Instant Pot-sibilities
We didn’t go shopping on Black Friday but Derek did pop out last Saturday to pick up one of the hottest sale items: the Instant Pot. …
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Parlez-vous Sous Vide?
Meaning “under vacuum”, sous vide is a cooking method used by many top chefs. You vacuum-seal your food in a bag and cook it in a water bath at a precise temperature for a longer period of time. It can’t overcook so it comes out exactly the way you want it. …
Salty Spice
A taste for spice will help you reduce your salt intake. This has implications for anyone who’s trying to keep a cap on how much salt they eat.  …
Five Foods You Should Never Eat
While we’re on vacation, I’m rerunning some of my favourite blog posts of the past.Â
Did that title grab you? It sure got me when I saw it on CNN and even more so once I realized Dr. Sanjay Gupta was presenting these five baddies with Men’s Health Magazine. I watched the video so you don’t have to. So what are they? …
What’s In the Middle
This week, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. burned up the Twitterverse with a post about his favourite sandwich. You remember Elvis’s ‘nana and peanut butter? Try banana and mayonaisse on white bread! …
The Sugar Conspiracy
While I recover from the bug I caught in Iceland – yes, I’m still recovering – I haven’t had much of an appetite. I’ve been eating protein and salad and fruit, but haven’t felt like indulging in my carb cravings or satisfying my sweet tooth. These are good things because both have been in overdrive for the past couple of years. …
More Than Fair
In recent years, The Western Fair has been a little tired. We always go, but it just hasn’t had the zip and zest of years past. The first thing you’d see when you walked through the gates were hot tubs and bedsheet vendors. The midway was small and the rides pretty run-of-the-mill. I don’t even ride on rides anymore and I noticed the descent. …
Restaurant Gizmo
This was new to us. Some restaurants have iPads at the table now, where you can place your order and it goes directly to the kitchen. But where we had dinner on Saturday night in Port Huron, MI, there’s a little screen at each table for the express purpose of paying for your meal. …
Throwback Thursday – Nasty Soup!
Imagine radio in the 1980s, if you will. There was no Internet. We didn’t have email or cellphones, let alone smartphones. I saw my first laptop in the hands of CKSL afternoon drive announcer Dick Joseph. It never occured to me that it was anything I would use, much less own, one day. …
The Secret? There is no Secret
The world’s oldest woman can’t believe she has the title. Suzannah Jones turns 116 next month and she inherited the distinction after the death last week of a 116-year-old Michigan woman.
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Ode to a Frozen Diet Dinner
O frozen meal, be you Lean Cuisine, Weight Watchers or Healthy Choice. How do you lure me back when I know of your failings and shortcomings? You are like the rectangular mafia found in my grocer’s freezer: you keep pulling me back in. …
Eating Like a Six-year-old
I often joke that when I’m finished with my meal in a casual restaurant, it looks like a toddler has been eating off the plate.  …
Snack Trees
Today I want to share a favourite recipe. Derek calls them bark cookies. I make them just about every week and toss a couple of them into my lunch bag. There’s no oil, butter, egg or milk in them and there’s protein, fibre and fruit. When they’re not what you want in a cookie, I suppose they do taste a bit like bark. Chocolate, peanut butter bark. …
Tasting Tomorrow
When I moved out on my own, I asked my Grandma to send me some of her favourite recipes. I still have the cards, with ingredients and instructions in blue ink, in her identifiable scrawl, detailing things that, sadly, I will never make. Spiced tomato relish. Sweet pickles. Dishes I identify with her but don’t particularly enjoy. But I’ll never throw out those cards. I couldn’t have known that we would lose her so soon after I left home. …
Brandt’s Randt – Oh Great, What do we Eat Now?
This week’s Brandt’s Randt is pretty self-explanatory. I just hope researchers eventually get food sorted out before we start gnawing on tree bark. …
My Meatless Past – July 8, 2008
I love seafood. Heck, I love a lot of foods. And I truly enjoyed the fresh lobster we ate while on the east coast but I’ve got to admit that I really don’t like having anything with eyes on my plate. …
Food News – Not for the Squeamish
When you get to the point of this post you are not going to believe it.  You are going to think that I was somehow duped into accepting the wildest most ridiculous rumour and that I haven’t checked it out thoroughly.  You will be wrong. …
A Day Late and a Pancake Short
Free-FM’s commercial and imaging producer Rob brought a recipe to our attention and if hubby had his way he would ask me to make it every day. Â …