Best Friends

Hey guys!  I just wanted to recommend another blog to you real quick.  My best friend and I have a blog of letters back and forth to each other.  It is really fun for us to right.  I hope it is just as fun for you to read.  Click here to go to the blog.  Enjoy!!!

a goal accomplished

At the beginning of my summer, I posted a blog with a challenge.  The challenge was to set out on an adventure to eat 10 new things.  In case you forgot about that blog (or you are a new follower), you can reread it here.  So, I must say that I completed my own challenge.  I don't really know what all I ate, but I did enjoy most of the things I tried.  I won't list everything I tasted, but I will tell you my favorite thing--- a MANGO!  I had never eaten an actual mango before.  A few weeks ago, I was at the store and decided to buy one and try it.  I loved it!  I have only ever had them in drinks like Snapple.  I really love fruit in general, so this was just another fruit to add to my list of fruits I like.  Have you ever had a real mango before??  The majority of the new food I tried was Indian.  I had all of that while I was visiting Canada.  The samosa would be the highlight of the Indian food I had, but I really enjoyed it all.

p.s. I even saved the seed so that I can plant it.  I still must research on planting it, but I will let you know if anything exciting happens to it.  Just to see a small sprout of a tree sometime would make me happy. 

Did you try a lot of new food this summer?

special for my canadian followers

here it is--TORONTO!!

Well, this is actually from the American side.

These few pictures above are just a couple of the sights I saw while I was in Canada.  Are they not amazing?  I had such a great time there!  I hope and pray all the time that I might get to go back soon in a short time.  We will see how God uses me in the next few years.

Since this is a food blog, I want to tell you about the food I had in Toronto.  The area I stayed in was highly influenced by South Asian food.  One thing I tried was a samosa.  It was a very interesting food to me.  I had never tried one before or even heard of one until I ate it.  Later I found that there are many different kinds.  The one I ate had mashed potatoes, peas, and other things.  It was all these different thing mixed together (to make a green goodness of food) and held inside dough.  The whole thing is fried to make it a golden brown color on the outside.  It is kind of hard to put into words.  I don't even really know what kind I did have.  While there, I had some other food originating in India.  I really liked it all.  I had really eaten almost no Indian food before going on the trip.  I enjoyed all the food and all the sites of my trip!  I hope that you can enjoy Canada some day if you already have not!

p.s.

Dear Canadians,

I just want you to know that you now have a very special place in my heart.  God is working through people where you live all the time.  You are amazing people in an amazing place!

Much love,

"Beckie"

Have a blessed Wednesday night everyone!

How We Party

I am finally finding time to blog during a break in my crazy busy schedule.  Canada was amazing! I loved it so much that I dream of going back almost all the time.  I will tell you more about that trip in my next post.
I got to hang out with some really cool friends this past Thursday night.  We were having a party to not only see each other, but we also wanted to reminisce childhood as we watched old Disney movies.  People trickled to the party on their own time, so we did not want to start without them.  We had to make cupcakes anyways, so it was fine that people were late.  Nothing could have fit the moment better than turning the TV on to the Food Network.  Who can seriously say that they hate the Food Network?  If that is the case for you, I am confused by your thoughts.  One of my brothers doesn't like it, but that doesn't count.  I will never be able to understand my brothers fully.  So to start off our Disney party, we made cupcakes and watched cooking shows for about two hours.  Giada was the first show on.  Not only was I excited to be watching the cooking channel, I was ecstatic to see one of my all time favorite cooks on first.

Following that, we watched Top Chef and Chopped. 
The only bad thing about watching these shows is the watching part.  My mouth waters almost uncontrollably for the food I am watching be prepared.  I wish I could taste a little bit of everything, but alas, I must be content to stay on the couch and marvel at the brilliance behind it all.  Eventually we did get on with the party.  We watched several Disney movies.  Dinner consisted of some amazingly delicious pizza and some veggies.  I tried a cucumber.  I know I have had one before a while back, but I forgot what they tasted like.  I am more of a broccoli and cheese girl.  I also love green beans, corn, and generally carrots.  I use the word 'generally' because I am not a huge fan of cooked carrots. 
That being said, I had a great time hanging out with friends, making food, watching food, and eating food.  I hope you have had some good food this week!
I have one thing to leave you with before you go.  Hopefully you are not gone forever.  My hope is that you are drawn back again to read more.  The thing I most enjoy about the cooking channel is the passion the people have for the food.  Giada used the word--divine--to describe her food yesterday.  What words do you have to describe your food?? Try and use that word to describe some kind of food you eat this next week.