Category: Eating
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Swiss Chard is My Kale
Almost as easy to grow is green onions, Swiss chard is one of those crops that never seems to fail. Swiss chard can be planted very early in the spring and grows quickly, providing a first green crop of the season for those who have suffered through a long winter without greens from the garden.…
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Fat Jack’s Homestyle Diner
I have discovered a new breakfast joint. But unlike most of my favourite breakfast joints, this one is not in Metro Vancouver. It is in a most unlikely location in the Fraser Canyon east of Boston Bar. I stopped at Fat Jack’s Homestyle Diner this weekend and sampled their bacon, mushroom, and cheddar cheese omelette.…
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Fat Jack’s Homestyle Diner at The Mighty Fraser
Typically you expect to see hipsters, the tattooed, toque and black t-shirt wearing twenty-somethings in Vancouver on Main Street between King Ed and north towards Kingsway. Sometimes they will head further east as far away from Main Street as Fraser Street. Rarely though will you see them east of that. So imagine my surprise when…
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National Mint Julep Day
Did you know that today is National Mint Julep Day? Every year on May 30th people around the world stop what they are doing and sip a mint julep. Huh. Who knew. Traditionally a mint julep is made with mint leaf, bourbon, sugar and water. Obviously with the addition of sugar, the mint julep is…
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Big Star Sandwich Co and Wally’s Burgers
A couple foodie bits from New Westminster today. First, I had lunch at the Big Star Sandwich Co on Monday afternoon. Typically I will get their Corned Beef on Rye sandwich but Clint, the owner and chief sandwich architect told me they had a new turkey supplier and he thought I would enjoy the new…
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A Couple of Urban Gardening Ideas
A simple addition to your patio planter can be chives; amazingly beautiful when added yo your urban gardening routine and also very useful in your kitchen. For example, this beautiful planter has chives growing in it and foodies know that chives are absolutely delicious in many dishes. When homegrown they are even more amazingly flavourful.…
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Apple Trees to Replace Ornamental Trees on City Streets?
One thing that I got to wondering about today was, why do cities plant ornamental trees instead of apple trees along their streets? Okay, the cherry blossoms are beautiful in the spring for the couple of weeks that they are in bloom but otherwise, what purpose do ornamental trees play? I understand that some housing…
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Quick and Easy Freezer Fries
I found a very cool blog called Super Healthy Kids and today here is a nifty idea for batch prepping freezer fries that not only saves you time for meal prep but also helps you keep your potatoes from going bad before you use them. Here is an excerpt from that blog: My favorite shortcut…
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Food Revolution Day 2014 Pt 2
As I posted yesterday, today is Food Revolution Day. This is a thing started by Jamie Oliver as a way to reconnect kids to food. Reconnecting them to how it is grown, where it comes from, how to prepare it, how to serve it and all those wonderful things that food can be. As a…