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Your Thoughts On My Next Cell Phone

None of my smart phones will upgrade to the latest OS so it’s time for a tech upgrade. And I’m looking for all the Fanboys and Fangirls out there to weigh in. Tell me what you think, why you love (or hate) your phone. Why you hate (or love) the phones I’m considering, and what you think will suit. You are smart, you tell me what you think of my tech all the time and now I’m actually asking you what you think. Of course I don’t want any of this “get the new <shiniest object> cuz it’s the aw3somist!” silliness. Though…

I have recently started using Instagram more. After balking the trend and lamenting loudly, and frequently, about Instagram’s lack of collaborative, community-building and searching tools, I finally caved. I blame the Food Bloggers of Canada conference. Well, that and Instagram’s slick and quick interface which makes it so easy to share a photo and push it out onto my social spaces. (Where I can collaborate and build communities). Since I’m just getting rolling with Instagram it’s one of the few (only?) social media spaces where I have less than 500 followers AND where I have a higher follow-to-follower ratio.…

It’s true. It has happened. Let the bells ring out and the doves fly. I bought a new camera! Huzza, hurrah, hooray, I finally made the decision to buy an Olympus OM-D from the guys at Aden Camera who were incredibly helpful and had the best deal in town. You have put up with long months of carping and moaning about the state of my Canon cameras (possibly years). You have sat by while I road testing the Olympus E-PL3 (photos)- a micro 4/3s provided by Olympus for my Spain trip; and the Samsung NX20 (photos) – a 4/3s from…

Already using the Nordic Ware that was delivered as part of the Food Bloggers of Canada Conference swag. Gerry said as we plunked this onto the bbq “I wonder what the people without Nordic Ware are doing for lunch” We have plans afoot to develop some recipes for the Nordic Ware 365 Chicken Leg and Jalapeno Griller that will involve Canadian Beef (of course). After our first use of it and this sticky tandoori sauce, we were very impressed. The sauce got all over and baked down to a hard black char. And the whole thing wiped clean with little…

Food Bloggers Conference Swag from Nordic Ware!

This just in from from @Nordicware #FBC2013 Swag! Seriously, everyone going to the first ever Food Bloggers of Canada Conference were sent these from Nordic Ware, along with a challenge to use them, blog about it and get entered for a random draw for an even bigger set. Wow! www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/fbc-2013/ And yes, I’m attending and I’m also a speaker.

You’d think that I knew how to cook with all my posts on recipes and food. Small things like having a professional cook for a father, growing up working in restaurant kitchens and working as a camp cook at 15 would lead you to believe I know my way around cookware. And yet the T-fal Sensorielle pan had me completely confuddled. As part of the Canadian Beef Brand Ambassadorship, each of the Ambassadors received a wonderful non-stick T-fal pan with Thermo-spot Technology, and a batch of Hamburger Helpers. This was to be a part of our Big Batch Beef experimentation…

Honoured to be the Feature Member Blog for Food Bloggers of Canada.

How cool is this: the Food Bloggers of Canada have featured unsweetened.ca as their Featured Member Blog. My answers to the Q&A range from food-related to not so food-related and intensely personal, but that is the nature of unsweetened.ca, or as Gerry says unsweetened is “pure, undiluted, unsweetened Alexa” The fact I had to use my old banner really highlights my need for some unsweetened.ca logo/banner design work by someone who knows what they are doing! On a less self-critical note, I find it kind of cool that this feature was published the day before unsweetened.ca turned 9. Featured member…

Today: 15000th photo to Flickr, and my 9th blogiversary.

Today marks the 9th anniversary of my personal blog – unsweetened.ca (yes, this one!) The photo above is also the 15000 photo I have loaded to my personal account on Flickr. Yes 15000! If I ever wonder if I’m producing enough, this just answered it for me. Though I have a backlog of photos, posts and ideas just bursting to get out, so don’t expect me to stop any time soon.

Yes, I know this is not nearly as exciting for you as it is for me. But this is my blog, so you have to suffer through my verbal happy dance to get to the goodies like recipes, contests and delightful photos. Happy Dance, Happy Dance, Happy Dance! A couple of small favours to ask of you my kind and generous readers: If you have a second, please leave a quick comment on the blog, facebook or twitter! I’m doing a little test of Livefyre to manage comments and see if social comments will filter through so we can have…

Unsweetened.ca’s Moving Day. WordPress Here We Come!

Yes, it’s true, we are moving to wordpress and we’re moving today! Hold your horses (not your breath), and cross your fingers that all the name server, DNS mapping and RSS configuration we did in 2006 will get changed smoothly and quickly! If you are subscribed by RSS, there may be some hiccups. Maybe you can check the site directly later this week if you don’t see a “Hooray it worked seamlessly” coming through your reader or email. Ready, set, transfer!

I’m in the process of moving unsweetened.ca from Typepad to WordPress. Yes, I have caved. In fact, the next blog post you see from unsweetened.ca may just be on wordpress. You shouldn’t notice much of a difference. But check out this boring photo. Notice the last import line? 1415. Importing post Day 1 – On the Road Again… That’s 1415 blog posts, since I started blogging in 2004. I blog a LOT!

My first official assignment as a Canadian Beef Ambassador is to share with you the parts of the BeefInfo.org site that I like the most. I’m a food geek, and love to have lots of information at my fingertips (and in my head) all the time and BeefInfo.org satisfies a lot of my cravings. The site is really feature-rich, with lots of information every where you click including: There’s a whole section dedicated to Health Professionals focused on nutrition, research and resources, enough to satisfy most food geeks looking for data to feed their minds. Cooking lessons that include a…

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Lex In The Media

Alexa is this week's Featured Member blog on Food Bloggers of Canada
Alexa was featured as View The Vibe Friday Foodie, which started with "I caught up with this social media maven a few months ago at the Oikos’ Christmas in August dinner party and she stunned the heck out of me! This Jill of all trades is a publisher, writer, food blogger, photographer and lover of all things edible. She has her own publication of restaurant guides called Cheap Eats,...
My Kensington Market tour, as part of the Ultimate Foodie Excusion, made Merry's #1 Blissdom Moment this year.

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