Happy New Year! It’s been a while, and I have a story to share. On Wednesday we went to Bulk Barn. It’s kind of far from home but we had to be in the area, and we were excited to take advantage of the larger selection available there than where we usually buy our bulk […]
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No Garbage Thanksgiving Dinner
Last weekend was Thanksgiving, and I want to share a bit about what we were able to cook and what we learned. We cooked two sort-of traditional Thanksgiving dinners. I say sort-of traditional because we were only feeding a few people at a time, so instead of cooking a whole turkey, we cooked a complete […]
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Tagged apple crumble, brussels sprouts, cranberries, cranberry sauce, lard, potato, pumpkin pie, squash, thanksgiving, turkey
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No Garbage French Onion Soup
Joanie loves French Onion Soup, and I think it’s pretty good too, so last week when I saw this post on how to make it at home I wanted to try it out. The only problem was that I wanted to do a really good job and we didn’t have any beef stock, and hadn’t […]
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Tagged cheese, cooking, french onion soup, Fromagerie Hamel, Les Fermes Saint-Vincent, onions
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Our Menu is Coasting
A couple of weeks ago Joanie & I watched the entire season of The 100 Mile Challenge online. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a TV show that challenged families in Mission, BC, to eat only food from within 100 miles of their home for 100 days, (based on the book, The 100 Mile […]
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Tagged coasting, eating the same thing, food, repetition
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Buying In Season Means Cheap Applesauce
At the market on Saturday we saw apples for a dollar a basket, and the basket was pretty large. We also had some apples at home already from our weekly vegetable basket, and since we’ve been getting a lot of apple recently we are tired of Apple Crisp. By combining $1 of apples from the […]
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Tagged apples, applesauce, canning apples, cranberries, fresh apples, in season
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Dumpster, or, Recycling Bag, Diving
The other day when Joanie went out to work she called me almost as soon as she left to tell me the neighbour had put out a bunch of books in the recycling. I went and checked and there were thirty-six books, and most of them are worth reading! I collected them and will read […]
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Tagged books, dumpster diving, free books, recycling, scavenging, waste stream
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