five good things on a friday
01. great food shared with great people
I spent the weekend indulging in amazing food while visiting one of my best friends in Oakville - Saturday's meal consisted of an incredibly filling and delectable turkey burger from a place called The Works; the toppings were goat cheese (can not stress how YUMMY it is), spinach, roasted red peppers and added sundried tomatoes with a side of sweet potato fries. Sunday's homemade brunch included leftover sweet potato fries, baked salmon, and quinoa - a word that I always pronounce wrong - mixed with salsa, peas, garlic powder, and pepper.
The meals were a perfect accompaniment to catching up, wondering about our lives, and strolling about town. Oh, and watching V/H/S, which I can only describe as ... horrifically strange.
Oh and I also made chocolate almond macaroon (cookies) that were found from Kym's blog and made from this recipe.
02. taking in your favourite scenery
Excuse the crazy close-up, but it just shows how happy the beach makes me. Or just being by the water in general. Especially when there's Haribo involved.
03. dancing (horribly) to zumba followed by yoga
No picture of this one since my dancing should not be photographed ;) But I had an awesome Monday run at the gym; Zumba has quickly become my favourite mode of cardio, since the instructor at my gym is so enthusiastic and doesn't mind making a fool of himself (and he has insane hips), making the whole workout a blast. And yoga was the perfect way to wind down and really see just how inflexible I am (must do more yoga).
04. mixed (online) tapes
When I was younger, I distinctly remember all the mixed tapes I would make from recording things on the radio and, when I became a little older, all the mixed CDs my sister and I would make, complete with customized Photoshopped covers of whichever artist was on the CD (mostly Britney Spears and Spice Girls, in my case). Just this past week I became acquainted with this site called 8tracks, where people make mixes of 8 tracks or more. I made my first one (here it is) for when I'm more in a mellow mood, and can't wait to make more. If you make mixes on here, please let me know :D
05. playgrounds
Although I don't go to playgrounds as often as I used to (remember that spinning wheel of death where everyone tried to hold on? where did that go?), my park recently did renovations and my boyfriend got stuck:
Good times. This weekend I'm planning on being a bit of a homebody by making plum cake and getting The Hunger Games when it comes out tomorrow, but hopefully do some more exploring outdoors, too.
what's a good thing (or five) from your week?
what are your plans for the weekend?
hope it's a great one! (:
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9 comments:
The Hunger Games <3
And wow, thank you for recommending 8tracks, gonna check out the site too.
We have a long weekend here because Monday and Tuesday are special holidays so I won't be required to go to the office 'til Wednesday. So awesome :D
those food pics look DELISH.
back when i was mixing tapes, we didn't have photoshop (couldn't afford it and torrents back then? what's that?!) so instead, we just photocopied the covers LOL
Ooh, that food looks purely decadent. And I LOVE playgrounds. My nephew is 3, so I always have an excuse to spend time at them! :P
Yayay for The Hunger Games - I still haven't seen it!! :)
Food looks so great! Can you believe I can't eat salmon, though? Not allergic, but I'll gag on it somehow. :(
This weekend is Eid-il-fitri, the Muslim new year of sorts, so the next 2 days will be full of visiting relatives. :]
I LOVE quinoa! :) and it sounds like you had an amazing week!
And I, too, would love to know where those spinning things from playgrounds went! They were the best! And we don't have any real seasaws here anymore either. I know they're kind of dangerous... but we all somehow survived, right?? All I'm saying is I would die to go on a seasaw again sometime.
I would love to see a picture of you dancing =D
Thanks for dropping by my site, and yeah, there's something wrong with my comment box, but I already fixed it , though (I hope) =)
so i really suck at baking.
i tried making the macaroons that my sis in law made but...
take 1) i substituted the cocoa for choco protein powder but totally didn't realize that choco protein powder is already sweet. the added sugar made it ultra sweet.
take 2) this time, i tried no sugar to see how it would taste. it tasted bland. not only that, i forgot the step where you beat it for 3-5 minutes to make the mixture extra thick. it came out looking like timbits. bland timbits.
take 3) this time, i learned my lesson from take 1 and 2 so i put just enough sugar and made sure to beat the mixture until it was thick. only this time, i baked it at w's parents house... so though 15 minutes at the oven at our house was perfect, 15 minutes at their oven burned the macaroons... as in all the bottoms were black. We had to nibble off the tops in order to eat anything.
BUT I MUST NOT REST UNTIL I GET THEM PERFECT!!!! Yes, this is how much of a baking noob i am... 4 ingredients and i manage to mess it up 3 times. Hahaha!
oooh the first two photos definitely has my stomach growling. It looks really good and now I am hungry! hahaha. Wow, so you're doing zumba? I tried that with my friend and ended up laughing most of the time because I just couldn't keep up. =)
It's been far too long since I've done yoga! Inspired!
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