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Saturday Snap – Hawaiian-Style Shrimp Poke
Shea and I attempt to re-create one of our (okay, my!) favourite snacks from our Hawaii trip. Pretty close though I think the version we ate had fresh kim-chi in it as well.
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Friday Fun Link – 18 National Flags Made From Each Country’s Most...
Boo – no Canada in this list of national flags made from 18 countries’ most representative foods – how easy would it be to make the red stripes of our flag out of back bacon and the maple leaf out...
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Saturday Snap – Perogy Poutine
I don’t post a lot of pictures of food on my blog but I couldn’t let this one go by. After Pace’s swimming lessons today, we decided to check out a new restaurant called Coney Island Cafe which was...
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Friday Fun Link – Yes Please!
Today on Facebook, a friend asked if I’d seen this particular flavour of Hammond’s chocolate bars. I’d seen the regular kind (and had bought my mom and dad one as a gift when Sasha was born) but if I’d...
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Saturday Snap – Sasha Eating Pudding
As I mentioned on Facebook, Sasha and I have a lot in common – we don’t wear shirts at the dinner table, we’re pretty messy eaters, and we occasionally gnaw on the bottom of containers to try to get at...
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The Coteauster
I missed a pretty clever April Fool’s joke yesterday – Coteau Books announces the “Coteauster” which will burn daily excerpts from one of their award winning books onto your morning slice of toast!...
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Friday Fun Link – Calgary Stampede Debuts 66 New Midway Foods From Great to...
Red velvet mini donuts. Chocolate dipped cookie dough. Deep fried butter. Scorpion pizza. One of these things is *not* like the other!
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Saturday Snap – Homemade Fresh Rolls
Making one of Pace’s restaurant favourites at home…
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Saturday Snap –“Saturday Steak”
One trick I picked up about bbqing steak is to finish them by propping them up on their sides. Yum!
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Secular Sunday – Chocolate Crosses
Saw a supply of these in the Minot Wal-Mart a couple years ago and couldn’t decide whether to laugh, be offended (even as a non-Christian) or marvel at how crass capitalism can be sometimes! “Hey kids,...
View ArticlePace Guest Post: How To Make a Miracle Safe
I couldn’t think of anything to post tonight so I asked Pace if he’d seen anything cool on YouTube lately. This is what he suggested…
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Saturday Snap – Privatized Liquor Stores In Action #yqr
As a general rule, I tend to prefer public ownership of essential services – utilities including power, natural gas and telephones; grain marketing (especially as opposed to ownership by Middle Eastern...
View ArticleNational Geographic MegaFactories: Coca-Cola
It always boggles my mind that human beings are able to design something so intricate and precise yet massive and overwhelming at the same time…
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Gone Camping (Again)…
I’m really enjoying every time I get to post this photo… Made with chocolate covered hob-nob cookie!
View ArticleGreat #Saskatchewan MustardFest #yqr
Shea and I attended MustardFest with my mom last weekend (Grandpa stayed home and babysat which was just as well given how crowded the event was.) It threatened rain like they had in 2014 but it turned...
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2015 End of Year Memes: Two Tropical Trips, Election Wins & Loses, Campy...
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? One of many secret shames in that I never learned how to downhill ski when I was growing up. The first year we did a class trip to Mission...
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Friday Fun Link – How Rural Cuba Celebrates New Year’s Eve
This is very different experience to what we had a week ago in an all-inclusive resort targeted at tourists. (Warning: Some may find the photos in the link disturbing. Others may find them...
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Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Green Beer, Green Milk? (March 2014)
This is how Pace and I enjoyed St. Patrick’s Day in our respective ways a couple years ago…
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