No I’m not a huge country music fan, but when I heard that Shania Twain defended poutine as “Canadian comfort food” in response to Martha Stewart calling it “junk food,” the girl went up a notch or two in my book. Shania was a guest chef on Martha’s daytime talk show when this happened just [...]
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Experiments in Yogurt
This week I successfully made yogurt at home. I’m really blown away that it worked!
Packing school lunches several times a week got me thinking about how much the kids love yogurt, but bemoaning how expensive it is. One solution was to use my strawberry jam mixed with plain yogurt scooped from the large containers into [...]
Zoltan’s Guacamole
2 avocados2 cloves garlic, choppedthe juice of ½ of one lemonsmall onion, minced1 tomato, seeded and dicedsalt and pepper to taste
Scoop out avocados. Add garlic, squeeze lemon, and mash until smooth. Add tomato. Stir, then season to taste. Cover if not serving immediately!
Notes:I frequently half this recipe, depending on how loud the tummy rumbling is [...]
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"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." — C.S. Lewis
