BBQing has begun!

For a wedding present my aunt and uncle and cousins from Alberta bought us a BBQ! Since our wedding was at the end of October and then we headed on our honeymoon we didn’t get to set it up, because BBQing in the winter really would not be fun. Last night we busted it out, built it and commenced BBQing season!

The living room looking messy with parts everywhere.. please ignore messy bookcase, Chase (our cat) enjoys pulling the books over.

We made a BBQ!

And the BBQ outside where it belongs. And me with a silly pose, there were 2 versions of this photo, I chose to use the silly one for your viewing pleasure.

We made burgers and they were really good! We also bought a fish cooker and vegetable cooker for the grill so we can cook in style.

Plus 2 bonus pictures.. Chase, my cute cat.

And my newly re-potted plant.. it was in a much smaller pot and i decided that it was outgrowing the pot so I bought a new pretty one. Well! The roots were so thick (it looked like worms) and winding all around in the pot, it sure was ready for a new pot. Now it can grow much better. Oh and I’m growing a tree, see it beside the newly re-potted plant.

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Feb

29

Adventures in Bacon Making

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Have we mentioned that we grew up on a hog farm? We have a great appreciation for all things porcine - especially food! Not a summer goes by where we don’t enjoy a few pork barbecues (we’re talking a whole pig turning on a spit - delish!). At Kate and Scott’s wedding we dined on - what else? Pork tenderloin. Now they are raising pigs on their own farm. My future father in law is a butcher - my fiance has learned a lot from him. Micaela’s boyfriend Kent is a chef at a great restaurant in Stratford, and Leah’s boy is in the restaurant/hospitality industry. I look forward to future delicious (and possibly - hopefully! - fattening) family get togethers! Lauren - how about finding us a bartender? Just make sure that he’s not a vegetarian…

photo credit: Lionoche
A few days ago I was ~~admiring~~ drooling over not martha’s Bacon Curls - wow! - and yesterday she shared her adventures in bacon CUP making! Um, wow again. Sisters - seeing as you will be throwing parties in my honor over the next year, I’d like to put in a request for something - ANYTHING - presented in bacon cups.

Speaking of pigs, have you seen the story about piglets raised by a tiger? If not, don’t worry, the story is bogus. The pictures are cute though - and because of those pictures (and the bogus story) Five Blondes has seen over 50,000 unique visitors via StumbleUpon since the post was stumbled on February 4 by Jason of Gorilla Sushi. JASON ROCKS. Consider yourself an honorary blonde! For those of you unfamiliar with SU, Jason wrote a great post on getting StumbleUpon traffic recently. If you’re a stumbler, you can find the Five Blondes here!

Jan

25

Cupcakes

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Mmmmm cupcakes. I love baking cupcakes, either from a box or from scratch they taste soo good. Scott doesn’t like cupcakes, this is sucky because then I eat them all. ALL OF THEM. Someday I will become very fat.

I enjoy bringing cupcakes to work because they are so tasty, I realized, after 2 days of bringing cupcakes to work for lunch, that I need a better container to transport the yummy cupcake. See what happens to my cupcake when the container is a BIT too small!

Poor poor little cupcake, the icing came right off! And it really does not look as pretty when I scrape the icing from the lid and smush it back onto the cupcake.

I think I need one of these “Cup-A-Cake Cupcake Container”: