The internet is a marvelous thing. Yes, I could live without it, but life would be dull and I’d be dumb, because I couldn’t quickly Google things like “quantum mechanics” and discuss Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment at a cocktail party a few hours afterwards. I’ve come to love the surprises StumbleUpon has given me, and…
Author: CathyWalsh
I am a food and lifestyle blogger who has been too busy with food and lifestyle to blog.
Game of Thrones
Tonight is the eve of a Game of Thrones marathon at a friend’s house. And because this friend of mine has a terrific, if not envious imagination, we are making it a “theme” day. She is serving food items like sweet baby gherkins (“Tyrion’s Little Pickle”), cheese slices (“Joeffrey’s a Muenster” cheese), crackers (“King Aerys…
Opimian Wine
We live in a little two-bedroom apartment with a storage cupboard. The storage cupboard is chock full of 6-bottle cases of wine from the Opimiam Wine Club. Michael, meanwhile, has boxes from our move last spring with no where to put them on account of my wine collecting. Michael shakes his head every time we…
Savoury Chicken Couscous
Savoury chicken couscous. It has couscous! You can pretend you are almost Moroccan. Serve this in a tagine, and people might think you really ARE Moroccan. Wouldn’t you be lucky? They have delicious food. This recipe is healthy (at least I think it is, I’m certain I got this from an Anne Lindsay cookbook, and…
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Last night I celebrated Diwali with friends and had some of the most amazing, most delicious, most flavourful Indian food I have ever eaten in my life. I resolved privately to myself that I would never cook again until I’ve learned how to cook Indian. You think I’m kidding? Ha! I’ve registered to take an…
Magic Fish
To the person who did an internet search for: but i love you, he will say in his soft, bewildered way, stirring the spaghetti sauce but not you, staring into the pan as if waiting for something, a magic fish, to rise from it and say: that is always enough, why is that not always…
Popcorn
Thanks to my sister, I am the proud owner of a newfangled microwave popcorn popping bowl. It’s a bowl, with lid! Look! Look! I’m not kidding: I am NOT pitching for Amazon, but if you check their link you can get more details. I can also tell you this, my sister bought mine at Safeway,…
Turkey Soup
Thanksgiving was but just a week ago, and already I’m craving the soul soothing flavours of a full Thanksgiving dinner. Mom sent us home with little care packets, but those were “gobbled up” (get it, gobbled? as in gobble gobble? *sigh* I know, that’s pretty bad) by Monday last week. I get the treasure of…
Discover BC VQA
Subtitled: The Wines of British Columbia Fall Release Edmonton Wine and me, we’re pals going waaaay back. When I saw a Tweet a few weeks ago inviting food biz people to the Discover BC VQA wine tasting event, I thought, “why not?”. So I RSVP’d with great delight and anticipation about trying new wines from…
Nalysynky (Cheese Crepes)
Nalysynky (nah-liss-neh-key): Cheese crepes. Ukrainian food. Delicious, waist expanding Ukrainian food. Nalysynky is not a complicated food item to make. It just has multiple steps and requires your full attention whilst making the crepes. It’s a great food to make as a couple, however, I am one of those cooks that sends my husband off…
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