I’m currently reading The Day the World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon. Can you already guess where I’m going with this little post? Well, it was not intentional on my part that I began the book just before the gift-giving season began, but when you put a hold on a book you don’t know when […]
We had some plans…. And now we have new plans! Speaking of plans, you might recall that I used to always share my meal plans on this blog. Well, after falling on to some bad habits with meal planning in the past year(s) I decided to make an accountability partner of sorts by using chalkboard […]
I’m going to keep it pretty simple here and just share what the meal plan is for the week (see the picture below). Things can change of course, but starting off with a meal plan for what will likely be a somewhat busy week feels like a good beginning! And we’re going to take a […]
As the new year approaches I’ve been giving some thought to things I might like to do better. I’ve never been one for setting any serious goals for the new year, but I do like at least reflecting a bit on how the year has gone and what I could improve on the next time […]
Now that we’re back in school mode I’ve been meal-planning again. In the summer I pretty much stop doing this and just see what happens in a day (for better or for worse!). The meals listed here are what we ate, intended to eat, or hope to eat this coming week. It turns out that […]
I made this on a whim with kohlrabi we got in our first installment of this year’s CSA. A trick of mine for making nice uniform julienned style slices for the carrots and kohlrabi is to cut them into 2 inch pieces and then stack them in the top of the food processor with the […]
Last winter I entered a local homebrew competition put on by Short Finger Brewing. I decided I’d enter by brewing a style I’d never heard of, Wheat Wine, which I chose because I had quite a bit of wheat malt extract I wanted to use up and I figured I’d maybe win a prize since […]
First of all, let me say “Happy Thanksgiving” to my American family and friends! I hope the day is wonderful! It has been a long time since I posted, basically a year! In that year I have been working as a high school science teacher at a local private school here in Kitchener. It’s been […]
The next two weeks we will be cooking almost entirely from one cookbook. We received the cookbook from our good friend who works in publishing (and yes, it is very nice to have friends like that!). The cookbook comes from the brilliant cooks behind Cooks Illustrated, a magazine that is known for its recipes being […]
Ever since I began thinking more about the food I eat—and this includes reading books, watching films, following blogs, and lots of cooking and eating—I’ve been rather hung up on the idea of tradition. I find myself lamenting the fact that North America does not seem to have its own traditional cuisine (unless I count […]
