Christmas time is one of the few times of the year when we get a chance to ‘return to our roots’ – putting away the latest bells, whistles and portable technologies to gather for a traditional meal and fellowship with family and friends. If your household is like ours the dinner table will be dominated
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Making the Bennerific Chocolate Rice last night got me to thinking. Well, actually it was Ben suggesting that the dish might make a nice change for breakfast as well as a pretty decent snack or dessert. One of the things I noticed moving to Teeswater from the Wet Coast was that here potatoes rule the
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Sometimes an ‘Eureka!‘ moment in the kitchen happens when you least expect it! I love Rice Pudding. I also love Chocolate. Sadly, I have a lactose intolerant teenager in the house. Goodbye creamy Rice Pudding! Last night, after his hockey game, in which the MIGHTY Teeswater Bantam LL Otters trounced BCH 12 – 4 by
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I like cooking from basic ingredients, none of this open a package and add water for me thank you very much. But I also love gadgets, which puts the bread machine at the top of the technology evolution ladder for me. This weekend I was casting about for a cinnamon bun recipe when I came
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There are two things I have found out about kids when it comes to days like today – that they seem to love to help in the kitchen and they get bored REALLY quickly! While casting about the Net for some interesting and simple Christmas recipes I happened upon a site called Dreams Alive Magazine
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On a cold, wet and generally blustery day like today, it can be kind of nice to settle back, just a little, and see what my email brings me. One of the better newsletters I get is from eggs.ca – the same folks who bring us those often hilarious Get Cracking! eggs commercials. Today’s recipe
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If you were out to the South Bruce Old Time Christmas Concert last night you might have spied a smallish square for sale on the refreshments table. Adapted from a recipe in Company’s Coming’s Pint Size Books series this quick square will be popular. But remember to cut the pieces small as there is quite
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When I was growing up instant hot chocolate was years in the future. With long, damp winters on Vancouver Island, hot steaming mugs of hot chocolate were in constant demand (especially if your parents didn’t allow youngsters coffee!). Making hot chocolate with Fry’s Cocoa may take an extra minute but it is definitely worth the
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It’s hockey season and if your house is like ours chances are between about 4 and 7pm every day your house starts to look like the 401 at rush hour! Sometimes it is almost a full time job just trying to find equipment, rush to Wingham to buy hockey tape or replace a broken shinguard,
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Discussing H1N1 and flu in general in the community this morning made me wonder if there was perhaps something simple we could do to our diet to help us battle the bugs that seem to be everywhere this fall. In my net-travels an interesting fact appeared. Since 2003 when Avian Flu first reared its’ ugly
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Are you a coffee drinker? Looking at the number of ‘ejected’ brown and yellow disposible cups on the side of the road the ‘brown elixir of life’ is quite popular in this area. In fact it is said that green coffee (unroasted beans) is the second most traded commodity on the planet – after crude
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Around our house ‘quiet time’ is when people are going less than 50 mph. As a result dinners can be rushed or multitasked between web pages, graphic work or designing a new shawl or sweater. That can result in quick but boring meals but with a little ingenuity you can elevate humdrum to spectacular in
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