Category: Eating
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Meatless Meatloaf Recipe
I was asked if I could repost the recipe that my mother gave me for the best ever meatless meatloaf. As an aside, I am still looking for a top quality, gourmet mac and cheese recipe. If you have a time-tested favourite, go to the “About” page to find my email and send it to…
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Zucchini Soup Recipe
With zucchini season almost upon us it is important to know what to do with the products of these often prodigious plants. The following soup recipe is one my mother made when I was a kid and I now make. It is one of my all time favourites. Zucchini Soup In a frypan or Dutch oven-style pot…
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The Save-On-Meats Diner Breakfast Experience
Last Sunday, early in the morning before my weekly visit to see my dad I decided to give the recently re-opened Save-On-Meats diner another taste test. You may remember that I tried their lunch fare in the first couple of days that they were open. That was a very pleasant experience so I thought I…
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Benton Brothers Cheese and Save-On-Meats
I am trying to work on two different blogs posts; one on our visit to Benton Brothers Cheese on Granville and the other post is about my recent re-visit to Save-On-Meats to sample their breakfast fare. I can safely say that both posts will rave about these fabulous places in our city. Here is a…
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No-Frills Customer Service Fail
I was just at my neighbourhood No-Frills grocery store. Cashier was a total bitch. Line-up of CUSTOMERS at her till got long quite suddenly. She looks up and says, with anger dripping from her voice, “I’m never going to get anything done tonight.” I asked, “Isn’t serving customers one of the things you are supposed…
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Guest Post on New Westminster’s Taqueria Playa Tropical
A guest post today from a frequent reader, Ms Kelsey Keller who has a Delightfully Inappropriate blog of her own. Admittedly, my sweetheart and I always say it’s our goal to support small local restaurants instead of massive chain ones, and yet we always seem to end up at a chain restaurant. We are drawn…
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Our Efforts to Live a 100 Mile Diet
More on our efforts to embrace a 100 mile diet… Last fall I constructed the garden box using six 2×8’s. I used construction screws (nails are so passe) to put the box together. Dead easy with a cordless drill I borrowed from my neighbour. Next, I placed multiple layers of clean cardboard on the lawn…
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Starbucks Special Morning Offer
A sort of public service announcement today for my coffee loving friends; Starbucks is offering a Grande cup of coffee for the price of a Tall cup of coffee from now until September 5th. This offer only applies if you are in the store before 11am. After that, it is full price. And for the…
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Happy Canada Day; Will it be Starbucks or Tim Hortons Today?
Happy Canada to all! And on this Canada, what most are probably going to see as a most unpatriotic post; which do you prefer, Starbucks coffee or Tim Hortons? For me, if I have a choice, it is Starbucks over Tim Hortons every time. The coffee is always brewed perfectly and the taste is always…