Work Conference Weekend

One of my good friends from school and work had to go to Toronto for a weekend, where we were to attend a work conference and were placed in the intercontinental hotel for the weekend! We had a wonderful time and learned a lot! We also dined our little hearts out of course! 

 Earls most delicious part of their menu. Spinach dip... mmm my mouth is salivating just looking at it. Of course we also had to have a mojito while out to dinner.. my favourite!

 My favourite part of hotel rooms have always and will always be the robes! I always throw them on as soon as I get in and refuse to take them off ahha 

 Every year I fall in love with the Eaton centres over whelmingly huge christmas displays! They are gorgeous 

 OOTN! Leather leggings from Zara and beautiful red pumps from Aldo & Alysons gorgeous Marc by Marc purse. 

Dining and dashing !

As I said in my earlier post- my computer crashed! (literally one of the worst days of my life- everything got erased! :( ) With that being said, for now, I have nowhere to upload pictures, so all I can post for you is compilations of my life through my iPhone! 

After being sick for over a week with a sinus infection and fever I was barely eating! I had no appetite at all, so of course as soon as I could handle food I had to make something tasty! This is garlic naan bread pizza with banana peppers, grilled chicken, my Nonno's homemade tomato sauce and arugula with balsamic dressing ontop! Mmmm

One of my best friends is going to study abroad in Australia from February until August (lucky bitch)! I am so jealous! She is going to have the time of her life and come back so tanned while I am stuck in this little city covered in snow :( As our last bang before she left for her adventure, we went out to sushi at Spoon and Fork! It was delicious! I don't think I have ever gone for all you can eat sushi and didn't waddle my way through the door on my way out! 

For Christmas this year my awesome roommate bought me a cupcake recipe book and I have been baking from it non stop! With one of my best friends from home's birthday coming up I had to experiment with some new cupcakes! After all that delicious sushi my friends and I went back to my place to whip up a batch of home made cupcakes for out besties birthday! 

This had to be the coolest thing ever! I had never played with, let alone made from scratch modelling chocolate! It was so fun to play with and the coolest thing to feel it thicken up so fast as I mixed the chocolate with the syrup! 

my little chocolate modellers! 

Happy Birthday Girl!

My friend Brody is in a program at my school (HAFA) where one of his projects was to create a menu and cook it for anyone who made a reservation at the restaurant! With that being said we had to go have a taste of his fantastic food! It was very well done and I'm so proud! I had potato, leek and bacon soup (my favourite), and a leek and mushroom quiche with miso spinach salad! Even though it was only 11:00 we had to take advantage of buying a beer to go with our meal too hehe 

Typical action of my roommate and I! Minj has been dying to get another tattoo and so after finally deciding on exactly what she wanted we ran over to the tattoo parlour and got it done! It was so fast (I swear it only took 15 minutes to pay, draw out and tattoo) and now she has 2 awesome new tattoo's on the sides of her feet! She took it like a champ and was even taking pictures of the tattoo artist working herself! 

My latest obsession is with Buddha's and I recently bought a third statue to put in my room! It finally came and I can't wait to set it up! ... fully in love! 

Just a little taste...

Just a few things from my winter break at work. Pretty much just stacks on stacks on stacks of everything! Plus, shrimp towers have to be the biggest pain in the ass. Half the time you are just about finished building it and then all of a sudden BAM! they all fall down. I have fortunately learned the tricks on how to master it!

I actually got to take my girlie out on a nice Birthday dinner this year... hopefully it made up for the disaster I was last year:( This girl has been in my life through good and bad (mostly bad) and we've stuck it out! Love her to bits! 

My family and I have been attempting to get our Italian citizenship for a while now! It takes forever to get all the proper documents! We went back 3 times before we finally got accepted and as a celebration we went out for Sushi! haha clearly we are so Italian :) 

The second and third picture of sushi are from the best sushi restaurant in Guelph called Sushi Choice! I have posted the spicy vegetable roll before (i get it every time I can't help it) but the butterfish (the third pic) is also awesome! I've never been a big fan of the raw fish, but I'm starting to expand my sushi choices! 

Finally the last picture of sushi is my first attempt at making sushi that has the rice on the outside. My roommate clearly knows my obsession, because she bought me a sushi mat for Christmas! I've been putting it to good use. I haven't gotten to the professional extent of the sushi in the earlier pictures, but hopefully soon enough I will. 

Shakespeare's Arms has some pretty awesome sandwiches. I got a turkey and brie sandwich (obviously.. brie will be the death of me! I love it too much)