If you asked me what was the one constant, healing, feel-good meal that’s sustained me day in and day out for the past 18 months, I’d tell you about my Homemade Muesli Breakfast. And I’m not alone. I’ve gotten quite a few enthusiasts happily following the muesli mania. Muesli energizes while it satisfies, and the…
PBJ Smoothie Bowl – Or Simply Smoothie
After 426 JC posts and all the blah blah blah, you probably think you know all my secrets. But what you don’t know yet, is that I have smoothie bowl envy. For several years now I’ve gazed upon photos of smoothie bowls so lovely they’d make Martha Stewart blush, but until I read Robin Asbell‘s…
Quinoa Breakfast Bowl and French Press Coffee
I love coffee — particularly really good coffee. And I’ll go to great lengths to ensure that the coffee I drink has the right exaggerated, bold, rich flavour. I’ve tried Nespresso, Keurig, a percolator and many, many drip machines over the years, and they’re OK. But for a simple, robust, full flavour brew that satisfies yet…
Fruit Compote and What’s for Breakfast?
If I wanted to make a game out of searching for inconsistencies and missing information, I’d steer you to the new cookbook Eating Clean in Costa Rica. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a lovely warm-hearted read, filled with excellent recipes that you’ll want to try. But it’s reliably missing or contradicting information left, right and center….
Breakfast of Champions
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…
Great Granola for Adrianne Kara
When your daughter is nice enough to invite you into her apartment, nice enough to allow you to stay for several days, nice enough not to be too demanding about what she’d like you to bring her…When her sole request is a bag full of her favourite granola…How can you say “no”? You can’t. My…