But about as easy as I expected – namely not easy at all. I’m working on a side-hustle, trying to exploit all my hard-won knowledge surrounding cooking, baking, making YouTube videos… I cook every day. I bake… Rarely… I make YouTube videos even more infrequently but that is more because of the astonishing amount of […]
Yes. Now that is out of the way, now that we are done with the dinner, I think some musing on Thanksgiving are in order. Not the existential commentary on what we’re thankful for (healthfamilykidslife) but more musing on the zeitgeist of producing a turkey dinner and just how much suffering has to go into […]
Yesterday I took an opportunity to go and see a photography show on at The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver. I got a ride downtown and then we zipped across the harbour on the Seabus, wandered in to the magnificent building and took a look at what was on offer. It was a show called, […]
When it comes to cooking I’m more a technician than a planner. I think of myself as a ‘Man of Action’ rather than a ‘Man of Ideas’ although I have enough of the latter to make myself appear in equal parts annoying and dangerous. Regardless, I do a lot of the cooking – and my […]
Not a fan of the name – ‘micro greens’. I keep thinking that they’ll be tiny little plants and the only way you can eat them would be on a massive white plate with a small pile of them in the centre. Kinda 1990s era nouveau cuisine. Aside from the name, though, they’re rather cool. […]
Ok, the caption on the photo isn’t quite right. The above is what happens when you let your mind wander and you don’t set a timer. Once, many years ago, I forgot a pot on the stove at my mother-in-law’s house. I was reducing some sauce and headed out the door in a clueless moment […]
My mother loves ginger. I’m rather lukewarm about it. I’m more appreciative these days but for years I was no fan. For my mom, candied ginger, this ginger, that ginger – everything goes… If a recipe calls for ginger she’ll add twice what is called for. She has been making gingerbread from the same recipe, […]
So I had a rough couple of days. Nothing earth-shattering, just those days where it’s hard to keep your mind straight because of some issues, here and there. A friend (Joe) who has a studio a hundred feet from my studio (down the hall and up a flight of stairs) offered me a cup of […]
I was asked to make cookies. Actually, my wife was making cookies and I stepped in when she had a call with a family member. The call was long enough that I got through the whole batch of cookies. Making these cookies got me thinking… Thinking about my aunt Hylda. Hylda was my dad’s aunt […]
I’m a sucker for rationalizing an expensive purchase. I do it more than I care to admit, but I have to say that I think the math usually works out in my favour. For instance, I just re-did a bunch of stuff in my backyard. New back fence, new roof on the garage, new flagstone […]