OK I didn’t actually do “the deed” myself, my Mom did. My Mom gets all the credit for the husbandry too, given that I live in Toronto and keeping chickens is [ridiculously] illegal. But I did pluck, eviscerate and prep this bird for the freezer, along with about 40 others. I grew up on a…
Category: In the Kitchen
Bread porn is back!
Isn’t it ironic that when my paying day job becomes social media ALL DAY ALL NIGHT ALL THE TIME, my personal social media profile completely tanks? This is what happens when you’re the sole person responsible for breathing life into the social profile of a corporate brand. Sigh. Well despite this, I am starting to…
Shiny new playground
It’s not lost on me for one second just how ridiculously lucky I am to have been able to, with my hubby, undertake this immense renovation project and be able to design something exactly the way we wanted it. I feel sort of self-conscious sometimes talking about what we’ve done here, knowing that others can…
The best chicken soup EVER.
OMG. A food post? Yup. Finally. I’ve had some time to settle into my awesome new kitchen and then, well, then I got sick. I’ve contracted a scratchy sore throat that’s quite probably evolving its way into being a full blown nasty sinus cold. So as I sit here taking it easy, letting my body…
The big dig
On our way home from the cottage last weekend we stopped into the new house and low and behold the deck, she was gone! The exterior waterproofing is underway and going very quickly. We were sad to see the awesome huge deck go, but it was a necessary evil, and we’ll be able to build…
Fresh, locally milled flour
As part of developing my sourdough bread baking skills I wanted to try to find a local source of high quality, fresh wheat flour that was as unaltered as possible. Last fall my Dad was in the hospital in London, Ontario and Chris and I drove there to see him from Toronto. During the drive…
Roadside Chicken Marinade
So now that we’re working on trying to hire a contractor in preparation to do some renovation work on our new house, as well as getting ready to move, we’re pretty busy. Often lately we’re heading to work super early in the morning to make room in our day for site visits and other errands. I’ve…
A little colour for winter
I’ve had a stock pile of beets left in the fridge, from my garden, for quite some time, along with some cabbage that needed using. I realized it’s been some time since I made borscht, so, voila! The great thing about borscht is that you can vary the vegetable ingredients to use up whatever you…
Ginger-awesome
It’s that time of year. After a year of doing very little in the crafty department, I’ve been cranking it out the last couple of weeks. I’ve finished several pillows, quilted and otherwise, along with a few small knitted gifts. Of course I don’t want to post any of this until after the holidays or…
Kitchen face lift
Chris and I have been a bit preoccupied over the last 6 weeks or so. It started innocently enough, with a broken down keg fridge. Actually, if you go that far back, the whole thing started in late July, when we declared the fridge truly dead. The story of the keg fridge and its replacement…