I spent 12 hours working on my secret project today, and a lot of my recent posts have been pretty heavy. Today's post will be low key ( Read more... )

This entry is primarily directed at my mother, because she's probably the only person who cares how well I ate at Thanksgiving.

Dear mother: you're probably wondering if I ate well at Thanksgiving.


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Today I opted to write about something that makes me happy.


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An archetype widely held by Canadians is that American beer tastes like piss. While there are some differences between beer in Canada and beer in the US, I didn't note this among them.

Caveat: I think the most popular beers sold in Canada taste like piss. Molson Canadian is a disgrace to our nation's namesake. A good beer wouldn't have to appeal ( Read more... )

So, I'm a full time student again ( Read more... )

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I was out with my father on Sunday. He usually takes me out for groceries on the way home (I am still living like a student) so I picked up a bag of potatoes. But instead of getting the Yukon gold potatoes as I have been, I decided on a bag of red potatoes ( Read more... )

I am catching up on my email, getting back to my "float" of 79 unread messages.

I decided to read one email titled "The Art and Science of Good Eating at the Black Hole Bistro". Sometimes I just archive the Perimeter Institute emails without reading them, but I like food (as you'll see from my post later today) so I decided to read it.

Chef ( Read more... )

I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of it earlier.

I've put a lot of things into mashed potatoes: butter, flavoured cream cheese, Cracker Barrel old cheddar (it blends in quite nicely), onions, garlic, freshly ground pepper. But until late last week, it never occurred to me to throw in sour cream.

And I love sour cream ( Read more... )

I noticed Cracker Barrel is on sale at Zehrs this week, so I stocked up again.

But, in the flyer, it said "500g bars". "That can't be right," I thought to myself. "It's probably a typo, supposed to be 200g bars or something."

The flyer was correct. The large bars of cheese are now 500 grams. Funny, the cheese bars from the last sale (still in my ( Read more... )