Mushrooms – the eternal question. By Natalie Dee.
They're a little of both
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Post-vacation
I’m finally back, after a long flight delay (stupid Calgary weather). I’ve got major jet lag, keep falling asleep, get hungry at odd hours, and have only unpacked half of my bags. But I’m here. If I can get my act together you may even get a new post sometime this weekend!
Yogen Früz, various locations worldwide
I thought Yogen Früz was just in Canada, but this company, which originally started in Toronto, is worldwide! Who knew?
Yogen Früz specializes in taking vanilla or chocolate yogurt and mixing it with a number of toppings including frozen fruit. Growing up, my standard frozen yogurt mix has usually been some sort of berry, but I recently realized that they have a whole bunch of flavours that may not necessarily be advertised on the menu board. Guess which flavour appears in the photo below!
frozen yogurt
Matcha! Yes, they have Japanese green tea as a flavour choice, using actual matcha. I have fallen in love with it. Combined with nonfat or low fat frozen yogurt, it makes a low calorie, tasty treat. It’s not very sweet though, so if you want to try it and have a bit of a sweet tooth, I suggest also getting an additional mix of lychee.
(Bonus points if you can guess in which mall I took the photo!)
Yogen Früz
Various locations worldwide
www.yogenfruz.com
Fun Friday
The Bánh mì song. It’s horribly catchy.
A note from far away
I wasn’t planning on posting while on my trip but I have free internet access right now and a bit of time before dinner, so I thought I would briefly talk about a few impressions.
Mark, from Mad About Morocco, designed a great itinerary based on our preferences and I have much preferred this method of travelling over doing a bus tour with a large group of people.
To me, Morocco is full of contrasts. Old medinas nestled within expanding “new town” modern cities. Dodging donkey poo on the ground while passing a “cyber cafe.” Eating snails cooked in fennel soup, while being offered a Coca-Cola or a Fanta. Satellite dishes sitting on the roofs of small mud homes.
Highlights have included sitting under the stars in the Sahara desert, riding a camel as the sun rose over the sand dunes, and being served mint tea by a Berber man and his son inside their home when we visited their tiny mountain village where they normally don’t have any visitors — let alone ones from a far away country.
I have two more days of travel here and then I’m off to Spain. I take with me vibrant memories, many photos, and a carpet that I was somehow suckered into buying. Oh and a couple of cookbooks that I need to read with a French dictionary by my side as well. 
