Yummy Coffee at 2 percent Jazz, Panettone and Pumpkin pie

Hello,

I discovered a coffee shop a few months ago. I had been to it once or twice about 15 years ago and then it moved locations and I rediscovered it all over gain. It's 2% Jazz. When I was there I snapped some photos of things that caught my eye (Their caramel 1/2 cafe latte was divine by the way).

I was greeted with their inviting chalkboard.

This photo above the washroom caught my eye (I love her hair).

Aren't these coffee warmer sleeves adorable?

I grew up eating Panettone and it's my favourite Christmas treat. It's a white bread with sweet dried fruit inside. There are many variations on this and sometimes you get raisins. On occasion we buy this delectable treat around Christmas time but this year we couldn't find a good brand we liked. Once bakery we went too was charging an outrageous price so we decided to make our own this year. My sister volunteered to make it and we ate it throughout the Christmas holidays.

Homemade Panettone

The other divine treat I had over the holidays was my mom's divine Pumpkin pie without crust. When she does make a crust it's gluten free and is so tasty. I was watching calories though so she left out the crust.

Yummy Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie

Next up I'll post more about my divine new coffee, Cafe Lib, Green Tea Latte frother and divine Gluten free cupcakes.

Michelle

Some of my Christmas 2010 Outings

Hello,

I was on holidays for the last 3 weeks and it was glorious to not think about schedules etc. I did a lot of fun things around town and went to Vancouver for the day.

This is part 1 of my photos:

This first one isn't that exciting but my family and I went to Vancouver on December 21st and my sister decided to bring along one of our cute Christmas lights. We stopped for lunch outside this store so she took it out of her bag and placed it on our table so it would feel Christmas like. Plus Salvation Army was nearby playing Christmas music.

See the wee flickering light in the centre

Later on that day we decided to go into Starbucks for a nice hot cocoa. After 4.5 hours of walking everywhere we figured we deserved a treat. This is the regular hot cocoa and we even got to try a sample of their mint hot cocoa which was divine. My newest addiction though is the Salty Caramel Hot Chocolate. It's pure heaven if you love hot chocolate.

Starbucks Hot Cocoa (notice the flickering light again)

Just after Christmas we got to see the beautiful decorated Christmas trees at the Empress. Every year different companies can make a donation and submit a Christmas tree. They are then up for a few weeks for the public to enjoy. There were quite a few beautiful ones so I had about 3 favourites. It's called Festival of Trees.

I can't remember all the companies but here are my photos of a few of them:

I think this was by Pine Lighting and the lights were amazing.

This was by The Papery (a fun shop with great stationary) I loved the wood carved ornaments.

This is a close up of one of the wood carved ornaments. The detail is incredible.

The Root Cellar tree (The produce here is wonderful)

I call this the blue tree and think it was done by a packing company.

For more Festival of Tree photos check out this link.

So I have been begging for a milk frother but since I don't drink milk I wanted something to whip up my soy milk. I got a new frother and here is a Cafe Lib drink I made for myself. It works well with the brand of soy milk I use.

Cafe Lib with frothed soy milk, the whipped texture was surprisingly foamy

That's all for now, next up I'll have photos of the Gingerbread houses.

Hope you are all having a good week.

Michelle