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If i didn't already have such a cute laptop bag, I would so get this.

Telegraph Hill Laptop Bag from ModCloth

Jamaican Jerk Chicken

This recipe is not for the faint of heart. I don't exaggerate. I love all things spicy (come on, I am from the West Indies), but this one will set my eyes and nose watering and my tongue burning in a moment. Nevertheless, don't let that dissuade you from trying the ultra-deliciousness better known as jerk chicken.

This is not a completely traditional take on the recipe. For one, I used a bottled jerk seasoning. Although I am a proponent of making things fresh whenever possible, the brand I buy is pretty great all by itself, so I opted not to reinvent the wheel. Secondly, I leave the skin of the chicken on. Fat is flavour y'all and I figure if you eat healthy most of the time, this shouldn't hurt once in a while. Lastly, because I now live in a city where winter is 10 out of the 12 months of the year pretty much, I used my oven instead of a grill, which makes for a really juicy jerk chicken. Recipe after the jump.

Jerk Chicken

4 sets of leg (leg/thigh), separated, skin left intact. 
2 tsp Grace Jerk Seasoning
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
1-2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 tsp olive oil
Juice of one lemon/lime

Trim and wash chicken with lemon juice and water and pat dry. Combine all other ingredients in bowl and mix well. Leave in fridge overnight or at least 3 hrs to marinate.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Place chicken in glass baking dish. Bake chicken for 3 hrs, basting occasionally. When chicken is almost finished, turn on the broiler and broil until skin is nicely tanned and crisp. Makes 4 servings.

Serve with rice and peas and fried plantains. All ingredients are to taste so feel free to mix things up!

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Ode to a Stand Mixer

I dream about your shiny beauty
And if you weren't so bloody, blinking, expensive you would have been mine by now.
Alas, I shall save and wait
Until...

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Pretty Little Things

I love wrap dresses. They are pretty and flattering and you can adjust them easily to how you want them to fit. Thing is, I'm not really a dress over pants kind of gal. I like long tops over pants, but when they go past the knees they start looking a little awkward. Most of the wrap dresses I've laid eyes upon were exactly that and that's why when I found this dress, I was pretty excited. It's affordable as dresses go, and quite versatile. Best thing about it is that it ships to Canada! A double bonus!

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This Month's Reads

Ah I really am much too tired for gab tonight so straight on to this month's roll. Athol Fugard's Tsotsi, Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Oh, and of course some Asterix comics, because that's how I roll.

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