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For the vegetarians amongst us (who are always welcome here), I ask that you work your way through the story at the top as the analogy is rooted in meat but is an important aspect of cooking as a vegetarian as well… One of the more exciting food moments of my last year was getting [...]

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Missing My Kitchen…

I`ve been away from home for less than a week and todays trip home is just on time! When I travel for business I, like most, miss family, pets and friends.  I also find myself (as I`m sure others do here) missing my kitchen. The obvious reasons for missing my kitchen include the ability to [...]

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The last few days have been some of the most excruciating pain I`ve ever felt. When I broke my elbow, it took 4 days to go to the hospital because I didn`t think it hurt `that bad.`  I had mono for 5 months before finding out because I thought I was only a `little bit sluggish.`  [...]

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This photo (the only known photo of Billy the Kid), which is the size of a credit card, sold at auction this weekend for $2.6 million: The photo was taken in 1879 or 1880. There`s a lot of confusion on the legend of BIlly the Kid.  He may have killed 4, 9 or 21 people [...]

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I continue to learn a lot about making pizza and am mildly obsessed. As today is a travel day, I thought I`d share a few quick tips that I`ve recently developed that`s helping my homemade pizza reach the next level (pictures and another post on pizza when I get back).  These tips are resulting in the [...]

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As a bit of background – in Canada we have a lot of food labelled as `Product of Canada.`  The legislation is often criticized for confusing the origins of food – i.e food grown on the other side of the world and then shipped here can be labelled `Product of Canada` if the packaging costs [...]

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It`s Friday evening or Saturday morning when most of you are perusing this – thought we`d share links to some really neat food-related infographics (we didn`t put copies here due to knowing how much work these are to create).  Each of these 10 graphics are awesome – and great food for thought: Growing better rice [...]

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For those who follow along with our preserving adventures, you’ll know I take great joys in the liberties of dehydration.  There is so much room to play and experiment and have fun, and some of my other cherished methods aren’t so liberating. Of course it doesn’t always work out so great.  I recently tried to [...]

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I stopped by the pub on my home from work.  I was there to pick up our weekly delivery of farm-fresh food and the second delivery of the year from our CSA.  I stopped short of the temptation to grab a pint and enjoy the first day of summer on the patio. I had started [...]

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I love lemonade.  Hand-squeezed sweet and tart goodness that instantly seems to hydrate my entire body.  There’s nothing quite like it. I have a secret when I make my lemonade, let’s see if you can see it: It’s all about the rim. Remember these? Or these?  They are part of my fabulous rim. First, let’s [...]

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