Almost a year ago I, along with a few other bloggers were contacted by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs to participate in some short Foodland Ontario videos featuring our blogs and small businesses. It was a pretty great experience, and one of the best things about it was being introduced to […]
Archives for October 2011
project365: week forty one October 8th, 2011 – October 14th, 2011
October 8th, 2011 We have picked tile and paint and made very boring progress on the room that once was a functional bathroom and is rumoured to be one again. Some day. Sigh. October 9th, 2011 Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! We ate our from-scratch cranberry sauce and decided the ones with the spice were delicious but […]
Cubit’s Organics’ Roasted Carrots and Beets with Mint and Feta
The combination of sandy soil and full sun means that we are able to grow really nice root vegetables in our front yard here in Toronto. When we’re not growing for seed, we just grow all the different types and colours mixed up so what you pick is a surprise; A striped beet or a […]
Make Your Own Organic Cranberry Sauce {Enough for both Canadian Thanksgiving and Christmas}
I had a lovely evening out last week with my friend Shana. We went out on the town to a canning class put on by Bernardin in a local church kitchen. Although we’re both becoming rather seasoned canners it’s nice: 1. To have a nice community event to go to. 2. We kind of like hanging […]
project365: week forty October 1st, 2011 – Octoberber 7th, 2011
October 1st, 2011 Best thing about new bathtubs? The Giant Box. October 2nd, 2011 Another day of renovating, another day of boxes. October 3rd, 2011 Making Chilli by roasting some of the last tomatoes and a purple pepper. October 4th, 2011 So many zucchini muffinis. October 5th, 2011 Mint for these roasted carrots I blogged […]