Today on Simple Bites is my article on preserving tomato sauce. So if you, like many people around this time of year, have a million tomatoes and nothing to use them up in before they go bad, head on over to Simple Bites and find out a great recipe and technique for preserving tomatoes without […]
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Time is moving quickly in our house, as every parent knows it does and it’s not slowing down any time soon. The kids often play together on the floor while I keep a watchful eye from the kitchen. How they once stood apart from one another staring only with an uncaring eye, they now show
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The cooling off period is here. Crisp evenings, dewy mornings and the crackle of fires and smoke filled air. Autumn is a season full of emotion for most people, scents, sounds, sights; they all conjure something different for everyone. My favourite part about autumn, besides the oversized sweaters, scarves and inevitable hallowe’en references is the food. Who can
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Today begins a countdown of sorts. Today is four short days from my husbands 29th birthday. What seems like the birthday before the big birthday is really the birthday. This is the last year of the twenties, the last year that he can get away with being a young un, the last year of youth
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Sometimes people ask me what it’s like living so far away from the city. I’m not sure quite how to respond really. The first things that generally come to mind are that I can’t walk anywhere. There is nothing within five miles of my house besides the odd smattering of small cul-de-sacs filled with empty summer homes.
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Today is the first day of the Mushrooms Masters – A Tournament of Taste “Shiitake Showdown!”, a food blogging competition between the US, Canada and Australia. Bloggers from these countries have been recruited to create fantastic, mind blowing recipes to compete against the other nations in a side by side comparison, where you (the readers) get to vote for
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Wonder. Your sense of wonder is so strong when you are so tiny. You gaze at the one holding you with such innocence in your eyes and smile with pure joy. I wonder what it’s like to be such an empty slate. I know I was once, not so long ago, also in such a
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Weekends at our house are filled with activities. We go to the Farmer’s Market, and the butcher shop, the grocery store and the liquor store (I know I’m not the only one!). We eat quick bites at random places, I nurse our littlest one, we play with our older son and we spend time as
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Yup. I’m that Mom. This girl is going to be smothered in so much pink crap that she’ll be mortal enemies with it by the time she’s nine. Or maybe she’ll become as obsessed as I am… Having only had a boy before having this lovely girl, I had already succumbed to the thought that
I haven’t talked much about our trip to the Okanagan, so I thought I would share a short recap of our adventures. Really I just want to saturate this post in glorious pictures of my family. So there. The trip started with a short ferry ride across the Straight of Georgia or if you like,
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