chicken noodle soup for this cold.

since i have a bit of a theme going here with the food in bowls, i might as well continue with this delicious chicken noodle soup i made last night to heal my head cold. this was also the first time i've made noodles, so it was pretty exciting. the night before i had made some pork dumplings, and i had some dough for them left over. perfect. pretty good for the first try! even though it's spring time and it's time to open the windows, look to the horizon, look up, look down, i am still looking at closeness, the particulars. these simple perfect moments in amidst the chaos of the out of home life are fascinating me. it brings some calm and some focus to the day.

dinner in a bowl.

my solo week night dinners usually involve greens of some kind combined with various other delights in the beautiful gailan bowl i received for christmas...

everything tastes better when it's in this vessel.

in a calamity jane moment last week, however, i hit the measuring cup against it in the sink, and chip when the pottery, and down the drain the piece fell.

i guess this is what happens when beautiful objects are used in every day life.

here are a couple of meals i've enjoyed in the past week.

notice one before the chip incident, one after.

10 hours in Seattle.

a day trip south of the border with my dearests S & D.

highlights include:

• visiting the public library- especially the red floor & the low doors in the bathroom stalls

• experiencing total vertigo on the top floor of the library
• wine and snacks @ le pichet
• admiring the brick buildings
• getting overwhelmed in outlet malls
• just walkin' around the city & soaking it all up.

gastronomic moments.

in the past couple of weeks there have been some delightful meals... nothing like the weather getting warmer to jump start a little culinary creativity.

baking bread last week and suddenly the loaf gave birth to a bun! big bags of flour from the mill in chilliwack await my baking creations... then there are the colours of a fish taco night in the evening light. and mother's day celebrated with the arrival of spot prawns!

truly delightful!!!

two weeks since the turn of the year.

2009 ended and 2010 began on an island on the west coast. hornby island.

a's little cabin. perched on a bluff above the stormy winter seas.

friends gathered.

we danced the new year into existence. then we danced some more. we also ate soup. really good stuff. there was also a swim in the cold waters of january 01, 2010.

what a glorious excursion.

project: give thanks

a delightful and delicious feast with good friends on the weekend of giving thanks. everything went off without a hitch, turkey sitting proud for all to see.

a beautiful banner made by the wonderful sarah van s. and friends together again to nosh and laugh and drink and play! what a night!

the night concluded with a glow stick dance party,

music pumping, bellies full, but busting a move nonetheless. absolutely thank-full for all this bounty, all this love, and all these shining people...