Ice Makers & Scarves

Last evening I was at community event where I ate lasagna. It was delicious. For dessert, some members of the Filipino community in Spiritwood made the deserts. I ate one of the most interesting deserts I've ever had and it was damn good. It was called ginataang bilo bilo and here's how Celeste Noche describes it on her blog:
"Deriving from the word “bilog,” meaning, “round,” bilo bilo contains chewy rice balls mixed with cooking bananas (saba) or plantains, a root vegetable (such as ube, sweet potato, or taro), coconut milk, jackfruit, and tapioca pearls."
You can find her commentary on some other must-try Filipino desserts at https://food52.com/blog/17101-12-filipino-desserts-you-need-to-know-about-try. 
The bilo bilo was served warm last night in little cups and it was explosion of textures and flavours that was bizarre and wonderful. 


Spirtiwood has a growing Filipino community and what a community they are! They are often found participating in community events, working hard in our businesses and delighting our tastebuds with their cooking. One warm night last summer I was walking home from a friend's house and as I approached my house, my neighbour came out into his front yard to ask me if I'd like to buy some fresh spring rolls they had just made in a work bee. Yes, I most certainly did. And yes, they were delicious.  If you're interested in having them cater an event for you, you can contact Noli Pano at 306-619-9145.

*Expert Tip: This isn't hair related but its been a real game changer. My neighbour taught me that the delicate, filipino spring rolls are not meant to be deep fat fried but instead just cooked in a pan with a little bit of oil much like how you would "would fry an egg" he said. And you just continue rolling them until they're cooked through. 

Wow. I am getting wildly off track. What I've been getting at is that at this event last evening, I finally purchased an ice maker for at the salon. Now, I'm not sure I've ever mentioned this before, but theNines is licensed. No, I probably haven't mentioned that before. It is though! And finally after having that license for almost 2 years, I will be able to offer a variety of beverages that really needed ice in them. When I took the ice maker out of the box, I discovered that its copper to match the decor in the salon so obviously we were meant to find each other! I picked up some soda water, tonic, and colas in the mini cans (which in case you read my last post and need to know so you can sleep tonight, a Top Knot scrunchie can fit aroudn three mini pop cans), stocked the fridge with them, brought the ice maker in and did some laps in the salon trying to figure out where to put it. 

After the decision was made to put the ice maker as far from hair bits as possible, I put away the snow shovel at the salon. I also made sure the Paul Mitchell dry shampoos are in stock 'cause nothing announces true summer's arrival like greasy lake hair. In fact, we've 4 different kinds of dry shampoo to suit every greasy head (including one that's got a brown tint for brunettes. It can even help disguise roots a little)  Even though it's not quite that season, it's coming up soon, Reader! Let's start readying ourselves! 
If there's a specific cocktail you'd like to see on our menu for summer, comment below! If you'd like your hair to be less greasy, pop in for some dry shampoo. We got that! Or book in for a shampoo and blow dry. We do that! Need someone to help set up your new ice maker 'cause you don't want to read the directions yourself? We don't do that, but Taylor, my lovely co-worker, does! If you've lost a scarf at the salon over the winter, we've got those! 

xoxo, Rachelle