"I'm not dead. Let's have dinner" (Holidays Part 1)

Happy New Year!
May 2014 be filled with new adventures.

Master procrastinator that I am, I haven't written anything here in a long while so this post was meant to cover anything interesting that might have happened since last time.

I got to go home to Winnipeg for the holidays and see all (well almost) my favorite people! While it was FREEZING there, I've certainly felt warm enough being surrounded by all of my friends.

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The highlight of this trip was certainly the 5 days spent at a cabin my friends and I rented in Gimli. We were pretty much completely cut from the world (read no cell signal or internet) and it made for a great getaway. We played games, went on walks, cross-country skiing, ate, read and caught up. Most of us hadn't seen each other for some months and it was so great to have everyone under one roof.

#ThrowbackThursday - l'été est fini (partie 2)

2e tranche du Throwback Thursday! Le mois de juillet qui, je dois le dire, fut très amusant et bien rempli cette année!

Welcome

Hi!

I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a little while, it’s still a thing right? I know it was big not that long ago. And I read a TON of cooking blogs so I know those are definitely ‘in’.

Why a blog?:

It’s recently been a year since I left my Winnipeg home and moved to Montreal and although nothing very exciting has happened I thought some might like a little insight on what it’s like for me here. This blog is also definitely a way for me to procrastinate, let’s be real, but I think it can be a good way for me to take a step back and look at my everyday life with a critical eye. Plus it’ll be fun to look at a few years from now.

So here I am. Mise en place is French for...preparation, to put it simply. In English it is used in the cooking world to refer to all the little steps that need to take place before the actual cooking happens. For me, Mise en place will be a place to share a little bit of what, I'm hoping, is preparing me for a good, healthy, fun future. Plus, it's a combination of French and cooking, what could be more fitting?!

Bienvenue

Allo!

Depuis quelque temps je pense commencer un blog. Me semble que c’est la mode, ou ce l’était il y a quelques années. Je lis plusieurs blog de cuisine et je sais que ça, au moins, c'est très tendance ces temps-ci.

Pourquoi un blog?

Ça a fait un an que je suis partie de Winnipeg et même si il ne se passe habituellement rien de très palpitant ici, je me suis dit que peut-être que certains aimerait avoir une petite image de ce qui se passe ces temps-ci. C’est en partie aussi une forme de procrastination! Haha, soyons honnête et peut-être même de médiation, pour que je puisse mettre en perspective ma vie de tous les jours.

Alors voilà!
Mise en place, c'est utilisé en cuisine pour définir toutes les petites tâches à accomplir avant de se mettre à cuisiner le vrai plat. C'est la préparation. Pour moi, mise en place sera un endroit où partager un peu de ce qui, je l'espère, me prépare pour un bel avenir, c'est recherché hein!?