Marc Garneau held the door for me. There’s a statement I never anticipated uttering. He’s both an astronaut and a gentleman. Marc was on the panel discussing the tragedy of missing and murdered indigenous women in northern British Columbia after a recent screening of Matt Smiley‘s Highway of Tears. This heartbreaking, shameful exposé is essential viewing to understand Canada’s injustice system. Getting back to…
Root Veggie Salad – Poetry in a Plate
When day-to-day life starts grating on you, potatoes can have that calming effect. But how can you have your comfort and keep svelte too? Add some other root vegetables and hold off on fats. Butter and mayo may make potato salads palatable, but drizzling a a stingy amount of high quality olive oil on Root Veggie…
Veggie Fries – Just Do It!
It isn’t all about food. What we wear can be as near and dear to our hearts as what we eat. If you need proof go see Love, Loss and What I Wore at the Centaur Theatre tonight or tomorrow night, You’ll be entertained and charmed by the vignettes that tell women’s stories through their clothing. The opening night was a…
Layered Roasted Veggie Quiche – Brunch?
Bringing our family together over brunch to celebrate a double birthday (grandpa, 92; eldest grandchild, 41) requires a few “musts.” You must serve bagels. You must have something wonderful to put on said bagels — cream cheese, goat cheese and smoked salmon, for example. You must serve something wonderful for dessert. Layered Roasted Veggie Quiche is not…
Popcorn Chocolate Bark – Fits the Bill
A fancy new brand of popcorn has hit the market with a big bang. Popcorn Indiana is proudly non-GMO; it’s even kosher, but maybe not for passover. It’s delicious, but even more yummy is this recipe for Popcorn Chocolate Bark. Popcorn Chocolate Bark 3 c bittersweet, good quality dark chocolate chips, melted in a bowl suspended over a pot of…
12 Best Jittery Salmon Recipes
A truly Canadian childhood has got to include some fishing. I remember hooks and worms, rods and reels, sights and sounds of wallowing by the lake, catching sunfish in the Laurentians. If I caught it, mom would cook it. That was the deal. Let’s face it, fishing is the only time that many of us come…
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