WBBR PUB NIGHT FUNDRAISER - SUNDAY August 25th - Get your tickets NOW!

FINALLY!!! The much anticipated event of the year is here!!!

 

 

 

• Sunday August 25th, 2013
• Burnaby Firefighters Club, 6515 Bonsor Avenue, Burnaby
• 4pm - 8pm
• Silent Auction & Raffle

 

Everyone had such a fabulous time last year and it was a huge success.

We are grateful to everyone for your support of this event and for your support of WBBR throughout the year.

This year we have had several dogs in our care with very serious illnesses and your support is needed now more than ever.

 

Proceeds from the event will go directly to WBBR to assist with the Medical Dogs in our care.
 

We are now accepting donations for Pub Night. This is a great way to showcase your business to our many valued supporters. If you would like to contribute or make a donation to Pub Night please contact us and let us know. 

 

 

We are very honoured to have WestJet be a supporter again this year! Thank you WestJet! 

 

 

WESTJET is the preferred airline of WBBR Boxers.  WOOF! We only fly with WestJet!!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! 

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS NOW before we are sold out!

How Many Tickets?

1 $25.00 CAD 2 $50.00 CAD 3 $75.00 CAD 4 $100.00 CAD 5 $125.00 CAD 6 $150.00 CAD

For more information please visit our website www.wbbr.ca 

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Gluten Free Crescent Rolls with a twist

I have been looking for some bread or roll recipes to make and I stumbled across this awesome recipe of Crescent Rolls! 

Ok so maybe the Pilsbury Dough Boy didn't show up but in my books they were pretty darn good.

If you are planning on making these please keep in mind that the recipe asks that you the chill the dough in a ball in the fridge for at least 2-3 hours.  This will help you when you go to roll it out and it wont' be as sticky.



Chill the dough in the fridge

The recipe is a small recipe that only makes 8 Crescent rolls.  It doesn't tell you how thick to roll your dough, so I just rolled mine about 1/4 - 1/2" thick.  I found that if I rolled it too thin it would fall apart too easily.  Maybe its because I only chilled it for 2 hours?

I rolled out the dough and cut them into 8 big triangles.

(sorry I can't explain why our leftover chicken dinner is also in this picture!! lol) >>>>>


I added a bit of a twist to mine.  I rolled inside one triangle a cut up, peeled apple with a touch of brown sugar and a couple of Velata chocolate bits.

 

 

 

 

You can add Velata chocolate bits (cut up or add chocolate chips)

I then sprayed the cookie sheet with Coconut Oil spray (got at Trader Joes') and put in the oven.

 

The recipe calls for 20 - 30 minutes.  I guess it depends on how big your rolls are.  I started with 15 minutes and then I brushed melted butter on the top.  Then I put them back in the oven for another 15 minutes.  The tops really weren't as golden brown as I had hoped but when I checked them at the 30 minute mark I could tell the bottoms were getting crispy.

 

Once cooled you can drizzle melted Velata chocolate on top. 

 

All in all they were quite tasty.  Matt loved them and we both agreed that it is best warm out of the oven.  We had one this morning and it was still quite enjoyable but if you have a toaster oven it would be nice to have it heated up.

 

MY RATING:  7.5 out of 10

 

Not the Pilsbury Dough Boy but not as much junk in them.  Plus for Gluten free, they are pretty darn good in my books.

 



If you have a Gluten free recipe you would like me to test out, please forward it to me.  I would love to test it in my kitchen. 



Greek Style Garlic Chicken & Lemon Butter Roasted Potatos - Review

This recipe has been sampled on many occasions.  Every time I serve this dish it's an absolute hit!

This past weekend we were busy entertaining.  We had guests over on Saturday and Sunday night for dinner.

Why not?  we love entertaining and the weather was perfect to spark up the BBQ!

GREEK STYLE GARLIC CHICKEN BREASTS

 

It is the best flavor when you have time to marinade it overnight.

I love serving both of these dishes because they are both Gluten Free!!


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GREEK STYLE OVEN ROASTED POTATOES WITH LEMON BUTTER

 

 

Some of my guests are also dairy free.  For the potatoes I made two dishes and one,  I substituted Olive Oil and eliminated the cheese. 

 

Simply delicious!!!

Both recipes get two thumbs up!!!

MY RATING:  10 Out of 10!!!

Enjoy!!! Let me know what you think :)  Would love to hear from you!!

If there are any recipes that you want me to try and rate, feel free to pop me a note:  ljenniferkaiser@gmail.com 

June's Velata Recipe - Raspberry Brownies

I have Gluten free recipe options if you are looking for Gluten free, let me know.

June's Scent of the Month "BananaBerry"

We are in love with this scent.  Truly its so delicious!! Smells great throughout my whole house!  I still have a few left if you're interested let me know!  Or you can order it directly from my site www.vancouverlovescandles.ca

It's one that you will definitely want to stock up on!!!

Gluten Free Chewy Chocolate Brownies with Walnuts & Coconut Oil - REVIEW

I wanted to try making some recipes with Coconut Oil as I found a great deal on a huge tub of it at Costco.  Its the real deal.  The Organic Coconut Oil.  We all know how amazing Coconut Oil is for us.

After searching on the net I found a few recipes and thought I would try them out.

This recipe sounded fabulous!

I took a shortcut and used a Brownie mix like the recipe called for.  I might have used the wrong Brownie mix?  I used the Gluten Free Brownie Mix from Trader Joes. 

The bake time in the recipe says 20-25 minutes but I found that it took almost 20-25 minutes longer.  Of course I checked it each time after about 10 minutes.

The consistency seems to be a sponge like and not so much like a dense Brownie.  It seemed more like a chocolate cake than a Brownie.  It is very good and tasty but wasn't what I was expecting.  I lined it with Parchment paper instead so maybe that had something to do with it? 

It is yummy don't get me wrong.  Matt and I both really like it!

It looked great coming out of the oven and I highly recommend eating it right away with a scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream!!!

MY RATING:  6 out of 10

If you have any Gluten Free with or without Coconut Oil and would like me to test out and rate, feel free to forward to me:  ljenniferkaiser@gmail.com



Is Chivalry Dead? Or Are We Just a Rude Society?

This morning, just like any other morning I am driving into work.  I pull into the parkade behind a car and he stops just on the other side of the gate.  OK he's obviously concerned about security issues and, although my parking decal is clearly displayed in my rear view, and my window is open, and my hand is out with my garage door clicker that I'm frantically clicking, he still doesn't realize that I also park there.  I get the security issue.  But come on, its 9am on a weekday and the cars are piling up behind me. 

I get inside and I park and then I head towards the stairs.  The same guy is ahead of me again.  He walks thru the door, and it literally slams in my face as I almost go to walk thru.  The door falls right on my arm as I try to quickly grab the door and leaves a nice little bruise.  Geesh!  REALLY???!!  he saw me.  He looked right at me when we both approached the door. 

Maybe my title on this entry is wrong.  Maybe it's not "chivalry" that I should be talking about.  Yes its 2013 and women have equal rights.  But I admit I like it when guys hold doors open for me.  Hell  let's be completely honest......I like it when people hold doors open for me.  I don't expect it but I think its nice just to be courteous to each other.  I like when people are nice to each other!  And find that there are way too many rude people these days for my liking.

We continue walking up the stairs and I'm still right behind him.  Second set of doors coming up.  He sees me (still) and he goes thru the door, and he pushes it really wide open this time just so that I can get out behind him without getting hit with the door.  He didn't "quite" hold it open for me just opened it wider for me to squeeze thru.  So I say "THANK YOU!!" and he turns and gives me this weird look like I've got two heads. 

This isn't the first time its happened to me.  One time at Starbucks I had my hands full of coffee for an office meeting, and a lady walked right in front of me, cutting off my path and out the door ahead of me.  Me being naive and thinking that she saw me struggling with my hands full and she was coming get the door for me.  Nope!  UGH  Coffee all over me and my nail ripped off by the door.  She didn't even look back, let alone apologize.   At least the people in Starbucks stopped to help me. Nice people there.

We have become a society where when you accidentally park 10 minutes prior to allowed parking time on Davie Street, people pull up and scream disgusting and vulgar words at you.  A society where in the same situation a guy on a bike kicks and punches your car while screaming obscenities about what he is going to do to you!  Yes its true it happened!

Everyone seems to be in a rush.  But are we in such a rush that we have no time to be kind to others?  For those of you who know me, I am very friendly to other people.  I try to help others when I can.  I smile at people when I pass them and they make eye contact.  And believe it or not I get a lot of weird looks when I do that.  I hold doors open for people if I see their hands are full, or if they are walking behind me.  I wave people in front of me in rush hour traffic if its safe and if someone lets me in I wave back.  I say please and thank you and bless you if someone sneezes. (and I cover my mouth when I sneeze - that's another blog for another time!) I say excuse me if I sneeze or if I need to get by someone.  Is it so much to ask for others to do the same?

These days communication is lacking on so many levels.  I was taught in HR that the source of most conflicts is lack of communication.  That's a huge part of it.  Working with teams is a frustration in itself.  There is lack of ownership, and then there is too much ownership.  Have you ever worked on a team project and you have someone who always uses the words "me, mine, my, I?" but yet its a project that the whole team has ownership in and the whole team contributes?  I'm all for taking credit as a team, its people who take credit for themselves that drive me nuts.   People who don't communicate with other team members before they make decisions that affect the team, makes other team members feel alienated and left out of the group.  It's frustrating to say the least.  All this really boils down to being courteous and considerate doesn't it?  Take credit where due and don't where its not.

I was just outside for lunch and saw a man that was standing on the corner.  He was mumbling street names to himself and pointing like he was lost.  Seemed apparent to me he was lost anyhow.  So I stopped and said "Excuse me are you lost? do you need directions?" and he laughed at me and told me no, he is a glass contractor and trying to figure out where the glass is that he needs to change.  But then he wouldn't leave me along and stop talking to me and started following me around.  I think he thought I was hitting on him!! LOL this happens to me a lot.  My husband laughs at me for this reason.  But yet I will still continue to talk to people and be nice and try to help.  I just think the world could always use more nice don't you????