So it turns out when you take the World's Best Meat Sauce recipe from the grain-free gourmet book and, while it's simmering (I like to make it super-thick), sautee a bunch of chopped up mushrooms and garlic in butter, and then once the mushrooms have been all butter-spongey, dump the whole shebang (including the butter-garlic-mushroom juice) into ( Read more... )

We've all had those weeks where nothing goes right. I've been having them pretty constantly lately. But today was absolutely fantastic.

It started off meeting up with my parents for the Christmas Carol reading at Church of the Redeemer. Sean Cullen started off the show,  and man, can he tell a story. Bob Rae took up next (before going off to get ( Read more... )

So, yeah. Stuff has been happening.

First thing, part of the reason there has been so little activity here is that I've been far more busy planning museum-girl. Much of the reason for that is that Museum Girl is now part of the ROM social media team, and my first blog entry and contest related to said blog entry just went live. Museum Girl also has a twitter ( Read more... )

Working from home today thanks to the underwhelming (but still class-cancelling) Snowmageddon in Toronto, and taking a break for lunch. I've been discussing the SCD with a few co-workers, especially in light of our staff outing to Winterlicious next week (Cafe California is awesome and has promised they can work around my restrictions), and the ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah, I know. I suck for updates ( Read more... )

I've been saying that even if nothing else comes of this, the SCD diet will have been worth it because it's taught me to appreciate real food again, without all the additives and things that are seemingly inescapable in anything you can buy off the shelves. Because I'm avoiding any complex carbohydrates (that's all refined sugars and grains), I've ( Read more... )