Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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Monster Jam® Vancouver
While I drive around the city with my kids in one of the smallest cars on the road, my daughters have taken a fancy to trucks. Not just trucks like your regular SUV. Nope. They are wild about monster trucks like the kind we are going to see at the Vancouver Monster Jam®. So what…
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Making Biscuits
I’ve been working on making biscuits for quite some time now and today I had my best results yet. It was like I heard a voice from my past this morning, “Don’t work them so hard! Just gently introduce the ingredients!” So today, I quickly stirred the dry ingredients together in my mixing bowl and…
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The Vancouver Wellness Show 2018
I was invited to attend the Vancouver Wellness Show again this year and I happily accepted the invitation. I always find it interesting to see the latest ideas and trends in healthy lifestyles and healthy foods. The following video is a little montage of some of the images I captured from the Vancouver Wellness Show.…
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Instant Pot French Onion Soup
I tried making French Onion soup yesterday. It went “okay”. The recipe I followed called for a teaspoon of finely ground black pepper and I’ll be honest, it was too much. I also do not have oven proof dishes so I couldn’t put the filled bowls of soup under the broiler. I’ll try this again…
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Family Day Fun 2018
How was your Family Day? I spent the day traipsing around the city with my kids seeking all the spices and flavours that make meals marvellous. We had success finding flavours of rosemary rock salt bagels, elk pepperoni and bison milk blue cheese at Granville Island. And we bought a mortar and pestle in the…
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Instant Beef Stroganoff
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Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff
Yesterday for dinner I decided to try and recreate a dish I remember quite fondly from my childhood – Beef Stroganoff. And I wanted to recreate the beef stroganoff in our Instant Pot. I had an understanding of the basics of what goes into a Beef Stroganoff so I did my best to replicate what…
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Quick and Easy Homemade Bread
Typically I like to make homemade bread and do “cast iron cooking” while away at the cabin. However, I was given a couple medium sized cast iron pans and they needed to be seriously cleaned and seasoned. And one of the best ways to season a cast iron pan is while making homemade bread. So…
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Instant Pot Spaghetti and Tomato Sauce
Oh my. The Instant Pot is going to be my financial saviour. Wednesday night the kids have swim lessons until 6:30pm. Getting out of the pool, waiting for a shower stall, showering, getting to the car, and then home makes for a very late evening. And even though we eat before swimming, they’re still hungry…
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Burnaby has Foodies on Board
On the weekend I visited Foodies on Board, a little restaurant on Production Way in Burnaby. I enjoyed a plate of Eggs Benedict as well as the general “vibe” of the restaurant. Have a look at the short video I made of my visit – I appreciate the time that Chef Ken Ou and his…
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