Uploaded pictures

So I took the plunge and bought a Flickr Pro account after a few years of only using the free account provided. My username is the Tedster and has a stick figure as a profile pic. Add me as a contact so that I can select you as a family member or tell me your username so that I can to add you to see the christmas pictures. They are all private so only who I select as my and Cass' family can see them. If there are pictures people would rather not have online send me an e-mail and I will remove it. If there are pictures you do like I have larger original copies on my hard drive I can send you.

I had a great christmas with everyone and I think I caught some nice smiles over the Holidays.

Love Theo

P.S.

There is a collection of all the christmas pictures categorized into sets. I will probably create a blog post with some pictures here to highlight holiday fun.

Christmas and New Years

Christmas came and went and took New Years Eve with it. The holidays seem to have gone by fast and sifting through 400 pictures to pic ones to edit and post might take a little more time to accomplish then motivation I can muster this weekend, but we'll see what I can do. Thank you to everyone for the great holidays.

To tide you over until I get more pictures posted I will give you a recipe for a soup I created this evening. It was enormously delicious.

Pureed Red Lentil soup with a fruit kicker

- 1/4 cup or lump of butter
- a small onion
- a peeled potato
- a peeled carrot or two
- a peeled parsnip or two
- a peeled apple
- a peeled pear
- 1/2 cup red lentils
- 1/2 cup of soy milk
- 1 1/2 cups of water (I might have used 2 1/2 cups actually)
- a heaping teaspoon of curry powder
- 1/2 a teaspoon of cumin
- a teaspoon of paprika

In a medium pot on medium heat melt the butter and add onions and all other fruit and vegetables cut into cubes. Let cook until onions are translucent. Add salt and pepper to taste if desired. Add 1/2 cup of rinsed red lentils. Add soy milk and water and spices. Stir and let simmer till everything is soft about 25 min. Once everything is soft blend soup until it looks like a milkshake. Add more liquid if a thinner soup is desired. I liked the consistency I got and cooked the soup with the lid on most of the time. This probably makes enough for 4 servings.

Many things could be substituted in this recipe like the soy milk with milk and the butter with olive oil and water with stock but this is what we had and it was really good. I will be posting again soon.

Love T

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Cassandra and I went shopping this weekend for a tree to decorate. Our place was looking a little empty and Cassandra was getting pretty antsy with a couple bins of decorations and nothing to put them on. We first went to Kent a hardware store like Home Depot here, they were sold out of fake 4ft trees and only had 3 ft ones left. Dominion's had 4ft pre lit trees though that fit the bill perfectly.

Fluff the branches

Hang the snowballs

Add the stars to the top of the tree.

Make sure they are in the right spots.

Voila, Merry Christmas!!

What Have I Missed

The delicious lasagna that I made with Cassandra's guidance.

This is the one day it snowed quite a bit.

The stairs filled with snow on November 31st. 

The next morning, on December 1st, we woke up and there was no snow.

Our tacky Christmas sweaters. We wore these to one potluck already and I will be wearing mine to work tomorrow. We'll make sure to bring them to Winnipeg for an ugly Christmas sweater party over there.

Hobbies

In the last few minutes of my break I thought I would spread the word that I'm looking for hobbies to do when I get home from work. Cassandra enjoys running a lot more than I do and going to Pilates at lunch, drawing and such and I'm looking for stuff to do other than homework when I get home. Do any of you have suggestions? Preferrably I would like something to do at home instead of else where but that may be too limiting, photography has crossed my mind but I need a project to work on.
If you have any ideas feel free to leave a comment or shoot me an e-mail.

- T

Catch-Up

Hello,
Yes it has been a while and a combination of homework and just being tired after a long day at work leads to missing a few weeks of posting. Here is some of the latest things we have been up to in Newfoundland.

It seems that I have just been capturing Cassandra venture through various recipes and crafts.

Someone, Deb, sent us a package without a senders name. It contained some tasty spices. One of which was for focaccia bread. Cassandra went to work and mad some delicious stuff that went great with pasta and tomato sauce.

Cassandra made some Halloween chocolate cake for the Hallow's Eve party we went too. No black or orange food coloring was around to be bought on the day before Halloween.

Sorry no pictures of costumes were taken : (

We hosted the next weeks get together though.

This got us into picture framing and hanging action.

Liz those photo clips are getting some use.

We (I mean Cassandra, I did kneed and stretch out the dough though) also made some delicious Pizzas for the potluck at our place. Everyone makes such good food. Hope everyone is doing well at home.

T

A Night out and Sushi for Lunch

 Cass and I got tickets from my Dad to go see this play at the newly renovated LSPU hall downtown. It was pretty good, about a professor trying to cope with his past by ignoring it and then having it catch up with him and forcing him to make amends or at least confront what happened.

I got stressed out thinking we were going to be late because I wanted to be there half an hour early. Turned out we had plenty of time getting their 10 min before curtain.

The next day I wrote my english Essay on the imagery in Bessie Head's short story "American Woman" for English. Since that is not exciting enough though Cass and I had to try and make sushi. We wanted to make summer rolls but we couldn't find any rice paper. Dominion had to be sold out so we got Nori from the Bulk Barn.

My brother got us a sushi set when we were in Toronto. The big dishes are for soy sauce and the little ones for wasabi (which we decided to pass on). Watching a few demos on youtube I toasted the Nori or dried seaweed paper in a frying pan and made short grain 'Sushi' rice.  We cut up some vegetables (avacado, bean sprouts, cucumber, carrots) and I rolled it all together.

Cassandra then cut the rolls into fairly small bite size pieces. We made 3 rolls and got 26 pieces, some a little skinny but we wanted testers.

They tasted pretty good, especially with soy sauce. I think they were missing something though, not sure what. We had a few left overs so I'll take 'em for lunch tomorrow.

T