When Kurt and I lived in Winnipeg and took salsa lessons, part of the advanced course was to learn a bit of rueda (wheel) salsa. Think of it as Latin square dancing: several couples form a circle and a caller is selected to shout out the different patterns to execute. It’s fast-paced and very exciting [...]
balsamic strawberries with whipped mascarpone cheese.
Whenever I feel like trying a new dessert with ingredients that are in season, I tend to visit La Tartine Gourmande’s blog or epicurious.com for inspiration. It’s also a little easier to type in “strawberries” and “mascarpone” in their search boxes than to scour our cookbooks one by one. Strawberries were on sale downstairs as [...]
trying to contact me?
Some of you have mentioned that you have emailed me using the address “on my website”. I’m guessing you mean info@karenclement.ca or info@karenhamilton.ca. These forward to my real email (well, they should…) but your attempts may have been blocked by my spam filter. Please re-send to my real email, which i don’t like posting as [...]
more sunday afternoon salsa.
Raf and I made it out to the free Sunday salsa at Robson Square this weekend, and this time I was armed with my trusty Canon S2. I’m in the middle of uploading the videos to youtube, so in the meantime, please enjoy the photos on Flickr. Below are some highlights. Raf decides to be [...]
wednesday salsa folks.
Raf, Bruce, and I went to visiting LA instructor Josie Neglia’s salsa workshop, hosted by Urban Beat Dance Co. Some interesting combo patterns later, the usual salsa mixer started up, and this time I had my camera handy. Besides the video clip of my salsa dance with Vinod, we stuck to say-cheese shots with the [...]
a bunch of new photos.
I’m too lazy to write full posts about each of these new photosets, so you’ll have to make do with this snapshot of new additions. Our official wedding photos from Curtis are now up, as well as the pics that Becky emailed. There are a few shots of Raf’s beagle Macie. The rest, of course, [...]
evaluating Buy the Bunch.
Quincy’s wedding is coming up soon and they are looking for a florist, so here is an evaluation of our florist, Buy the Bunch, plus pics of our florist’s arrangements. We loved the simplicity and elegance of the flowers by Buy the Bunch. We were also lucky the day my cousin and I visited Sam’s [...]
recent home-cooked jaunts.
In an effort to minimize cash flow incidents after the massive wedding and honeymoon expenditures, Kurt and I have been experimenting with our new kitchen gadgets. Here are some of our successes and not-quite-there-yet attempts. Yummy and super-easy peas with shallots and prosciutto: Homemade BBQ sauce with lots of rosemary-flavoured goodies: Light-as-air chocolate meringues: Peanut [...]
celebrating bruce’s birthday at guu.
Bruce would never tell you himself, but it was his birthday a few weeks ago, and to celebrate we went to Guu on Thurlow. All the lip-smacking food stuffs on Flickr. Non-food highlights below. Gutter-minded menu? Or gutter-minded Bruce? Click the photo to decide. My only successful attempt to capture flambé out of 50 shots:
celebrating june birthdays at reylar’s.
Finally got around to editing the footage of my family’s live-band escapade at Reylar’s Filipino Restaurant. We had the whole place to ourselves in order to stuff ourselves and jam it up without the neighbours complaining. Below are the highlights. For the full photoset, visit the photo album on Flickr. Video footage (larger view): Tita [...]