Bake with abandon!
Canada and the US share many things, like Niagara Falls, the Great Lakes and the inability to understand what the French see in Jerry Lewis. Apple pie is another commonality. Yet, despite its place alongside motherhood and baseball, this particular dessert has never symbolized America …
Or Happy Dominion Day if you’re my husband. He hauls this t-shirt out every July 1st and stomps about the house in it explaining how Canada’s the first “Dominion” and we should revel in it, not ignore it. Living with an historian comes in handy …
Half way between high-tech and high-art, I met the ghost of George Carlin. I snapped this photo on Friday at MeMe’s Cafe in New Hamburg, Ontario, a small town between Kitchener-Waterloo, (home of the BlackBerry®) and Stratford (home to Canada’s Shakespearean Festival). Amidst cheese scones, …
Today, I’m swapping blog posts with Gretchen Roberts, an amusing little New World wine writer with hints of berries and peppery undertones. Her blog, Everyday Wine, takes the snob factor out of this potentially pretentious beverage. Since the only Greek wine I’ve had is Retsina, …
Food is a four-letter word beginning with “f”. Unfortunately, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has embraced the other f-word and the Aussies are none too impressed. According to Reuters, Ramsay’s love of the f-bomb has single-handedly pushed Australia’s parliament to consider tightening up their cussing policies …
Photo © by iLoveButter, published under a Creative Commons License. Seems you can teach an old(ish) dog new tricks. Thanks to a recent comment posted by Dana McCauley, cookbook author, chef and food blogger, I learned a new use for my microplane. While I knew …
Garlic. While we love to eat it, we will go to great lengths not to touch it. You can buy rubber tubes that peel the cloves with a roll of the palm, presses that crush the pulp with a mere squeeze, and even pint-sized mandolins …
I wrote my ode to blu tack before I knew about the Haiku Diaries. In this daily blog two authors, Rachel Dickinson and Jenna Schnuer, write about their lives, and readers post comments — all in haiku. I normally don’t like poetry, but there’s something …