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Slightly bizarre baked goods
I enjoy fishing. I do not enjoy eating fish. I do enjoy eating peanut butter cookies.
Therefore:
Salmon peanut butter cookie before baking:
Salmon-turned-clownfish peanut butter cookie after baking:
Hooked:
For fans of organic chemistry, this is what ATP cookies look like:
Tasty, tasty Guantanamo
On Wednesday I taught our cook how to make guacamole. Friday afternoon he made it for the second time, somewhat less successfully (he forgot the lemon, didn’t add enough garlic).
“Chris, j’ai fais guantanamo pour toi,” he told me. Yes, our cook now knows how to make “Guantanamo.” Côte d’Ivoire is excellent.
(He has also now learned how to make great garlic bread and fantastic fruit salad)
A few random photos from Vancouver, Ottawa, and Salt Spring Island
Here are a few random photos I felt like posting when I was in Canada, but which didn’t really merit posts…
Framed portrait:
I glued a 1-cent stamp from 1935 onto a parcel wrapped in blank 1960s sheet music paper to give a gift to a friend:
A tasty cracker manwich, with Oker in the background:
Denise’s crazy nails, which were done by a lady at Lady Orchid’s Rejuvenating Spa down on West Broadway a few doors west from Manitoba Street:
I made strawberries stuffed with chocolate mousse and added a peppermint leaf to each one:
And I also made peanut butter cup cookies. I didn’t make the peanut butter cups, though, they were in a package…
After the Vancouver Canucks won Game 5 of Round 3 of the Stanley Cup playoffs, sending them to their first Stanley Cup Final since 1994, a bunch of us went downtown to celebrate – we weren’t the only ones!
I had to go to Ottawa to get my visa for Côte d’Ivoire, and as I do on every visit to Ottawa, I took a quick walk around Parliament Hill:
While in Ottawa, I also visited the Canadian Museum of Nature, which has some really cool dinosaur fossils, including this triceratops skull:
Back in BC, my last weekend in Canada was spent with a bunch of friends on Salt Spring Island. The float plane is faster than the ferry:
The trip by ferry is really beautiful, winding between loads of little islands along the way:
On Saturday morning, we went to Ganges, the main town on Salt Spring Island, to have a look at the market. This busker, Mack Pinchbeck, was amaaazing!
Later on, we headed to a dock so people could take a dip in the water. Conrad the 4-legged, 4-armed wonderboy dove right in:
Posted in Canada, North America, Travel
Also tagged Canadian Museum of Nature, Ganges, Hockey, Ottawa, Salt Spring Island, Vancouver
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I can eat 5 year old soup too!
1 month later, I’m posting again… sorry for the delay, I promise to have several more posts in the next week or so for anyone who wants to catch up on my latest adventures!
In my last post, I had a photo of me eating raw bacon, both because it tastes good and because I like to test my stomach and make sure it’s still as strong as ever. Back when I was living in New Zealand I ate a whole bunch of expired food and put photos up here: http://photodiarist.com/2005/09/student-menu.html
Last month I was cleaning out one of the kitchen cupboards because it turned out that no one was using it, and all the stuff inside had been left long ago by past tenants. Among a dozen or so salt and pepper shakers, handful of ceramic Christmas decorations, shotglasses of various size and description, and huge box of toothpicks spilled all over the place in there, I found a package of soup mix. You know, the dry powder to which you just add boiling water!
Now, everything has an expiry date, and dry powder soup mix is no exception. Can you read the expiry date in this photo?
Yep, it says August 27, 2003 at 20:53. That means that, at the time of my first spoonful on March 3, 2008 at 21:56 the soup mix was 4 years, 6 months, 5 days, 1 hour, 3 minutes past its expiry date, according to TimeAndDate.com.
It was delicious, and there were no ill effects whatsoever. The moral of the story? If you don’t want your expired food, give it to me: the starving student who will actually eat it without complaining!
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