Pasta sauce recipe is below. First, you have to hear about our weekend. We had an interesting weekend being survivors of the Edmonton earthquake. You don’t believe me, do you? Check it out: Tremors from 7.7-magnitude earthquake in B.C. felt in Edmonton | CTV Edmonton News. Being on the 6 o’clock news was more fun than…
Month: October 2012
Manor Bistro
My husband and I wanted to have a special night out – and it’s getting a bit tricky since we eat out regularly and celebrate each day as a gift. But this evening was a bit extra-extra special as I had been out of town that week, and Michael and I were missing each others…
Gluten Free Chocolate Cake
This is a gluten free recipe, but it is hardly calorie free, and it is the calories that make this moist chocolate cake so delicious. I received this recipe from my work sensei, Claudette, who shared it with me after I experimented with quinoa in my Quinoa and Apple Salad. That salad was a huge…
Beans on Toast
And you wonder, “She’s going to write about beans on toast?”. “You betcha!”, says I. After a Thanksgiving without turkey, I am feeling a wee bit glum. The grey skies and promise of rain and maybe snow doesn’t help much. I call it Transitional Weather and No Turkey Left-overs Melancholy (psych student? you are welcome…
Laurel’s Pumpkin Pie
Yesterday in my Facebook timeline I got the delightful news that Cally’s Teas talented baker, Laurel, would be making pumpkin pie to order for Thanksgiving weekend. As I was on turnip puff and dessert duty for our family’s Thanksgiving dinner this happy news about the pie made me do my autumnal “I get pumpkin pie…
I Heart Japan
It’s nearly a month since my last post, and thought I should take a wee peak and see if anyone is still reading my blog. Well, it warmed my heart this morning to see that I had not one, not two, but THREE reads from Japan this morning. Anyone from Canada? No! Anyone from the…