Recipes - Roasted Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons

I had some tomatoes from the garden that needed to be used up. I have tried tomato soup before from fresh tomatoes but it was usally thin and not very flavoutful.
I came upon this Roasted Tomato Soup and immediately had to try it. It was delicious and very easy.
I didn't make the grilled cheese croutons, but they certainly look delicious. This would be a great recipe for a winter brunch.
I didn't get a photo, what was I thinking???

Toronto Thursday

American Express ad in the subway - so true. It is what you make it.

Thirsty Tuesday - Ireland

Having a cuppa at Bunratty Castle in Ireland.

The Queen is not amused

 Locked up!

 Me teaching Gaelic!

Sunday Baking

Finally! A whole day to myself to play!

Had too many bananas in the freezer so went looking for a really easy banana bread and this couldn't have been easier. I doubled it and it worked out perfectly. You don't even have to use a mixer on it.
I forgot to get a picture until I had cut it and frozen most of it. This half is for the next day or so.

But my main GOAL today was pumpkin cheesecake bars.  These were super easy to make, the only thing I didn't do quite right was to keep only 1/3 of the plain cream cheese batter, resulting in less than a colourful top. I had too much white to mix through the pumpkin layer.

October Garden

The weather's been so beautiful here so I thought I'd post some pictures of the garden, it is hanging in.
Even the honeysuckle won't give in!

 Lavender still blooming - couldn't get a pic from a good angle.

Project 365 - September 2010

We decided on random photos for September. Generally they are taken with my Blackberry so the quality is not always the best.

Not sure which was my favourite for this month

Taken during the TIFF festival in the lobby of the Hyatt hotel

Or this taken at Holt Renfrew's - too bad there was a window!

Toronto Thursday - ESL Class

I've been MIA around Blogland for the last 3 weeks as I was taking a Teaching English as a Second Language class on the weekends, 3 of them from 9-6 Saturday and Sunday. so with working full time there's just been no time to blog or read blogs *sigh*!!

Theere are some sites that consideer this course as a scam, whatever, I got what I wanted out of it and I think most of the class did also.
But I really enjoyed the class, particularly the group of 19 others in my class. The energy and enthusiasm was amazing. We went all very nervous for our final presentations but every single person did an astonding job.
Every one remained engaged and participated in all the lessons. We covered every possible subject from making paper puppets to project management to making kites to learning about mummies.

Here are a few pictures I took on the last day.

Monday's Child - Dominican Republic

Taken on an excursion where we had the best lobster salad I have ever had in my life. When we do our "select the best meals from around the world" they we've ever had, this salad is always on the menu!