I have to share this here. It is totally taken from Magical Eating:

I was thinking about how the kitchen is such a metaphor for life:

• Salt is like enthusiasm - add at the beginning and the middle, but reserve some for the end.
• Keep your tools sharp; pay attention as you use them.
• When you’re hot, sweaty, and exhausted, stop to appreciate the sauce you ( Read more... )

An interesting question yoinked from dancingwolfgrrl

Did you know that it is the week of eating in? Ok, actually, me either, until recently. But this has made me curious!

By my count, there are fourteen non-breakfast meals in the week. How many of them do you and your family cook at home? How many of those rely on prepared foods (canned soup, frozen ( Read more... )

... I thought that'd get some attention. At The Burgundy Lion ($25) in Little Burgundy. Anyone interested?

http://www.burgundylion.com/events.php?section=1#_self

For my friends south of the Canadian border...

Veggie Trader: http://www.veggietrader.com/

"Wish you could turn your excess plums into lemons, or maybe even a little cash? Use this site to find neighbors to swap with or sell your excess produce to. Or if you specialize in growing tomatoes, find neighbors who specialize in other produce and form ( Read more... )

The lovely, talented and luscious
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Back in December, dancingwolfgrrl  clued me on to an online program to track workouts and eating. It also has a virtual gym buddy feature that you can use with your friends to motivate each other, as well as communities for specific goals, eaters or exercisers. I'd been wanting to track my workouts and eating better, so over the past few weeks I've been trying ( Read more... )

Today's find at a different grocery store: Organic single malt speyside scotch and fair trade rum.  Too bad I don't generally like speysides.

I also discovered, as I wandered around the store, that organic and fair trade product were mixed in with regular stock and they carried their own colour-coded identifiers on the front of the shelf so they ( Read more... )

I've never seen this before, but here it is, fair trade wine in the grocery store in the small town where I'm staying in the rural UK. Go figure. I'll have to give it a taste, or at the very least bring some back with me.

Tonight I made a Sunday roast. I ventured to the market and got a pork loin from the local-organic butcher. I slid garlic and rosemary into it and roasted it along with maple-rosemary potatoes; and served it with apple sauce, peas and gravy. It was moist and tasty and very yum. I am very proud of myself.

Now that I'm eating meat again, I'm trying to learn more about what consitutes 'certified organic,' 'certified humane" or "certified sustainable."  I'm a bit suspicious of 'certified' or  'organic' anything.  Right now I'm buying most of my meat directly from the farmers. This means I can actually talk to the farmers and find out how the animal was ( Read more... )