Happy Halloween!!!

Yes.. Happy Halloween from moi et Bad Monsieur Josh ^_^
I hope you get lots of candy and have lots of fun!!!

Daring Bakers October Challenge in memory of Sherry “Sher” Cermak

This month's challenge has a little bit of sadness attached to it... we lost a Daring Baker... but wherever you are Sher, thank you so much for leaving us with this amazing challenge and thank you Rosa for making everything possible, this has been an amazing challenge!!

By now... you are probably asking yourself well.. what is this challenge you keep talking about?!!... WELL... BAKE YOUR PIZZA LIKE A REAL PIZZAIOLO.. and I did like a real pizzaiolo!!!

The dough is not hard at all to make, you can visit Rosa's Yummy Yums for the recipe... you start it one day ahead and then you get this amazing wonderfully malleable dough, I had no trouble with it whatsoever it was just delightful to work with ( I did make a little adjustment though, I traded one cup of all purpose flour for 1 cup of whole wheat flour).

When the time came to stretch the pizza... I was a little bit nervous but got the hang of it pretty quickly and had a lot of fun with it ^_^ ... although I might have ended with a lot of flour over me




One pizza was a bruschettta pizza with pesto as a base, tomatoes, red onions, fresh basil, oregano, feta cheese and mozzarella and the second one was pesto base, prosciutto, red onion, tomatoes, feta, fontina and mozzarella cheese.. they were both incredibly gooood!!!






Oh once again... belonging to the Daring Bakers pays off.. looove making my own pizza like a real pizzaiolo... maybe I missed my calling have you? you can visit all the other Daring Bakers and find out what they did

Weekend in Toronto/Midland

On Wednesday of last week, Bad Monsieur Josh and I took a bus and arrived in Toronto and after an extremely crowded subway ride

(I wish our subway ride would have been this pleasant)

we arrived to our friend Shane's... we had homemade pizza that night.. it was AMAZING!!!
Next Morning we went out for some really yummy breakfast at a place called eggstasy and did a little bit of shopping, we visited 2 amazing comic book shops

(hiiii Shane!!!! )

(sooo much food I couldn't finish it.. but it was yummy ^_^ )

(scariest looking place.. but suuuch a good comic book shop)

Thursday night we headed to Midland and on Friday we went out for a nice walk to downtown and the lovely park... everything looks so pretty in the fall



(yes.. EVERYTHING looks prettry in the fall)

(hiii there GEESE)


Saturday we had delayed Thanksgiving and Sunday we had to head back to Ottawa.. however I was extremely please with our nice little weekend vacation ^_^

Birthday Week

I had an amazing birthday week, with nice little presents from my darling Bad Monsieur Josh everyday during that week and I ended up celebrating with 2 wonderful cakes!!! (thanks Sarah)



I received some amazing gifts too ^_^
extremely excited about this one... looove Jamie



mmmm wine.. and int that mysterious looking bag there is a wonderful Riesling



Yay!!!! funky cookie cutters, everyone needs some of those



oh I love Birthday Week!!! and sparklers too ^_^

Let the celebration begin!!

For a couple of years now I've been planning my 25th birthday party..



I don't think it will turn out as fabulous as I had planned and expected, it won't have a Marie Antoinette's theme... there won't be at least 3 cakes and champagne drinking until dawn .. but I might do that for my 30th birthday

..this year I've decided to extend my birthday celebration over a week!!! and make fabulous with a coconut cake ... oh this is going to be an exciting week ^_^

sick......

Yes.. I am SICK.. I have cold >_<

Bad Monsieur Josh got sick on Friday and I took care of him during the weekend and I thought I had dodge the bullet that I would not get sick.. but NOOOO yesterday I woke up and my throat was all scratchy and my head wanted to explode and I felt sooo weak so I am SICK.

I've been trying to drink lots of liquids and sleep a lot and had some chicken noodle soup and garlic bread.. however if you have any other remedies that you would like to throw my way pleeease feel free because I don't want to be sick anymore /cough

I feel like a little twig and at any moment I am going to break, I hate being sick and all vulnerable and I despise it when my throat hurts and I can't even swallow... that's the worse, however having time to cuddle and sleep is good... bah I need to go get myself some chamomile tea, I hope you are all HEALTHY and HAPPY!