easy rice flour crackers

these crackers are really good! i will be making these all the time. they are really crispy, which is important to me when it comes to crackers. parchment paper makes this whole thing really easy

rice flour crackers

1 and 1/2 cups brown rice flour
2/3 cup cooked brown rice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup olive oil
about 1/2 cup water

preheat oven to 375
mix up all the ingredients except the water in a big bowl. add water until you can make a dough. (i needed 1/2 cup water)
knead onto a floured surface a few times, and roll into a big ball
put the ball between two pieces of parchment paper, and roll dough between the paper until it's really thin. the thinner the better
place the parchment paper/dough onto a baking sheet, and take off the top parchment paper
score the dough into little squares
bake for 20-25 minutes or until the dough is browned on the bottom.
let them cool before you separate them

hotel review: hometel, st. john's

growing up, we stayed in hotels a lot. sometimes we would be in a hotel for a few months when we moved to a new city. sometimes we would be in a different hotel every night as my parents tried to show us as much of the world as possible. i grew up loving hotels. my sister and i would rate the hotels based on things like continental breakfast, indoor pool, toiletries in the bathroom. now, j and i stay in hotels pretty often. we like to get out of town at least every other week. while we definitely prefer camping, newfoundland makes it hard by being super cold. all. the. time. 

this weekend we stayed at hometel in st. john's. this place looks like a row of fancy townhouses, but hotel rooms have been created inside. the rooms are nice, bright, modern looking.

price: reasonable for downtown st. john's. we paid around $150 per night
bathroom: there was only a standup shower. water pressure was weak.
pool: none!! no hot tub, nothing
continental breakfast: super minimal. toast, cold hard-boiled eggs, apples, yogurt, cereal.
tv: lots of good channels (i like to catch up on reality shows during hotel visits-very important!)
location: awesome. it's a nice little hike to signal hill from the hotel, and it is a five minute walk from downtown and lots of restaurants, bars.
parking: awesome. lots of it. no extra charge

how we met

we met at school. it was frosh week. we were at a beach outside halifax for a frosh bbq. we ended up sitting on the same towel. he said i should rest my back against his. for comfort. like a chair. and that felt one hundred percent good, even though i had only met him 20 minutes ago. four years later he asked me to marry him close to that spot we first met. we did not take a simple path from meeting to marrying....

rings

the other day we got all our rings in the mail. the best mail ever. i had been designing my ring over email and telephone with the designer, so i didn't know exactly what i would get. it is very different from my initial idea, but so much better. j's ring is very simple and beautiful. and then j's niece sent him a ring to give me. it is made of gold coloured beads. she saw it at a craft fair, and insisted her mother buy it so that j could give it to me on our wedding day. it brings tears to my eyes, it is so sweet! i will definitely be wearing both my new rings on the big day.

happy friday

(me and jenny enjoying the sun in paris)

i am wishing for some sunny weather. it has been a long, cold, rainy week. but our wedding rings arrived in the mail today! it was so exciting, and we immediately tried them on. they fit perfectly. j wants to wear his now, but we decided to wait until the wedding. i am looking forward to making some vegetarian meals this weekend, and visiting our sauna.