Posts Tagged ‘ Junkii ’

Blind Tasting aka Trust Game

Blind Tasting aka Trust Game

The Tasting Game – Lex's 5 Flavours — Originally uploaded by LexnGer For years we've been talking about doing a tasting game with our friends Rockr & Junkii. Modeled after Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen taste challenges where the chef's palates are evaluated, challenged and sometimes pushed well past the comfort zone. Watching this kind of thing made each of us wonder exactly how good or bad our palates were. Could we distinguish tuna from chicken? Endive from Radiccio? Soy from Tamari? by taste and mouth feel alone? We all like games, and are interested in exploring and educating our…

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Dinner Designed For Me

Dinner Designed For Me

It’s hard to go wrong with a menu that’s designed for you. I recently sat down with Chef Matt Kantor to design a dinner for 4 that I won in the LittleKitchen.ca contest. I was really excited – a meal designed for ME… er, and my guests – Gerry, Rockr & Junkii. I know their tastes fairly well.  Gerry and I have been together for 20 years and we share the cooking so no one’s tastes overrides the others (much). Rockr & Junkii are the dear friends I live with when I’m working in Ottawa, they are major contributors to CheapEats…

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Hand Made Noodles at Sun’s Kitchen

Hand Made Noodles at Sun’s Kitchen

Click to Play One of the cool things we ended up doing this weekend with Rockr & Junkii was hitting the Pacific Mall. We’ve gotten lots and LOTs and LOTS of recommendations for the food there and we’d just been aching to sample what’s available.  The food available covers most of the traditional Asian cuisines and when you reach the second floor it’s hard to miss the smell of fresh waffles wafting down the narrow aisles. After cruising all the restaurants, food kiosks and vendors in the food court, everyone except Stephen ended up in front of Sun’s Kitchen ordering…

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A Week of Daily Dramas

A Week of Daily Dramas

Also known as trying to catching you up on what I was up to the week around the launch. (You can also read the twitter version here) Sunday’s Drama – Honk, Honk, I’m Driving a Big-Assed Vehicle! The Big-Assed Vehicle We booked a mid-sized car at a great rate of $161 for a whole week, but somehow ended up with a big-assed vehicle (or “cross-over vehicle” in the current vernacular). Cool part? We got a vehicle with all the bells and whistles – seat warmers, Sirius radio, seating for 6 and plenty of room to move our entire office to…

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The Race to Save the Giant Locust – Junkii’s blog

The Race to Save the Giant Locust – Junkii’s blog

I realized there is absolutely no point in writing up my own description of our Nuit Blanche experience when Rockr has captured it so brilliantly. We all pretty much agreed that this year, Toronto’s Nuit Blanche was less interesting in terms of exhibits than it was last year. I mean, come on. Three boxes — one vibrating, one vibrating harder … Keep reading The Race to Save the Giant Locust on Junkii’s blog What I will say, that Rockr failed to mention, is he was curating our experience and that we eschewed almost everything with a line up (except of course Rannie‘s…

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Family Bus Trip

Family Bus Trip

What I'll look like when I get an SLR It seems like August is the month to run into family unexpectedly in Ottawa.  (Remember last year's surprise encounter with my Aunt from Holland  at a play in the park? ) This time, I surprised my cousin Kath & her husband by getting on the bus they were riding.  "What are you doing here?" Kath demanded, treating me as if I hadn't been in Ottawa for months. I was off to meet one of the CEOT team for a drink (which I desperately needed after this pizza-oven-of-a-week).  I guess Kath didn't get my…

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Book Meme redux

I decided to participate in Venus' Book Meme without being tagged.  I don't usually do memes, but I'm sick and bored, and had a book easily within grasp. Here are the meme instructions:  (you've likely seen this one before) Grab the closest book to you. Open to page 123 and find the fifth sentence on the page. Post the following three sentences to your blog. Name the book and the author. Tag three more people (and I'm assuming no tag-backs.) Season and moisten with mayonnaise. Pile into egg whites.  Tuna Stuffed Eggs — Use 6 hard-cooked eggs. Tag – stampgeek,…

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It’s A Banner Day

It’s A Banner Day

In celebration of successfully completing NaBloPoMo, and perhaps because I had a little free time from not posting yesterday, I decided unsweetened.ca need a little freshening up. Inspired by Junkii’s redesign of the CEOT banner (which will be up soon!), I introduce to you, unsweetened.ca‘s new banner: ,

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#78 Go Multimedia

Right-y-right then, multimedia.  Here are a couple of my Junkii inspired videos: Pop! — This was my first ever attempt at video.  Taken at the Galleria in North York after attempting to photograph the rice cakes being turned from rice to cake with a *POP*.  Junkii suggested I push the little record button instead.  This is the result.  (if you turn on the sound you can hear me too.)     Making of a Chicken Tikka Wrap  — This second one is taken at Shafali Indian Bazaar in the Byward Market building.  Their Chicken Tikka Wrap is one of my…

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Cats Get Musical

Cats Get Musical

Think this is funny?  You ain’t seen nothing yet.  Click through to see Rocr & Junkii’s collection of Record Store Cats from b3ta.hnldesign.nl

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Nuit Blanche, Jour Noir

Nuit Blanche, Jour Noir

The Night Boys We went. We saw art. We took photos. We got rained on. We handed out buttons. We took the TPTPC. We discoed. We slipped in mud. We sipped espresso. We sat in door ways. We listened. We ate chocolate. We ran into cool people. We stayed up late, so now we're napping.  Don't bug us.

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All Nighter

All Nighter

While I'm already being teased about my ability to stave off sleep, I'm planning on participating in Nuit Blanche with Rockr & Junkii (or is it just the Junkiis) tomorrow night.  I have already compiled a list of all-night-CheapEats to keep my strength up, and Ger has been working on a list of installations to hit.  Some of the high runners for me are the Yorkville Hub's beds, the TTC pillow fight vehicle and the Ball Room Dancing.  I'm excited about this great event and I hope everyone will come out, experience art in a new way and explore this…

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