Long-overdue update: We've just been eating

It's been forever since our last post. The past couple months just flew by. 

What have we been up to? Judging by what's on our camera, it looks like we've just been cooking and eating. 

In real life, we've also been working, but Naomi can't take pictures of her clients, and Colin can't take pictures of his students. We're taking a trip to Queensland this month, so there will be more exciting pictures soon. But in the meantime...

Baking

Bagels:

This was Colin's second attempt. Not bad, but nobody would confuse them with Terrace Bagels.

Encouraged by the modest bagel success, Colin has turned to challah. Attempt #1 was alright, but a bit, how do you say...

...overcooked.

Attempt #2 went better, which was good, since Colin doubled-down:

Food from outside

Here's the neighbour's cat eating some grass:

Two supermarkets, Cole's and Woolworth's are in constant competition. For the most part, we don't care. Except when it comes to value packs of high-fibre breakfast cereal:

A general principle of our eating is that anything healthy must be compensated for. Courtesy of Jenn and Justin:

Special occasions


After eating the above cookies as part of a refined-sugar rampage, we had a few nights of salads. Naomi put this one together. Roast beetroot (what Americans just call beets) with a parsley-garlic dressing over roast cauliflower, broccoli and carrots on a bed of spinach:

The healthy theme continued (in weakened form) into Naomi's birthday. Colin baked some flatbread, which we layered with vegetarian meats, cheeses, and various veggies.

 

Sticking to our principles, though, we made sure to balance out the sandwiches with a cake that contained our yearly allowance of cholesterol and carbs. It's a chocolate stout cake with coffee cream-cheese frosting, and extra chocolate drizzled over Hungarian cherries on top.