School Has Started!!

Yay - I put their smiling faces on the bus at 7:40 in the morning and they go off to a fulfilling day of learning!! So I'm finally getting the chance to update this blog of mine.

First of all, we had a great time in Vancouver. We did A LOT of eating, and there was tons to choose from. Lots of Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Crepe restaurants and coffee.

We had lunch one date at Hons Wun Tun House which was really good, and lunch another day at a Crepe Cafe, and I had a delicious Spinach and Feta Crepe. The kids had sugar and butter crepes and thought they were great!

As well as eating we did some sightseeing, we went to Capilano Suspension Bridge,and walked around Stanley Park, and even went swimming at the public pool there, although it was way to cold for me. It was only 76 outside with a brisk breeze and the water was FREEZING, but the kids went in.





And in Seattle on the way home we had dinner at Ivar's Acres of Clams. The service was great and so was the food, although the weather and the traffic are totally miserable in Seattle.

Nitrate Free Pizza

Now that I'm rid of my sickness, I took my daughter out last night for pizza (my son was at a birthday party), and we went to Fire Works Wood Fired Pizza. I thought it was delicious.

We had a 14" pizza, half Six Cheese and Herbs (Mozzarella, Provolone, Asiago, Parmesan,Fontina, Gruyere, Organic Tomato Sauce) and half Quattro Carni (Nitrate Free Pepperoni, Salami, All Beef Meatballs, Nitrate Free Italian Sausage, Organic Tomato Sauce and Cheese). I bought the meat half home for my husband, and he also declared it great. Fire Works try and use as much food as they can from local growers, which I like and I also like the nitrate free meats.

It wasn't quite as good as the Flatbread Company in Portland, Maine, where all the food is organic and free range and nitrate free, but it was still very good.

I really prefer to go to the one off restaurants around here, not the big chains, but sometimes they are really hard to avoid, because where we live the chains are EVERYWHERE.

Culinary Slump

I haven't really made anything worth noting for about a week. I did menu plan and wrote it all down and bought the stuff, but didn't end up making anything on my list. We had a lobster tail and crab legs on New Years Eve, and then the rest of the crab leg in rolls the next night, then we had some vietnamese, last night was baked veggies and chicken and tonight is left overs. So very exciting.

However, I did have a fantastic lunch experience today. I met my husband and we went to Five Guys and had burgers. They were excellent! Fresh, simple and yummy. I had a Little Bacon Cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato and onion. The fries aren't fantastic, but that didn't stop me eating them!!

The burger was great - but still not as good as an Aussie Hamburger from a milk bar - if that even still exists!

Photo from www.sptimes.com/2007/09/19/images/tb-five.jpg