great indoors

today, my husband (still getting used to that word!), and I stayed inside most of the day (we did take pup to the dog park) .. despite the 28 degree weather .. and worked on the house. He dry-walled, and I tiled the backsplash. I have to finish the grouting tomorrow, so pictures to come! In case you were wondering, tiling sucks. Especially because I made him cut around the receptacles wrong, and now he has to figure out how to make it work because the tile is already up... whoops. My bad. 

Something that I am much (well, not that much...) better at is baking quinoa granola. I made some tonight, and made the house into a sweat box in the process. I thought I would post the recipe, because turns out, not only did it smell delicious, it WAS, in fact, actually delicious. 

Ingredients:

2 cups GFree rolled oats

1 cup uncooked quinoa

1/2 cup mixed dried berries

1/2 cup pumpkin seeds

1/2 cup almond slices

1/2 cup sesame seeds

1/2 cup shredded coconut

1/4 cup chia seeds

1/4 cup flax

1/4 cup hemp hearts

1/2 cup cocoa beans (optional)

1 cup agave nectar

1/2 cup maple syrup flavoured agave nectar or coconut oil melted

3 tablespoons cinnamon

- preheat oven to 225 degrees on bake

- mix dry ingredients together well

- add wet ingredients and stir stir stir!

- bake on cookie sheet with wax paper for 45 mins, stir, bake another 45 mins and voila! Delicious.

Tomorrow, I will be continuing with the "good wifey" deeds on my day off, and making chili and soup to freeze for the winter. yum. Just way too obsessed with food at the moment apparently??

"I like a cook who smiles out loud

when he tastes his own work"

--- Robert Farrar Capon

this perfect day

boy, what a day. Perfection. It's really amazing when a year of planning, scratch that, a lifetime of planning your perfect wedding day comes to fruition right in front of your eyes. Everything looked exactly as I wanted it to - and more importantly - I got to marry the man of my dreams.

From the way both of us looked, to the decor, the food, the speeches and the FUN, it was amazing. I feel so blessed to have the family and friends that I do, and I cannot wait for the life ahead of me with my best friend and husband. Here is just a taste (I mean a TASTE.. there are 800 pictures) of our very own perfect day: June 30th, 2012.

Voila. Un perfet de jour. I have NO idea if thats right...