I hope you can join me on Saturday, April 30 @ 2:30 pm at Words Worth Books, 100 King St. S., Waterloo, ON. I’ll be sharing 3 of the recipes from “Cooking With Sin”:
1. “Wedding Pudding” Dutch Advokaat (pg. 86) 2. Pasta de la Coeur (pg. 168) 3. Milk & Cookies for the “Real” Santa (pg. 140)Yum! Yum! & Yum!
I’ll also be promoting my first book “Magnetic Real Estate Photography”
It’s a FREE event!
Thank you Words Worth Books! It was a truly FUN day!
See all the recipes on my blog: www.CookingWithSin.com
The Grand Home & Life Show just took place on the weekend at Bingeman’s in Kitchener, ON. It was great fun!
Thank you to the Grand Home & Life Show crew for organizing such a wonderful event. Thank you to everyone who stopped by my booth and to everyone who enjoyed the Cooking Stage.
Special Thank you to Chef D of www.ChefDTV.com for sharing your ”Edible Magic” Scallop Martini with the crowd. It sure caused a buzz. 
Here is the recipe from my “Cooking With Sin” site: http://cookingwithsin.com/2010/09/12/%e2%80%9cedible-magic%e2%80%9d-scallop-martini/
Let me tell you about my friend Chris Steingart at QT Web Designs. http://qtweb.ca/ He is my “go to” guy for everything technical. It’s one thing to know that he is a top expert in the technical aspects of desgning a website, but he also has a very trusted artistic eye that he combines with exceptional knowledge of marketing. He’s got it all and I’m so glad to have him on my team.
Thank you Chris for featuring “Cooking With Sin” on your blog. You were there with me from the beginning. http://qtweb.ca/2011/01/12/cooking-with-sin/
“Cooking With Sin” and “Magnetic Real Estate Photography” will be showcased tomorrow, Saturday, April 9 at MeFest in the Waterloo Rec. Centre. This show is a first for me, so I’m really looking forward to meeting all the attendees and exhibitors.
Admission is $5, but if you bring food for the food bank it’s only $3. That’s a win for you and for the food bank!
Hope to see you out!
It is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and I salute my sisters all over the world. Whether we live in a developed or developing country, we know that equality for women has never been assumed or easily attained. For some reason men have dominated almost every facet of human history and women have had to fight for decent and equal treatment.
Two contrasting pieces in today’s Globe and Mail explain it so well.
Margaret Wente explains very well how far we have come here in Canada. There is no denying we are the wealthiest, freest, most decently treated women in the world. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/for-the-free-educated-and-affluent-welcome-to-the-century-of-women/article1933187/
Then Stephanie Nolen takes a direct look at the undeveloped world where the majority of women live. Why do their lives have to be so horrificly more difficult. It’s not fair. It’s not right and those of us who have it so much easier can not just live with our heads in the sands declaring feminism to be dead. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/in-much-of-the-world-gains-in-womens-rights-elude-a-silent-majority/article1933117/
46 years ago today, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, 600 people in Alabama started marching from Selma to Montgomery to protest the harassment the African-American community had received over trying to register to vote. Unarmed, they were met by the police who fought them with clubs, whips and tear gas. The blood-filled images were broadcast across the continent and around the world. The day became known as “Bloody Sunday.” While the marchers suffered big losses that day, the US as a nation was moved to make changes and a few months later the “Voting Act” was passed.
“Oh I can’t believe the news today.
I can’t close my eyes and make it go away.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long? – U2
U2 wrote this song as a call to peace remembering two “Bloody Sunday”s in Ireland.
This morning I saw photos in the newspaper of ordinary Libyan citizens sharing why they were fighting in the rebellion. A businessman, an army vet, a taxi driver and a blacksmith. They may be way across the pond, but it’s the same struggle. “Rich or not,” he said, “it’s been like living in prison in this country.”
What Libyans are fighting for today is identical to what the African-American community fought for here only a few decades ago. The African-American community struggled long and hard (too long and too hard) to be treated with decency. The struggle in Libya will also be too long and too hard.
Why is freedom and decency so hard to hold and maintain in the world? Why is our human history full of oppressors? This I know. The answers are both complex and simple.
All of humanity hurts when any one of us hurts. Thoughts, prayers, and hopes go to the people of Libya and Tunisia and Egypt and Afghanistan and the many other parts of our small globe where people just want to live with decency.
There are very few agents and other real estate professionals who understand the power of the aesthetic. Most real estate ad photos are deplorable. Most ad photos send people on to the next listing. And the biggest reason is because most real estate professionals have no idea! They don’t know their ad photos are bad.
It is a sister to staging. I like to get together with stagers because we bring the same strengths to the business of selling homes. We know how to attract buyers to properties faster and get the properties sold for more $$.
Here is a beautiful example. Paul Reynolds and I have chatted back and forth via Twitter and LinkedIn for the past year. Paul has a superb understanding of the importance of ad photos. He gets it that they are the front line of marketing. He gets it that ad photos will do one of two things: draw people in or send them away.
Paul just put his home in Vancouver BC up for sale. Take a look at his photos. He let the stagers do what they do best and he hired a professional real estate photographer to do what he did best. It worked! This listing is spectacular! Good luck with your sale Paul!
See the full listing here: http://video.pixilink.com/video/2628-w-king-edward-st-t/
On an interesting side note, the beautiful staging was done by Heather Kleim, of Epic Empire Designs. http://epicempiredesigns.ca/ It just so happens that Heather also contributed to my latest book “Cooking With Sin.” www.CookingWithSin.com Don’t you love it when you are reminded just how small the world is?!
The month is almost over, but I finally got around to reading the January 2011 edition of Food and Drink Digital. To my wonderful surprise, the editor, Laura Canter published the story that started my “Cooking With Sin” adventure. So cool!
I am a regular contributor to the Food and Drink Digital blog.
Take a look through the magazine. You’ll enjoy the informative articles and beautiful photos. It covers a broad range of topics and is targeted for the corporate world.
My article is on page 14! Click on the image below.
http://www.foodanddrinkdigital.com/magazines/3812
Welcome 2011!
May you enjoy celebrating the new year and all the best as you pursue new hopes and dreams! Resolve to love yourself and care for yourself even if you don’t make it to the gym or lose the weight or quit smoking or whatever it is you’ve been flogging yourself for.
Love yourself. Love those around you. Count your blessings. It’s a new year!
Carla
Two nights ago I held my “Cooking With Sin” book launch. It was a really great evening and just to make the evening even more memorable, I popped one of the buttons of my jacket! Perfect!
Thank you to Donna Ragona for making the trip and joining us that night. Here is her post about the night. http://ideas2inspire.blogspot.com/2010/12/cooking-with-sin.html
Thanks Donna!
And ”Thank you” to everyone who came out and made it a very special night!
