Since I've Been Gone...

Oh, yes, I used to have a blog...

I started my "new job" over a year ago now.
Funny that it still feels new, but I've finally settled in enough to start doing creative things again...

Lately I've been doing the photoblogging thing and have become quite addicted to shutterchance.

I've enrolled in a fiction workshop and have snatches of narrative strolling through my head again.

It's a good feeling.

Taking some time to decide what to do with this space...

Fish and Chicklets

It seems that vegetarianism is going out of style these days, and I'm not the only former vegan turning to fish - Losing My Veginity.

Also new and interesting on The Tyee, the Chick Lit debate.

Rainy Sundays

After braving the rain to get more eggs and fresh bread from the bakery, we had scrambled eggs with green onions, spinach, and chèvre, and fresh bread with my grandmother's homemade raspberry jam (which is, sadly, almost gone).

Hot Saturdays

Yesterday was another hot Saturday in Montreal. After a long day of running around we were too hungry (and it was too hot) to make anything complicated and opted for simple quality. But it turned out quite tasty. Toni made an appetizer out of a baguette, chèvre chaud, pesto, and cherry tomatoes. I made spinach seminola pasta with spinach, broccoli, artichoke hearts, and black olives in tomato sauce.

Thursday Night Scallops

Another first in the Lesley kitchen: scallops. My dear friend Caro came over for the occasion, and I combined a few recipes to make pan-fried scallops (I used olive oil instead of butter and added a bit of ginger) topped with tangerine vanilla seafood sauce on brown rice (cooked with garlic, ginger, and tamari for flavour), and sauteed green beans (also with ginger and garlic).