August was a crazy month in the Eisner-Lafferty household. As those of you who read Rich’s blog are aware, he just started his MBA at U Ottawa. The last two weeks for him have been quite literally an intensive courseload: two classes completed in two weeks. Ouch. Needless to say, he has far less spare […]
I have been unfortunate enough to be suffering from a summer cold over the last week. This has meant I’ve spent a lot of time sleeping and not so much time doing other things. The weather in Ottawa has been pretty dreary lately, but last weekend was really quite nice — sunny and warm, good […]
Even though we don’t celebrate Easter, we do feel it’s a good excuse to cook a nice meal. And this year we decided to do something fun: buy a tofurky and try it out. Now, this wasn’t our first experience with tofurky, as we’d bought some of the slices to make hot ‘turkey’ sandwiches a […]
Valentine’s day this year fell in the middle of the week, on the day of the worst storm so far this winter. So needless to say, it wasn’t a terribly good day for us to do much. Besides, we don’t really feel we need a specific day to say we love each other; we do […]
spanakopita Originally uploaded by nyxie. One thing I’ve realized recently is that I really missed cooking while I was in school. For three years I barely felt like I had time to cook a good meal, because any hours of my day that weren’t spent in class were spent studying or practicing my skills. Now […]