Category: Eating
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Mid-Season Update of the 100 Mile Diet
Time for a mid-season update on the 100 Mile Diet. As I have previously blogged, the front yard garden has been expanding. Having spent some of my formative years on a small farm, I have difficulty leaving a patch of soil as a useless patch of lawn. I like to grow food. Last fall we…
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My Very Own Magical Beans
Last week, on Thursday July 11th I took a few minutes before heading off to school and I planted a couple rows of green bush beans. I’m not sure if you remember or not, but last year I had significant difficulty getting beans to sprout. I now realize that I was simply planting them too…
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Megabite Pizza Hits the Right Flavour Note
Whenever I am traveling via Skytrain to downtown Vancouver I make a point of stopping at the Megabite Pizza joint in the Broadway Station to grab a slice or two of pizza. Not only is it usually very fresh pizza, there is always a wide and eclectic variety of pizzas to choose a slice or…
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Meatless Monday Serves up Delicious Quinoa Patties
For our meatless Monday meal, Sweetheart took the big bowl of leftover quinoa and made amazing little patties. I have been told that these tasty little treats are relatively easy to make, especially if you have a stand mixer on your countertop. Try them with the recipe first and then get creative to do more,…
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How do I find the time for gardening?
The one comment I get as a result of my gardening is, “How do you have the time to do all that work!” The answer is pretty simple really; it is NOT a lot of work!! Sure, the first day when I build a garden box is pretty hectic but I typically build one or maybe…
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Wordless Wednesday
We had a couple volunteer potato plants in one of the garden boxes and today we pulled it out to make room for a couple more rows of beets. This is what we found.
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Blow your MIND Tomato Basil Pasta
How cool is this recipe? I found this recipe on Facebook yesterday and we ended up cooking it for dinner. And it was delicious!! For this recipe there is no straining the pasta, just stirring. So what do you need? Pasta, Tomatoes, Veggie Broth, Olive Oil, and Seasonings.Throw it all in the pot, INCLUDING the…
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Subway Sandwiches Save the Day
This week just gone by was a week of working lunches. Every day I was asked to join one group or another to discuss stuff of such importance that we could not even leave the room to break for lunch. A couple of times, instead of leaving the meeting room, we ordered lunch in for…
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Wordless Wednesday; Our 100 Mile Diet
The 100 Mile Diet (actually I call it our 100 foot diet) has continued this year. We are in full production now with a crop of snap peas, kale and salad greens harvested and consumed. The Grand Forks garlic is nearing harvest time and we are now considering the next crops to plant.
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The Sixth Street Grill Serves a Winner
In order to serve my readers, I have continued my selfless research into where to get excellent burgers in Metro Vancouver. As I have previously said, I am not looking into those fancy-pantsy $100 burgers with gourmet this-and-that, I am looking for the best (relatively) inexpensive burger in our city. Today’s research took me to…