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Chocolate Tasting

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The other day we were invited by some of noa’s friends to join them for a chocolate tasting at chocolaterie nouvelle france. Its on Main st, and has been there for a few years now. Anyways, so we get there and its just the 4 of us in the tiny little cute store. how fun! [flickr id=”7306361442″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] so, first off, theres some very delicious whipped cream on the table. [flickr id=”7306362788″ thumbnail=”large” overlay=”false” size=”large” group=”” align=”none”] everyone except for me…

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Cheese Making

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Well, for our anniversary this year, noa and i decided to take a cheese making course. It was offered by a cheese maker who lives on Mayne Island, yes, its a real island in the gulf islands, i have never heard of it either. Every once in a while he offers class at UBC, and we had been talking about learning how to make cheese for a while, so we went. The class was 4.5 hours long, and we learned how to make Yoghurt cheese,…

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Tea tray finally done

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Well, its been a pretty long time since i started working on this tea tray. in fact, it really started during the winter of 09/10, when i found some local maple that was sawn down, convinced bill to get a load of it with me, and stored it in bill’s garage for all of 2010 waiting patiently for it to dry. as you can see when i first started working on it late last year, it still had not fully dried, and got lots of…

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