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Perfect book for the perfect place 11 Aug 2013 | 06:47 pm
While off on our canoe camping trip to Georgian Bay in July, I had the perfect book to read. This has not always been the situation: I have problems in my hum drum daily life when I don't have a wort...
Summer Refreshment 8 Jul 2013 | 05:14 am
I recently returned from one of the most beautiful places on earth: Ah, Georgian Bay, how I love you. (That's Little McCoy Island pictured above. We canoed out and camped on nearby Big McCoy Island l...
Goodbye old friend 13 Jun 2013 | 09:58 pm
My old toaster finally died. This toaster has been something of a minor miracle in toaster-dom: I inherited it from the previous tenants when I sublet an apartment in the summer of (drum roll please) ...
new(ish) toy 28 May 2013 | 05:25 am
It'll be salad season soon and that means salad dressing. For someone whose favorite food is salad, I have a conflicted relationship with salad dressing. I had a basic formula that usually turned out ...
Soup to soothe the stir-crazy soul 20 Apr 2013 | 04:38 pm
It is April 20th and there is (albeit a light dusting of) snow. This is not welcome when I'm at the "ugh" stage of the year in relation to preparing dinner. Spring may have officially come, but I'm ...
New Cookbooks 13 Apr 2013 | 09:14 pm
It has been a long time since I bought a new cookbook but today I splurged on two: The Sprouted Kitchen by Sarah Forte and Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi My reasons for purchasing these two are comp...
An inconvenient craving 12 Mar 2013 | 03:47 pm
Apparently, I am not the only person in my area who craves Zingerman's lemon scones. The last few times I attempted to obtain one, they were already sold out and that left me feeling a little grumpy. ...
Cake! 27 Feb 2013 | 06:58 pm
Let us celebrate the return of cake to this home! We had a birthday here last weekend and for the first time in five years I made a cake for my family*! I should explain that the cake boycott has not...
Ahhhh 13 Feb 2013 | 08:50 pm
A good book in Winter is satisfying in a way that a good book in Summer just can't compare. So I feel very lucky that I just finished reading Jo Baker's The Undertow now and not, say, in July. It wou...
knitting, or not! 6 Feb 2013 | 03:38 am
The other day my girl critter checked out a book from the library that had a load of knitting patterns for her kind of creatures, namely bugs, squid and other creatures that creep most people out. At ...
