Creating the good old days, one day at a time.
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BC’s Agrifood Products Offered to the World
A new international market development strategy is the latest item on the menu offering BC’s agrifood and seafood products to the world. The strategy aims to build on the record $3.5 billion worth of B.C. products exported in 2015. B.C.’s top five 2015 agrifood and seafood export markets were U.S. ($2.5 billion), China ($343 million),…
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Why I’m No Longer Saying Happy New Year
In an effort to make our society more inclusive and to avoid excluding people from conversations, I am no longer saying happy new year to people. Let me explain. Satire: the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other…
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293 Wallace St Restaurant
I ventured up the Fraser Canyon this week and discovered that road conditions were actually much better than they are in the city. Of course as I traveled through Hope I did the usual and stopped at 293 Wallace for lunch. With all my Christmas feasting still in mind, I opted for a soup and…
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Cabin Cooking; Brussel Sprouts
This week I took a quick trip to the cabin and as usual, I took the opportunity to cook a dinner of the foods that I enjoy – including brussel sprouts – without worrying whether the kids would eat it or not. To start, I did my broiler-brussel sprouts. After cleaning them up, I sliced…
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Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas to one and to all!!
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Draft Metrotown Downtown Plan Overview
The City of Burnaby is undertaking a community planning process to update the community plan for the Metrotown neighbourhood. The intent of the updated Plan is to establish Metrotown as Burnaby’s Downtown, made up of distinctive neighbourhoods that embrace and celebrate its people, community, diversity, mix of uses, character, architecture, urban form, and public realm.…
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Meat Craft; Perogies, Bacon, Sausage
I needed to make dinner for the family and a friend of the my daughters this evening and I didn’t want my reputation my dad kitchen skills to be tarnished, so what to do? Stop in to see Butcher Greg at Port Moody’s Meat Craft Urban Butchery to get perogies, bacon, chorizo sausage, and a…
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Roasted Carrots for a Snack
The kids decided to leave the roasted potatoes alone for a day and instead asked me to try roasted carrots. So that’s what we did this afternoon. In the pan above, which was a clean pan until we drizzled balsamic vinegar and avocado oil over the carrots and then rolled the carrots around in the…
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Subscribing to Stacey Robinsmith dot com
I continue to learn new things about my blog now that I have made the big blog move. Initially I set up MailChimp so that people interested in subscribing to my blog would get a weekly update of the items I had posted. Then I discovered a cool little thing called Jetpack for WordPress. Jetpack…
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Snow Preparedness and Lawsuits
We often hear about how society has become very litigious. People live in fear of being sued for this, that or anything else. People race out to shovel snow off and spread copious amounts of salt and other ice melting miracle chemicals on their walkways as soon as there’s a sprinkle of snow. After all,…
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