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Loving Quick and Easy Ways to Relax

March 23, 2010

All this talk about To-Do lists and balance has made me realize, sometimes a girl just needs to take a step back and relax – even when there’s no time to do so. So when trying to come up with a quick and easy topic, I thought quick and easy ways to relax was completely [...]

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Loving Food: Chocolate

March 12, 2010

I love chocolate! I especially love dark chocolate, I love the taste, the smell, the texture and I love the way dark chocolate just seems to go so perfectly with a glass of red wine. Inspired by the pictures below, I set out on a fact finding mission to feel better about chocolate consumption. I’ve [...]

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Loving Wine: A Review of Tsantali, Rapsani Reserve 2004

February 24, 2010

Winery: Tsantali Estate Region: Rapsani, Greece Sugar Content: XD – Extra Dry Price: $ 18.95 CDN Description: The wine coinsurers say that Tsantali Rapsani Reserve 2004 is a generous, well rounded, fairly mature tasting and easy drinking sort of wine. It is also described as, quite tasty and food friendly, with a good core of [...]

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From my cellar: The confession of a wine enthusiast.

January 23, 2010

So I’ve found a new wine I love, and I just had to share it. I’m continually looking for new brands of wine.  I always check out the staff picks at my local LCBO (liquor store), this one was verbally recommended to me by the cashier. A woman had just purchased 6 bottles because she [...]

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Cooking for one, or lack thereof.

January 20, 2010

Hubby is away tonight on a business trip. This happens each time he goes away, I resort to snacking… I love to cook, but only for loved ones. If he’s not here it just doesn’t seem of value to dirty all those dishes. I know I’m worth the effort, but I just don’t have the [...]

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Quick and Easy Gourmet Italian Meal on a Regular Tuesday Night

January 13, 2010

I love cooking huge batches of things, dividing it and freezing it for another day. I made a homemade spaghetti sauce with meatballs a few weekends ago, and did just that with the leftover sauce. I’m coming down with a cold and not exactly feeling up to cooking a gourmet meal. Tuesday night felt like [...]

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