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(Saskatoon post coming soon!)

Easy Apple Tart

Ingredients:

• 1 sheet puff pastry, cut into half
• 3 - 4 whole apples, cored, halved, thinly sliced, not peeled
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
• 1 egg (for pastry egg wash)

1. Preheat your oven to 415 degrees

2. Place your sliced apples in a bowl and add the brown sugar and salt and mix together (I used my hands as it was easier).

3. If you haven't bought ready-rolled pastry, roll it flat and cut into 2 rectangular pieces and placed on a greased baking tray or baking parchment.

4. Place your sugary apple slices on your pastry, overlapping slightly. 

5. Brush the outer edge of exposed pastry with a beaten egg. 

 

6. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until the pastry has turned golden-brown.

7. Dust with icing sugar.

 8. Enjoy with a giant dollop of vanilla ice cream and then have seconds, and then
have thirds.

They're creepy and they're kooky

Happy Halloween!

I made a 'Death by Chocolate' cake for work. I must add that it was not poisonous in any way, this was just the toxic 'look' I was going for:

 

Me and the other Art Directors made the effort to dress up. However the same cannot be said for most of the accounts team. BOOOO (both in the disappointed and Halloweeny-way).

 

 ^This is not a real corpse, it is a foam man we use as a prop.

 

 ^Laura's AMAZING make-up and Neha, one of the few accounts peoples to Halloween it up.

^ My cray eyelashes - they were interesting to wear with glasses, all squished up against them.

And last but not least, a very special Halloween message from Maple...

This is her first 'outfit', she didn't seem very impressed, but she was just so cute I'm going to have to persevere and get her some more clobber.

Calgary Road Trip - Part deux

We arrived in Calgary around lunchtime and checked into our hotel. We then met up with our friends Ellie and Matt who were in Canada on holiday from the UK. It was really nice to see some familiar faces, Ellie and I have been friends since we were about 14 years old, so we had lot's to talk about.

We headed to the Calgary Zoo to have a walk around. Despite Calgary's recent floods the Zoo was still open with just a few enclosures closed to the public - and it was only 10 bucks to get in!

Here are some snaps from the owl sanctuary...

 ^ Hedwig

 ^ Ellie and an eagle

  

 

^ The one picture of Matt I got! (spot the T-rex)

We then headed back down to 17th Ave to check out the bars and restaurants...

 

 We spend the evening drinking discount beer at Boston Pizza and wondering the streets (but not in a hobo way).

The next day we visited a mall as David needed to go to an Apple store. It's probably the closest official Apple store to Regina!

There was also a 'British Shop' in the mall, which stocked such wonders as Walkers Crisps, Wine Gums, Yorkshire Tea, and various football-themed (soccer to you Canadians) lunch boxes. I was really happy to find these Fruit Pastilles as I worked on the 'Happy Pack' promotion in the UK :)

 Then it was time for a round of large slurpees and another eight and a half hours on the road to Regina.

 Maple was pleased to see us, but she was mostly pleased to have a paper bag to play with. She has been sitting on it like she's trying to lay an egg for about 3 weeks. Awwww.