Beerfest 2017: Coriander Edition
This was the first festival I attended in the rain — the rain was very welcome after an extensive dry spell so I wasn’t about to complain and I came Continue Reading →
Category Archives: food
What is it about Mango?
Maybe I am showing my age, but when I hear whispers of “Mango…,” a part of my brain leaps to the SNL character played by Chris Kattan, the running gag Continue Reading →
Where did June go?
I swear it was just May last week and yet my birthday is around the corner. Yesterday some asshat posted a “six months to Christmas!” cartoon. A year ago I Continue Reading →
Back to the Beer Fest
I missed the Great Canadian Beer Fest last year — Shawn and I couldn’t justify the cost and didn’t want to volunteer — and this year I decided I would Continue Reading →
Feliz Navidnachos
As a kid, Kentucky Fried Chicken was part of our Christmas tradition — a big bucket of greasy chicken was our lunchtime treat. It’s been a long time since KFC Continue Reading →
Sweet Treats
Today’s festive flotsam is all about making candies and chocolates. Some of these I have made and some I have yet to try but they all seem simple. The first Continue Reading →
Small garden, small bounty
This year’s garden was pared back from past years; only what I thought could grow was planted. For the most part, this was a sound plan; the garden has been Continue Reading →
Fieldwork
When I was quite young (maybe 5 or 6 years old), my mother took me along with some of our extended family to pick strawberries in the u-pick fields on Continue Reading →
Rules We Eat By
Rarely a day goes by when there isn’t a study released about what we should and shouldn’t eat. Rarely a week goes by that I don’t think, “I should be Continue Reading →
December 12th Royal Christmas Pudding
The Christmas pudding (or plum pudding) that we are familiar with today dates back to the Victorian era (and much earlier if you count all the variations) but there is Continue Reading →