I made buns to go with yesterday's dinner. Usually I look up a recipe any time I make a bread product, but I was feeling a bit cheeky yesterday and decided to tackle it without a recipe.

I cheated a bit, mind you, because I printed off a sheet with the proportions for making various bread products. For bread, it told me that the ratio should be ( Read more... )

I know we already had our Thanksgiving, but one of the benefits of marrying an American girl is that I get to celebrate it twice in the same year ( Read more... )

While I wait for the hamburger buns to rise in the oven (I heat the oven to 150° F, turn it off and then let bread rise in the residual heat), I have some time to mull on oatmeal ( Read more... )

One of the things that drives me up the wall about many of the recipes I find on the Internet is how their authors blithely assume that everyone has access to the kind of rare ingredients you would find if you live in a very large metropolis. Often one can find suitable substitutes for the pretentious ingredients they list ( Read more... )

I fell down the Spotify rabbit hole again this evening. Actually, I took up where I left off the other evening. While I was listening to CBC yesterday they played a quirky song by a Quebec artist. I didn't catch the name of it, so I grabbed my phone and used Sound Hound to identify it for me. After I found the artist on Spotify, I used the "fans ( Read more... )

I imagine I will find other things to fill my days as I ease more into retirement, but for now the main thing that is filling the gap from my old job is planning meals and cooking ( Read more... )

I am in a quandary right now over whether I should make another cup of coffee at home, or walk down to our new local coffee shop ( Read more... )

I'm coming close to two months into retirement, and so far it's going well. I had a to-do list of things I want to get done in the first while, but it's a slow process. One of the top things that I am going to start moving on next week is replacing our water heater. Our current one still has one working element, so I haven't been treating it with ( Read more... )

We cleaned out our garden beds a the week before last when it was starting to look like our weather was going to transition directly from summer to winter, giving fall a miss. We usually see a slow transition, with at least a few warm days leading into October, but as I type this it is dropping to sub-zero temperatures and snowing outside, so I ( Read more... )

One of the benefits of bison is also one of the pitfalls, that is, it is generally much leaner than beef. While this makes it arguably better for you, it also makes it a little tricky to cook since most recipes assume your meat will have a higher fat content. If you are not careful you can end up with a lump of dry, flavourless meat ( Read more... )