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  • A Visit to Romana Restaurant in Burnaby

    One day between Christmas and New Years my father-in-law invited our family out for lunch. We settled on Romana Restaurant on East Hastings (a couple blocks east of Willingdon Ave) after I remembered a Tweet-up I attended at Romana’s before Christmas. The owners of Romana have a two year old girl…who better to understand the…

  • Christmas Dinner 2010 in the Robinsmith House

    Somehow I became in charge of organizing, planning, preparing and cooking the Christmas feast for our household this year. Knowing that I was going to be feeding carnivores as well as vegetarians, my first stop was the Queens Park Meat Market. Without letting on that I am usually a vegetarian (these are people who have…

  • The Girls Eat Christmas Dinner

    The following video shows what the girls’ Christmas dinner degenerated into. The grown-up version was a little more civilized and all (post on our dinner tomorrow), but the girls had fun with their dinner. And they really seemed to love the new pens that Colleen gave them for Christmas! Oh, the following video was recorded…

  • A Dinner Party – With our Baby Girls in Attendance

    Well we are home again and the wee ‘uns are safely sleeping in their beds and all is right in the world. In short, we, my Sweetheart and our baby girls, and perhaps more importantly, our hosts survived our very first Christmas – Winter Solstice party. My Sweetheart’s anxiety was running at a fever pitch…

  • Vancouver Christmas Market and Kits Beach Playground

    Over the weekend we were downtown Vancouver so we seized the chance and went into the Vancouver Christmas Market. I had been reluctant to attend because I had heard so many horror stories about the line-ups to get. No such problem for us! We arrived and walked right into the Christmas Market where it was…

  • Christmas Turducken for our Family Meat-Feast

    I have decided, rather arbitrarily that our family Christmas feast will be centered around a Turducken. For those unfamiliar with such a beast, it is a chicken deboned wrapped inside of a deboned duck with the final outer layer of flesh of a deboned turkey. However, such a feast can be ridiculously expensive so I…

  • Peckinpah; Vancouver’s Carolina-style Barbecue House

    Vancouver has a new barbecue house. Peckinpah is a Carolina-style barbecue house that is opening tonight. And how cool is this, it is located in Gastown on the site where the original Gassy Jack’s Saloon was located. Although Peckinpah officially opens tonight, Saturday night, the good folks at Peckinpah welcomed me and my Banker into…

  • Lunch at the Flame Stone Grill

    We were visiting a friend yesterday and saw a take-out menu for the Flame Stone Grill on our friend’s coffee table. Our friend raved about the place saying that the lunch specials are massive in size and flavour and yet very reasonably priced. Like $4.95 for a lunch special. So we decided to take our…

  • KFC’s Double Down Goes on Hiatus

    Even in the name of science I could not bring myself to do; I could not eat the KFC Double Down. After work today I sat in the parking lot in front of a KFC franchise trying to will myself out of my car and into the KFC.  I couldn’t do it; I couldn’t get…