Today Ford released details and images, including videos, of their brand new truck – the Ford Maverick. Full disclosure – I have NOT been paid for, nor compensated in anyway for writing this blog post. These are strictly the musings of a guy interested in this Maverick. This new Ford Maverick truck is a return […]
Last Friday I had a sneak peek inside Doughnut Love – a new doughnut/coffee shop and the interior of the shop is as beautiful looking as their doughnuts are beautiful tasting. Clint, the doughnut chef (is that actually a baker?) told me that the plan is to have, along with the regular doughnuts they make, […]
A couple weekends ago I smoked a beauty of a brisket in my ugly drum smoker. Well the truth is before you can smoke a brisket, there’s a lot of prep to do with the brisket. I had my camera crew (that’s my kids) film me trimming the brisket. It’s basically just me cutting off […]
As my Facebook memories have been reminding me, in a typical year I would have spent the May long weekend at the cabin. With the current travel restrictions in place, I chose not to travel. Instead, I stayed home and cleaned up my Ugly Drum Smoker and smoked a beauty of a brisket. However, as […]
Recently the good folks at Marlondo Leather reached out to me and told me that they were prototyping a new style of briefcase – a canvas and leather combo briefcase. And the cool part, they asked me if I was interested in getting one of their prototypes to provide feedback to them. They told me […]
Up until very recently the best burger I had ever eaten was from a little hole in the wall place called Duane’s Ono-Char Burger on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. That is until I tried a burger from an equally unpretentious place – the Between 2 Buns food truck. And when I say the Between […]
After every purchase I make at Canadian Tire, no matter how trivial the purchase, they email me asking me to do a product review. So I have decided to up my product review game – see the image below for details of my new product review style. Some might even call it “hard hitting”.
Something I haven’t talked about before is the fact that for quite some time I have been suffering experiencing insomnia. This is something I haven’t really talked a lot about. But now I have a cure for insomnia. Every night at almost exactly 3 AM I wake up. Like literally, at 3am I would wake […]
I didn’t want to let the total failure of my air fryer Blooming Onion stop me from air frying other delicacies. So I decided to go all-in and air fry some Black Cod. And spoiler alert – it was sensational! I carefully dried off the pieces of black cod and then gently applied a dry […]
I spent time in the Test Kitchen prepping and cooking a beautiful slab of pork belly this Easter weekend just gone. I followed the Jamie Oliver recipe/method and honestly, it turned out exquisitely! I started out by doing like Jamie Oliver suggests, I used a shop/utility knife to score the skin side of the pork. […]
Testing the Christmas treats @doughnutlove.ca .
Gingerbread doughnut blends all the gingerbread goodness and the wonder of a doughnut.
The Cranberry Orange Old fashioned brings together my three favourite flavours – cranberry, orange, and an old-fashioned doughnut.
And then the Butter tart doughnut. All the rich goodness of a butter tart nestled into a pillowy soft yeast doughnut.
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#doughnuts #buttertarts #christmasflavours #christmas #donuts #eatlocal #supportlocal #coquitlam #gingerbread #cranberry #nomnom #dessert
And we’re home! A long week and a long (uneventful) drive home. Huge thanks to the Kanaka Band who have set up a Necessities Store that supports all community members AND they give away fresh produce that they grow in their local gardens.
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Next step in this crazy adventure. Leaving Lytton and we’re headed to Lillooet. We’ll see what’s up at that point.
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I’m not saying we are actually “out of food” but I did find these two items on the shelf at the cabin and started to think, “hmmm, what can I make with these.”
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#bcstorm #lytton #lyttonbc #shelterinplace #getmeoutofhere #sendfood #shitsgettingreal #lentils
I needed (wanted?) to get out of town for a couple days before returning to work so Brown Bear and I headed up the Fraser Valley for lunch @mtnviewbrewing.
I’m still on a pretty restricted post-surgery diet so I let the kid choose our lunch.
She chose wisely. We shared the roasted veggie flatbread and she declared it the “most delicious savoury food she’s ever eaten”. Wow. I agree, it was very tasty!
The other option was a roasted Housin duck flatbread – next time!
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#hopebc #embracehopebc #travelthecanyon #fraservalley #lunch #flatbread #pizza #eatyourveggies #mountainviewbrewingcompany #nomnom
The day my doctor says I can once again eat solid food! A delicious and nutritious Carrot Cake doughnut @doughnutlove.ca is definitely appropriate.
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#doughnuts #eatlocal #doughnutlove #coquitlam #donuts #donut #cheatmeal #peanutbutter #doughnut #breakfastofchampions
When you’re in the hospital waiting for surgery and you’re in isolation but your bestie wants to see you. You find a “work around”. Get’er dun!
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#bestfriends
Out of the house for the first time in a week and took one of the kids for brunch.
She had the veggie Benedict – see my Reels to see a beautiful medium poached egg.
I’m still sticking to my liquid diet so it’s an oat milk latte for brunch for me.
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#blacksmithbakery #fortlangley #latte #coffee #oatmilk #instagood #foodgasm #yum #brunchtime #foodlover #foodblogger #coffee #yummy #delicious #foodstagram #instafood #foodphotography #food #foodie #foodporn #breakfast #brunch
We found these little fire starters from @shopperpluscanada useful when we were out for the #5dadsgowild retreat @manningpark
They made starting a campfire pretty straightforward and easy to do. Just hold a match to the shavings in the centre and the fire is away and going.
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#giftedproduct #camping #campfire #campfirecooking #manningpark #manningparkresort #wintercamping