bulk barn

When you adopt a eating clean regime, and you run out of unsalted mixed nuts for your salads and steel cut oats for your breakfast, the best place to replenish your supply is bulk barn. I walked into the store with the greatest resolve. Steel cut oats? Check. Unsalted mixed nuts? Check. Dried cranberries? Check….

Eating Clean

After a night of perogies, sausage, sour cream, and fried onions, my heart and arteries gasped out and pleaded with me. They said, “Walsh, you have GOT to give us a break, we’re doing the best we can here, but seriously, just a break, even a small one would be nice”. I sighed and listened…

Garlic Spaghetti

Some 20 years ago I went on a cruise with my Auntie Ann through the Caribbean. It was a terrific time. We met some great people, drank an amazing amount of alcohol, did some crazy things, and most importantly ate a lot of great food. It was our first (and only) cruise, but we hooked…

Happy St. Valentine’s Day

Nothing expresses love more than cooking something for dinner that is smothered (dramatic pause) (I am joking people). Tonight, I am making my man pork chops that happen to be smothered with a nice rich mushroom sauce, rice, and some veg. I am not taking a picture of said supper, because mushroom cream sauces don’t…

Jazz Art

Yesterday Michael and I went to our second annual Jazz Art Concert at La Cite francophone, which is put on by Giselle and her nice friends at the Societe francophone des arts visuels de l’Alberta. It’s an interesting, fun, and social affair. Most attendees speak French, and this makes the evening seem like we are…

V Sandwiches

If you work or live in the downtown core, do yourself a favour and try a sandwich from V Sandwiches, a new Vietnamese sub place that opened this past August. You can find V Sandwiches at 10135 100A Street Edmonton. Phone 780-426-1888. Take a look at their website here: http://www.vsandwiches.com/ This spotlessly clean, tiny little…