still here

keys made by martin

poppies (detail)

random door

well, random to me anyway.

cocktail of the week

Behold! A lime pomtini!

vodka
bit of Grand Marnier
some pomegranate juice
and some lime juice
shaken with ice and strained into glass, more pom added for colour effect
garnished with lime peel twist, which is loads of fun to make (yes, winter in vancouver...I need to get out more).

pan-fried sablefish with anchovy shallot butter - mmmmm!

Bless the sablefish (black cod if you insist), for it is a truly magnificent fish that is most forgiving of my somewhat average seafood cooking skills (I am either too impatient and pull the fish off early, or get distracted by mixing martinis and leave it too long); no matter with the sablefish - it tastes good whatever you do to it. And really, what's not to love about anchovy butter?

train window painting #2

train window painting #1

untitled landscape (detail)

I haven't been painting much lately (I haven't actually been doing much of anything lately, when I think about it) so this is an old one that I've been looking at in an attempt to motivate myself to start something new on mylar. It's a very tricky surface to paint on, the acrylic doesn't want to stay put, but if you keep moving it around and scraping and prodding and scratching, it can produce these fantastically organic-looking textures.