In the Pink

Good evening/early morning :) As you might have noticed, I've changed the design/layout a little/lot. I have no particular reasoning, just that I feel like we all look a little better surrounded by pink :) There are limits, however, to what I can do with blogger templates and mediocre html skills, so thank you for your patience while I work on improving this blog.

Anyhow, I've got some other writing to be doing right now so I'll keep this entry short. I just wanted to post some pictures I took of these really cute poppies which popped up (heh) unexpectedly in my garden this summer. Incidentally, they happen to be pink so I thought they'd fit in nicely with the new layout :)

Right now I have a mess of wildflowers growing in and amongst various vegetables in my garden, but I think the pink poppies have got to be my favourites. -A totally unexpected delight. You see, in February I started on a very ambitious project to grow all of the annuals this year from seed using my aerogarden as a growlight...

Eat Pray Love Sophia Loren

Sophia in Boccaccio '70

I actually don't think this post requires anything more than a picture of Sophia Loren in all her glorious womanly beauty, taken from Boccaccio '70. :)

Ok ok maybe one more...

Am thinking the backdrops in this film should get the designsponge "living in" treatment. Such beautiful colours.

....but only because my arm was twisted.

Great movie :)

Hope everyone's summer is going well :) I've got a raspberry curd recipe (including a recipe for rasperry curd chocolate tartlets) coming in soon. Once I edit the pictures that is. A great way to use up those end-of-season berries!

Stay tuned :)

-GT

Zucchini Pancakes with Lemon Basil Aioli

As promised :) Please excuse crappy photo quality-I had my camera set to the lowest possible resolution.

This recipe was inspired by the fabulous Cannelle et Vanille, but I added a few of my own tweaks here and there. Make sure to use zucchini which are no more than 4" long because baby zuchs are the most flavourful. I used a gigantic pattypan squash that I picked up at the Dufferin Park farmer's market however, so feel free to experiment with the most flavourful gourds you can get your paws on.

By the way a quick word on the photo: I had a much better photo of all of my ingredients, but it didn't include a certain kitty pretending like he's totally not invading the shot. Nice try, Pumpkin, but I'm on to you.

Bits and Baubles: Rings

Not mine. Although I wish the fab emeralds were...

There are times when I am knee-deep in work that I just want to abandon my desk and go shopping. In fact, the more tedious the work is, the more I yearn for a little (or a lot) of glamour to take the edge off of the tedium

Needless to say, while I continue to wade through a particularly gruesome paper, I thought I'd take a break and share some of the goodies I've compiled over the last little while for just such an occasion. If you've got work you'd rather avoid for a few minutes, take a little break and come dream with me :)