’s masterpieces. As Geier travels back to her birthplace in Ukraine, she visits her “stork well,” the symbolic source of her greatest pain and creativity, putting her past into poetry—the translation of which is her most essential, exact expression yet.
May 1, 2010 // Three
Snapshot: Stalking 'crickets'.
April 28, 2010 // Two
April 22, 2010 // One
Francesco Alberoni: The experience of ‘falling in love’ shares the essential traits of any collective movement, which is a well-known sociological category, yet at the same time it retains its own unmistakable nature. No one would think, for example, to confuse it with such other examples of collective movements as the Protestant Reformation, the student protest movement of the 1960s, the Feminist movement ...
Snapshot: "This is how the heart works" @ Urbana Coffee.
April 18, 2010
Friday, tapas with Denise @ Torito. Amazing tripe stew. Shrimp in port wine sauce is such a buzz. Denise had two glasses of wine and two glasses of port ;)
Saturday, veal sandwich and grocery shopping with June @ St Lawrence market. Picked up asparagus, mahi mahi and scallop for dinner. Grabbed fresh fig, dried fig, brie and crackers for next week's brunch.
Sunday, beach walk with Tanya, who is heading to Manila next Wednesday.
April 1, 2010
Tuesday, picked up new passport. Yay!
Thursday, start of 11 amazing days in Guatemala.
&purple foxglove, a surprise // 16
&vendy's future living room inspired by NYTimes
&secret in their eyes // 2
&easter 2010: volcan acatenango
