Friday Roundup: June 2

Happy Friday!!! Another Friday, another weekend will go by, most likely too quickly! Was it me, or did this week go by so slowly? It was back to the gloom this week in Vancouver, rain for the past four days 🙁 Anyways before reading the fun links I share for Friday Roundup, I’ll recap my week!

I was lucky enough to attend a dinner hosted by Canadian Lentils on Tuesday. FREAKIN’ DELICIOUS! The chefs were Trevor Bird (Fable Kitchen) and Pino Posteraro (Cioppinos). They came up with such a lovely menu from canapés, appetizers, a joint entrée and two desserts, alllll using lentils! We learned a lot about lentils, how many farmers in Canada (7,000!), heard a lentil farmer speak about his farm and drank a lot of wine!

My favourite dish was the lobster tail with red lentils that were almost like risotto and the desserts of course haha.

The rest of my week was working out, painting our apartment and watching House of Cards. This weekend will be more painting, two events and buying a new vacuum! You know you’ve gotten older when a new vacuum is super exciting! The events I’ll be going to are a brunch at Rocky Mountain Flatbread and celebrating Wildtale‘s 2 year anniversary. Can’t wait to eat!

We also watched LA92, The Wizard of Lies and finished the latest season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. And at work we had a food truck day, so I had pizza!

I also need to catch up with my blog posts, I have a plethora of beauty/skin care posts to share, travel guides for Europe and recipes! So stay tuned for some fun content 🙂 I’ll be honest, I need to withdraw in May, just was a whirlwind first few months of the year. Let me know in the comments, what content you’d like to see more of.

What are your weekend plans? Anyone attending any weddings? It’s that season after all and I keep seeing brides all over the city. Hope the weather shapes up for them.

Friday Roundup Links

1. 100 places to experience retro LA (LA Mag)
2. Interesting piece on truckers of America (NY Times)
3. Drug addiction is everywhere, even with your neighbours. (The New Yorker)
4. Women on aging (Manrepeller)
5. Photo series showing the grit and danger of NY Subway in the 70s and 80s (My Modern Met)
6. I love these! (This is Colossal)
7. 33 things this food blogger learned from cookbooks (Dinner, A Love Story)
8. The reality behind those Instagram photos (Bored Panda)

On the Blog This Week

1. Dinners as easy as 1, 2, Fresh Prep