PinkSquirrel
Website: http://ofatoastandtea.wordpress.com/
Here For: tips and new ideas.
Want to Learn How: to make decadent recipes that are also healthy and low calorie. Practical techniques.
Heard about BakeSpace From: mashable.com
Schools:
Cooker or Caker: Both
Bake/Cook Frequency: 1-5 times a week
Baking/Cooking Training: My mother let my stir and chop...aside from that I've learned from trial and error and reading.
Favorite Food: Chocolate and/or zucchini.
Favorite Food Moment: The first turkey that my husband and I cooked together. My husband, who is a biologist, had to phone my Mom to ask which end to stuff.
Favorite Cooking Word: frothy - that pure white colour that milks turns when you shake it, plus that cool fresh taste and bubbly texture.
Favoriate Restaurant: Bambino's (Prince Arthur St., Amherst NS), Memories (Clarence St., Ottawa ON), The Bell Buoy (Chebucto St., Baddeck NS), Kings Palace (Quinpool Rd., Halifax NS), Ray's Lebanese Food (Duke St., Halifax NS)
Favorite Chef: Gordan Ramsey
In My Town Try: Kings Palace (Quinpool Rd., Halifax NS), Ray's Lebanese Food (Duke St., Halifax NS), Fireside (Brunswick St., Halifax NS), Athens (Quinpool Rd., Halifax NS)
Interests: swimming, yoga, cats, cross-stitch, The Sims 2, MMORPGs, Lord of the Rings Online, cooking, reading
Books: I prefer fantasy and I don't have much patience for science fiction. The best books I've read in a long time were Memoirs of a Geisha, Stardust and Twilight.
Music: Jack Johnson, Barenaked Ladies, Dispatch, Big Sugar, Gin Blossoms, Enya, Aqua, Great Big Sea, Maplewood, Simon and Garfunkel, Cornershop, Nelly Furtado, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, Kelly Clarkson
TV/Movies: cooking shows, Heroes, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Big Love, Kitchen Nightmares, Bones, Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye, Big Bang Theory
Travel: Anywhere I can get by car.
