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April 6, 2009

Noah’s Family Birthday Get-Together

Filed under: Animals,Children,Food,Life — Holly @ 4:29 pm

The other weekend my family came over so we could celebrate Noah’s 9th Birthday. Unfortunately Noah was too quick for me when he blow out the candles, I completely missed it! Oh well, maybe next year!

My mother’s dog, Simon, came along to join the fun. You may remember Simon from a shoot I did of him in High Park profiled in a previous blog posting:

In the end there wasn’t much left of the delicious chocolate cake, and believe me there would have been even LESS if my children had had anything to say about it! 😉

Yeah! One more blog posting to go!

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First Sign of Spring, Out & About in the Park

Filed under: Animals,Children,Life,Out & About,The Natural World — Holly @ 4:03 pm

I decided to give my Canon 70–200 f2.8L IS lens some loving, and also experiment with using it with an
extension tube attached to achieve closer focus then normally possible with that lens.

I captured this early sign of spring, this lens gives great bokeh:

Then ‘tried’ to capture some shots of the children, after socializing with other parents, in the park:

Caught this one shot of Maddy (whom you may remember from this blog post). Perhaps next time she’ll be on the loose in the park and I can really put that 200 mm to work!

Only two more blog posts to go, then I’ll be caught up…not sure if I’ll have time to get to them today or not though (but I will try). 🙂

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March 19, 2009

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies: Food Photography, Toronto

Filed under: Food,Life — Holly @ 7:44 pm

On Tuesday Noah and I made a very yummy batch of Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies (see recipe below). A mom from Noah’s school was kind enough to share the recipe, as I’ve been searching for a fantastic oatmeal cookie recipe, and this one fits the bill!

Since we already had the oven heated up, I thought I would throw another batch of cornbread into the oven. On Sunday I had made this Cornbread recipe from Whole Foods. Noah loved it. Rebecca wasn’t as keen. And it wasn’t quite what I was looking for either.

So then I tried this recipe from allrecipes.com. This time Rebecca loved it, and Noah wasn’t as keen—but it sure didn’t stop him from eating almost all of it!

The recent Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Cornbread recipe posted on smittenkitchen.com, sounds awesome. But I know my son won’t eat it, and Rebecca didn’t like the sound of it (and I don’t want to be stuck eating the WHOLE thing). So my search for the perfect cornbread recipe continues….

After all that baking I took a break and had a yummy Vanilla Red Tea latté made with steamed vanilla soya milk, yum!

I made Noah his usual hot chocolate:

Now, here’s the recipe:

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
½ cup sugar
½ cup light brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup oats
½ cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven at 350°. Mix the butter and sugars and blend until smooth. Add the egg and beat until creamy. Then add flour, salt, baking soda, and oats and mix together. Add chips and bake for 12 minutes. Enjoy!

A few notes, I used whole oats (not quick-cooking oats). I’m not sure what the mom who gave me the recipe usually uses…I’ll have to ask her the next time I see her. I also doubled the recipe, and it didn’t make a lot, next time I will probably triple it. I used half whole wheat flour and half Robin Hood nutri flour blend, to make them a bit healthier.

Watch for the next edition of EatSavvy photos soon!

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March 17, 2009

Kensington Market/Yorkville Park

Filed under: Children,Lensbaby,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 7:06 pm

The kids and I went down to Kensington Market this past Saturday with a friend. I decided to ONLY bring my lensbaby to shoot with as I haven’t done much shooting with it lately.

Rebecca, giving me the ‘look’:

In the Blue Banana Market, they have these cool pieces of artwork going up the stairs, numbers and @ sign, cut out of steel (or something) and painted. I thought the colour and texture was cool so took some macro shots with the lensbaby of the edges:

After we were hungry, so got some yummy meat patties, Noah was having fun watching the pigeons overhead:

Noah bought some funky glasses at the Blue Banana Market:

Caught this last shot of Noah, laughing, as we arrived back at the car:

On Sunday we headed down to Bloor Street to run some errands (the following were all shot with the 85 1.2L):

After our errands we went to the ‘big rock’ in Yorkville. Rebecca sat and applied nail polish, which didn’t end up being a great idea when she started moving and messed it up!

They both had fun running around on top of the big rock:

We stopped and had some lunch at Whole Foods on the way home:

I managed to get in front of the kids to capture a few shots:

Noah stopped in at the corner store, and Rebecca and I waited for him:

Noah is happy with his haul of sour keys (bag in left hand):

Today Noah and I baked yummy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies…watch for photos in the next few days….

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March 2, 2009

My Birthday Boy!

Filed under: Animals,Children,Food,Life — Holly @ 10:16 pm

My son Noah turned 9 today! Caught these two photos of him on the way home from school:

But on the weekend he had his big birthday party with his friends from school. On Saturday he helped me bake a cake:

On Sunday morning we iced and decorated the cake:

Noah enjoyed the left over gel icing from the tube:

But the really exciting and FUN part of the weekend came once Sabeena and Zack from Bugs Without Borders arrived. They started off with a little education, which was interesting and fun for the kids: