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Food Goals for 2012

On December 31, 2011 · 2 Comments

Every year I try to set food-related goals for myself. They can be pretty boring like eat more vegetables or force myself to be more creative (and delicious) like make more charcuterie.

Over the past few years I’ve become increasingly fearless in the kitchen and that it makes it harder to come up with goals [...]

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Bacon Cream Cheese

On November 22, 2011 · 2 Comments

A little while ago the folks at The Siren Group invited me to an event featuring a new product called Skillet Bacon Spread. Given my love for bacon I was intrigued but unable to attend, so the folks at The Siren Group were kind enough to send some of the product [...]

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A New Look and Food Goals Revisited

On November 13, 2011 · 17 Comments

Well things look a bit different around here, don’t they?  Truth be told when I redesigned my site back whenever that was, I was pretty much immediately bored with the colour scheme.  But I decided to live with it for a while because updating a website’s look is a lot of work.  A few months [...]

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How To Quickly and Easily Dry Herbs

On October 14, 2011 · 5 Comments

This summer the herbs in my balcony garden thrived.  Perhaps the most bountiful herb was oregano. Problem is that I RARELY use fresh oregano.  Trust me when I say I tried integrating it into a bunch of recipes but I couldn’t keep up with how fast that stuff grew.

Now that [...]

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Preserving the Goodness

On October 3, 2011 · 2 Comments

When I moved back to Toronto 4 (eek!) years ago I decided to try canning.  I liked the idea of controlling the amount of sugar in my jam as well as being able to use the freshest local produce and trying unique flavour combinations.  Canning can be a lot of work [...]

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On The Town: goLocal with the LCBO

On September 29, 2011 · 3 Comments

I’ve blogged a few times about my visits to Niagara to sample some of Ontario’s best wines.  Niagara is a great day trip or weekend getaway for those in Southwestern Ontario and I always feel lucky to have such a great area so closeby.  I was recently invited by the

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Savour Stratford 2011 – Reminder

On September 19, 2011 · 2 Comments

If you’ve been reading my blog for the past year or so, you’re likely aware that I kind of love Stratford, ON.  Stratford is known these days amongst the international teeny bopper set as the hometown of Justin Bieber but Stratford has been holding it down for YEARS as a destination [...]

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Balcony Garden Update 2

On September 9, 2011 · 5 Comments

My balcony garden has been a fun experiment filled with ups and downs.  Some things flourished and others not so much.  Then throw in factors like crazy windstorms and you have a whole new set of challenges.

Let’s start with the good….

Having herbs at the ready is one of the [...]

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Blueberry-Peach Lemonade

On August 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Does anyone else feel like summer is rapidly slipping away?  In the morning there’s a bit of a chill in the air.  The days are becoming shorter.  The nights are chilly… folks, fall is around the corner.  And while I love fall, I’m not quite ready to give up frolicking in [...]

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Balcony Garden – Update

On July 20, 2011 · 7 Comments

The balcony garden (for the most part) continues to flourish!

I have strawberries!  Granted, not enough to do anything with but snack, but still, strawberries! The first one that I ate was on the watery side but subsequent berries have been really sweet and pretty divine.

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