Jaimie Roo's Profile

For my wedding we picked a few cocktails form our going-out history; one based on a dark and stormy (ginger beer and rum) we had during a fantastic dinner out in Manhattan, and a tea punch based on one we had in London.

In the small town where I grew up, there were no tortilleria or even crummy grocery store tortillas to be had, so I would always get this for making tortillas.

I got married a few weeks ago, and used MyRegistry (we're Canadian so I ended up setting up a Kinek account to save people from having to pay crazy shipping/customs fees), and it was perfect.

We initially weren't going to have a registry, as we're fairly young and the first of our friends to get married, and didn't want to pressure our friends (most of whom are just a few years out of university) with getting us gifts - but we had so many people asking about it, particularly from our older guests, that we did one anyway.

People still mostly gave cash gifts, but I think it can be nice to put together a registry just in case people want to be more traditional, and if they want to go 'off-book,' they have a good idea of your style (e.g. getting you a set of vintage tea cups they find second-hand, because your registry is very ecelectic, etc.)

I love the idea of a healthy breakfast popsicle!

I really love to have an apple corer - it's a much tidier way of making my nana's "apple doughnuts" (cored apple, sliced, with cinnamon and sugar). If I were one to buy pineapple more often, I think that one would be handy too, but I just don't think I would use it enough to be worth it!

Libbet42 did make me think about the accessibility issues - reminds me of an episode of The F Word when Ramsay when head-to-head in the kitchen with a blind politician who used a slap-chop for everything, which really made me rethink the motility of cooking!

I tend to go the freezing route too - albeit after usually eating half a fresh loaf thick with butter!

It's not perfect, but (after freezing), I find a loaf usually lends itself okay to your day four and five suggestions!

I love that bleach recipe!

I myself am a simple soap-and-water, or water-and-vinegar kind of girl - but if all it takes is a dip in the bottle this is definitely something I would consider trying, especially in the bathroom. For me I think it would beat having a few all purpose cleaners to this one simple one, and one that I could dilute myself like that would last so much longer.

While I might not switch to bleach full time, this article definitely made it seem (potentionally) less scary, thanks!

Over at Dinner with Julie there is an awesome recipe for homemade Raincoast Crisps! Maybe they are Canadian... but I am SURE there are international versions, and now this homemade one. Amazing!

http://dinnerwithjulie.com/2009/01/27/rosemary-raisin-pecan-crisps/

Isn't this a Julia Child-ism too? I swear I've seen her do it on The French Chef!

This is so cool! And I appreciate the safety police, but I think @Dave the Land Pirate and @BCT are right, it would function as a great teaching tool - by being able to learn not to touch a burner with a fake burner, it's lesson you might not have to learn with a real one!