I’ve never been a big fan of substitutes. Ironically a couple weeks ago I was a substitute. Well, maybe not ironically, since the position I held for two days at a local school wasn’t a ton of fun, and I didn’t feel like a fan of myself. Really I shouldn’t complain; I’m grateful to have had […]
I spent much of this past Lent reading. Madame and I also enjoyed The Hunger Games series as audiobooks, which is definitely one of the best readings I’ve ever heard. Strangely the hunting aspect of The Hunger Games was paralleled in a much more personal way in one of my main lenten reads, Tovar Cerulli’s The […]
After 10 days of fermentation I racked the Sappy K-Wee Heavy. (For non-brewing readers: racking involves siphoning the fermented beer from one vessel to another to get the beer off of the sediment, or lees, at the bottom of the vessel. It helps make to clarify the beer and in cases of longer fermentation it […]
I’ve told myself it would be cool to do a week of vegan eating at some point. I always assume it will be in the summer when fresh local veggies are coming out of my ears. However, I hadn’t anticipated that we’d be given a vegan cookbook. The cookbook we were given is The Oh […]
Amber and Malty… “Amber and malty,” I thought to myself as visions, aromas, and flavors of a Wee Heavy clouded my mind. Lately this has been the style of beer that most appeals to me. It’s funny because for a long time—isn’t this true for most craft beer lovers—all I would buy was IPAs, the […]
Sap Season A couple weeks ago when the weather here briefly warmed up we chatted a bit with our neighbors about tapping a couple of their sugar maple trees. I had dreams. Not dreams of maple syrup, but of sap beer. They kindly agreed and so using taps (spiles as they are called—maybe you’ve read Catching […]
The idea for this sandwich has been bouncing around in my mind for the last month. It was what I setting out to make a week ago but instead diverged a bit and wound up with the sandwich featured in my previous post, The Beet Goes On…. Anyhow, I finally made the originally planned version today […]
We are so eager for new growth, sunshine, warm and fragrant breezes, and fresh-from-the-earth produce. Soon. These things will happen, we just need to wait a little longer. In the meantime it is important to find a few more ways to make the remaining produce that has been stored all winter a little bit more […]
Finally! It has taken soooooooooooooooooooo long! None of us has any memory that compares to this past Winter. Even the old timers seem a bit shell shocked. And yet Winter is quickly forgotten on a wonderful sunny Spring day when the kids in the neighborhood all emerge from their homes at the sound of other […]
You need to make some tzatziki. It is so, so, so good, bursting with an amazing fresh flavor, and very easily made with almost entirely local ingredients. That’s why we like it at our house. It even featured as part of last year’s Easter feast. So get some local yogurt, an Ontario greenhouse cucumber (if […]