Slow Cooker – Jan 8, 2010

I really love the slow cooker. You just cut all the ingredients into medium size pieces and throw them it into the pot, add spices and liquid and turn it on and then forget about it for 6-8hrs. Not that I do not have enough time to cook while I am at home but you never know what comes up. The below example shows it clearly:

On Wednesday morning I prepared a North African Beef Stew with yams and dried plumbs and lots of cumin and garlic as spices. After I started the slow cooker I felt a bad headache coming on and I actually got sick enough that I spend all afternoon in bed – good thing I used the slow cooker. When Jeff came home from work the stew was almost done. Only thing left for him was to prepare the Couscous. I told him to follow the instructions on the package. Unfortunately he used my approach to following instructions and only read half of them. So instead of adding 2/3 cups of couscous to 1 cup of water he added the full package. He thought it didn’t look quite right and almost resorted to making some rice instead. Luckily he first tried to just add more water and in the end the couscous turned out fine – just a “but” more than we needed that night. And the moral of the story – I am a bad influence and Jeff is only responsible to cook rice (using the rice cooker) from now on.

May 2009: Lots of Racing and Finishing up at Kodak

Most May weekends were taken up by kayak racing (see further below). And I didn’t have to be worried about not getting any work done. My last month at Kodak wrapping up. Two more projects had to be complete and I managed to finish the last one and presented it to the Core Team on May 26. All sudden life takes on a different meaning again when you don’t have to worry about how you get all those 5million things done at work, train for racing and try to eat and sleep inbetween. I am looking forward to taking some time off (well – if a job would come up I’ll take it) and train for the World Masters Games in Sydney Oct 2009.

And of course we went for beers again on our last day. Less people but more drunk as the pictures below show (Tim was taking the pictures).

Jeff & I

Carlos

Rene

David

Racing (also check out the BCKC Blog http://burnabylake.com/blog/index.html and Jeff’s surfski blog, links below):

May 2nd: Whatcom Classics on Whatcom Lake in Bellingham WA, 20km – Double Surfski with Jeff (http://surfskibc.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/race-results-may-2-at-bellingham/).

Mid way

May 9th: Fort Langley Classics on Bedwell Channel/Fraser River – Flatwater Marathon in K1. A 20km course with one 100m portage after the first 8km and a tight turn in a little creek on lap 2. Also check out Jeff’s surfski blog for race reports and results/links http://surfskibc.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/race-results-may-9-at-fort-langley-and-may-10-at-deep-cove/

Racing down river – obviously
May 10th: Tour de Indian Arm in Deep Cove, 19km – Double Surfski with Jeff

Pulling of the beach before the race.
 

May 16th: Orca Challenge, Anacortes WA, 39km – Double Surfski with Jeff. The course goes around a couple Island in the San Juan Island Area. No orca sightings but one sealion. For a good race report, rsults and links check here: http://surfskibc.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/race-results-may-16-san-juan-orca-challenge/

May 24th: Jericho Classics, Vancouver BC, 10km – Double Surfski with Jodi. No pictures unfortunately but check out this link: http://surfskibc.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/race-results-may-24-at-jericho/

Race stats: Strong headwind on the way out – nice wave riding back

And Jeff and I did some R&R as well – walking around Burnaby Lake (usually our kayaking training spot) and watching the turtles, geese, ducks and beavers:

 
 
 
 

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