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. […]
Good news! I got my COVID-19 vaccination. Friday night I was shopping at Costco for potato chips and Brie cheese in preparation for a long weekend of sitting on the couch and, well, continuing to do not much of anything. And as you would have it, my local Costco has the pallets of potato and […]
As I have previously stated, I love my air fryer. It cooks super-fast and is more economical to use seeing as you do not need to heat up a huge oven to cook relatively small things to perfection. To give you an opportunity to win aCuisinart air fryer, I have teamed up with my fellow […]
Under the heading “Learn to stay in your own lane” I bring you my second attempt at an air fryer blooming onion. And spoiler alert, it is still not pretty – nor very tasty. I started out with the onion – cut into segments and yes, I probably cut too close to the base of […]
Long before the pandemic hit and everybody started baking sourdough bread, I was already making my own sourdough bread. I had my own starter who we affectionately call Floyd. Over the last couple of years I have tried many different bread recipes, techniques, and tricks. Some with success, others not so much. However I have […]
As I said a month ago, I now have an air fryer in the kitchen and I have really grown to love it. I love it so much that I used it to “air fryer” a prime rib eye steak! Admittedly, the air fryer does not do everything well. I tried making homemade onion rings […]
At some point in the not too distant future our house and our neighbour’s houses will probably be bought by a developer and torn down to make way for a higher density housing. Probably.
Just to mess with the entire process I’m thinking of buying this Halloween skeleton decoration and burying it in the garden bed in front of our house.
Imagine what would happen when they are digging up the yard and dig up a skeleton!
Probably shut the job down for a day or two while they investigate.
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#halloween #prank
Thinking back very fondly to the first #5DadsGoWild expedition into the great north woods. @filson1897 was kind enough to supply me with a very warm and comfortable wool shirt.
Seeing as this year’s trip will be in mid-October, it’s safe to assume it will be even colder than any other year we’ve ventured out to @manningpark.
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I wonder if Filson will send me a new, warmer shirt or jacket to wear when I’m out hiking and camping? What do you say @filson1897 ?
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#FilsonLife #filson #camping #getoutside #explorebc #manningpark
Getting out to exercise my franchise this morning. Proud to vote for @bonitazarrillo who is a strong community advocate for Coquitlam.
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#voting #votingday #advancepolls
You know your colleague @stacyleebrine knows you well when you return from summer vacation and they bring you a gift of a t-shirt from the best little coffee shop! @bluemoosehope .
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#bluemoosehope #bluemoose #tshirt #embracehopebc #travelthecanyon #bestcolleagues
Brisket is done. Rested it overnight wrapped in foil and towels sitting in a cooler. It was still warm this morning and tastes wonderful.
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#brisket #traegergrills #traeger #beef #smokedmeat #nomnom
Got up early and started my 13lb brisket on the @traegergrills First two hours on the “Super Smoke” setting. Now set at 225°.
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Perfect day for relaxing in the bbq pit.
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#brisket #beef #traegerhood #traegergrills #smoker #smokedmeat #food #foodporn
Sunday morning doughnut run @doughnutlove.ca .
No line up this morning!
Although in the video the doughnuts look small, they are actually really big.
The fritters are easily the size of the palm of my hand.
The salted caramel was delicious but still my favourite – the apple fritter. Classic good looks and taste.
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#doughnuts #doughnut #doughnutlove #eatlocal #coquitlam #fritters #food #foodporn
Playing around with @traegergrills again today. Got a bag of apple wood pellets for today’s cook.
So far I’ve got these beautiful chicken thighs done. Did a dry rub and cooked them to 170° before adding a barbecue sauce.
Just gave them a light coating and then back on the grill to 180°. Perfectly moist and very tasty.
Next is the pork belly burnt ends done following @howtobbqright system. I skipped the drizzle of honey today but these are some kind of sweet goodness!
Still on the Traeger is a monster sized pork picnic shoulder. It’s almost at 160° now and once it is, I’ll wrap it in foil, add a cup or two of apple cider vinegar and let cool to 204°. It’s got a few more hours to go yet!
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#porkbelly #pork #traegergrills #traegerhood #chicken #pelletgrill #chickenthighs #pulledpork #foodporn #smoker
Kids and I are home from a wild weekend at the cabin. Lots of time outdoors.
Sunday morning we went for a walk to have a quick visit with our neighbours.
On the walk back we encountered a mother bear and two cubs. We yelled and waved our arms in the air, we stood close together to make the mother bear think we were a bigger adversary than we really were.
Although her cubs were safely behind her, she didn’t back down. She actually stood up and kept watching us and making aggressive noises.
Knowing that we were closer to our cabin than the neighbour’s cabin, I had the kids move behind me and we slowly inched along the trail.
I told my kids we were in a bit of a pickle here and that if I told them to do something, they needed to do what I asked them to do immediately and without question.
We kept moving slowly towards the cabin while I prepared to protect my kids.
I thought any weapon is better than no weapon so I pulled out the Black Tusk folding pocket knife I got @houseofknives and prepared for a battle to the death (probably mine, not the bear’s). I was just thinking about giving my kids time to get to safety if the bear attacked.
Mama Bear and Papa Bear were now in a stand off.
I haven’t been in a physical altercation since 1981 and I really didn’t want to go toe to toe with a black bear, but what’s a dad to do? I prepared myself to protect my kids.
Fortunately the mother bear looked around at her cubs who were now far behind her, then looked at me and my kids with our hands high above our heads, and then she dropped to all fours, gave a loud “woof” and took off.
We made it straight back to the cabin where we sat down and I enjoyed a lovely cup of “Papa’s special tea” to stop my hands from shaking.
They say the best camera is the camera you have with you. I guess that’s true for knives as well.
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#edc #hok #bearaware #blacktuskknives #knives #houseofknives #getoutside #explorebc #pocketknives