Miss Delish

“Holy crap, Wayne Newton’s hitting on Mom!”

Name that movie.

Yes, as I mentioned the other day, I’m heading to Las Vegas this week for my Mom’s 50th Birthday. My Mom and her high school friends always wanted to go on a trip together and my Mom has never been to Vegas so about a year ago I started planning the trip.

What better way to spend your 50th Birthday, right?

I am really excited to be able to go as well. Mr. Delish and I have wanted to go to Vegas for a long time, but we really aren’t gamblers so we kind of put it on the back burner. Now that the trip is planned, I am really excited to go down there and have the whole Vegas experience.

That’s right folks, we’ve never been to Las Vegas.

We decided to stay at Treasure Island, mostly just because of it’s central location. It’s close to the big fun mall, as well as some of the other main Casinos like Mirage and Caesar’s Palace.

We don’t have a whole lot planned but we did plan one dinner with everyone, and we took a recommendation from a friend of ours to try Roy’s Hawaiian. We chose Roy’s because it isn’t too fancy and the food sounds really fun and different. Everyone loves seafood as well so it’s perfect.

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Then some of the ladies are going to one of the Shania Twain concerts over at Caesar’s Palace.

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And Mr. Delish and I are going to go party at one of the Rehab Pool Parties at the Hard Rock Hotel.

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Some things I am really excited for:

• Sun
• Exploring
• Dining out
• Hanging out with good company
• Shopping
• Blender drinks
• Drinks in general

I will be back next week with photos and highlights, but first, I want your advice:

Miss Delish asks:

Have you been to Vegas before? Tell me all about it!

What are some of the Vegas must do’s? Activities, shopping, restaurants, sightseeing ect?

Good Morning lovelies!

A big “Happy Friday” goes out to you all! And a very Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful Mama’s out there

What do you have planned for the weekend!? I hope all the Mommies out there are being pampered and get to relax for once.

I am going to be making dinner for my Mama and the family and the rest of the time I think I will just relax and enjoy some time with my Mom. She has asked for a roast beef dinner with all the fixings because she doesn’t like making that herself. Ha! Well fair enough, its her one day to choose and I am happy to do it. I will try to take some photos along the way so you can see me make a complete roast beef dinner with Yorkshire puddings and all the rest of the yummy stuff you have along side the beef.

I have a long step by stepper ahead of me here so I am gonna cut the chit chat for today. I want to get some advice on Vegas so I will do more of a chit chatty post early next week.

Okay let’s go!

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Good afternoon everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful day so far!

I really hope it is nice and sunny wherever you are! It has been pretty nice in Vancouver the last few days. We had a gorgeous weekend and it has been pretty hot and sunny since then.

What have you all been up to lately?

I haven’t been doing much cooking lately which is obvious due to my pathetic amount of posting the last couple weeks! I have been a little preoccupied because we have a trip to Vegas coming up next week. It’s for my Momma’s 50th birthday and a bunch of her friends from high school are coming as well. I have pretty much been planning the whole thing, which I love. I love being organized and having copious amounts of lists. I am also the queen of excel spreadsheets, love ‘em.

I am only slightly embarrassed to say that I researched which places near our hotel have good happy hours and have the info recorded in my phone.

The other reason I have been preoccupied is that we got invited to see a friend DJ at one of the Rehab Pool Parties while we’re in Vegas. I’m really excited to go but that also means I have to wear a bikini which is kind of scary. Let’s just say this whole food blogger gig has taken a toll on the old bod.

I am usually fairly active, I eat healthy for the most part and I try to hit the gym as often as possible, but I decided to amp it up a notch and I started doing Insanity.

I know, I’m crazy.

Trust me, I am reminded of that fact every time Shaun T, tells me to “dig deeper.” Although it is a super crazy workout and I am sweating like crazy after, I have been having lots of fun with it and found myself sticking with it more than any other workout I tried.

So in a nutshell, that is why I have been kind of MIA.

So now onto a better topic, donuts!

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Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Tuesday so far.

I have been MIA for a week or so! No particular excuse just life has been busy and I haven’t been cooking much unfortunately.

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Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you are all having a fabulous Wednesday so far!

I am not going to do my regular chit chat thing today, I will just get right into it!

So a few weeks ago I came across this gourmet food subscription service when I was browsing the web. After looking into it a little further I realized that it was being run by a local gourmet food shop called Well Seasoned.  Along with their food shop, they also host cooking classes taught by local chefs. They always have lots of new events up and coming so if you’re in the lower mainland you should definitely check out their site for all the fun stuff they have in store!

Like I said, they recently started a gourmet food subscription box called “Missing Ingredient.” When I saw it I really wanted to share it with you guys and lucky for me, Angie over at Missing Ingredient was kind enough to send me a sample April box to try! I got it a week or so ago and I took some photos so I can show you all how it works.

Here we go!

The box is packaged really well, they put lots of shredded brown paper in the box to prevent anything from breaking or moving around.

Hmm….what’s going to be in the box!?

find out what’s in the box!