It's springtime, and even though I might have a bad back, I'm a die-hard gardener. Some of the most simple and rewarding treasures of a garden are the ones taken for granted. Possibly because they are so easy to grow they are often over-stepped. Take ...
I have to admit, when I first flipped through it, I wasn’t totally taken by PeTA’s new Vegan College Cookbook. It was lacking photography, and well, real food. Then I realized, I made it through college already and I did it with market and ...
Who knew? When I saw that reminder on Twitter, I couldn't help myself but to think that I may not have been celebrating enough lately. How about you? Life a little busy? Preoccupied with everything? I had a pineapple sitting, waiting for someone to enjoy it, so ...
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Usually I'd be eating something like this in the dead of winter not the first of Spring. I've been doing my best to enjoy a salad every day, plus, just posted about digging up those Sunchokes, for goodness sake! But it's snowing!! Not a lot, but ...
It's April and finally graced with a nice day which was missing the typical showers. I got excited and took to my garden to harvest the first of my fruits of labour. (Well, some baby carrots were first, but they weren't exactly, you know, edible.) The first things to come from gardens are ...
When I was a kid I used to spend every school holiday up with my grandparents. They lived at the "cottage", but to a kid it was paradise, specially for a city kid. They had killer tobogganing hills, skating, snowmobiles and nature as far ...
Is this an *official* Hoilday yet? If anyone's counting, it should be judging by the celebrations around this house. There were stuffed crêpes for breakfast, multigrain blueberry pancakes for lunch and our favourite, savoury pancakes will be headlining dinner. Packed with ...
I had this realization at the grocery store the other day. It's something I've obviously not given enough thought. I mean, I know why people have food restrictions and I know that there are many reasons. There are people in my family are allergic ...
I love citrus. Yet, I was still hesitant to try preserving lemons. Would the salty sour ruin my citrus? That fresh lemon scent so perfect for summery drinks and puckery desserts was, making it tough to imagine the final flavour. I didn't care. It's citrus season, ...
It's the end of the year, time to clean up. Clean out the fridge and my posting draft folder. A little while back, I couldn't help but over hear an online friend of mine, Nicole from Pinch My Salt, describe her clean out ...
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