Kindergarten is hard work! You have to wear clean clothes, matching shoes, remember your library books, and you even have to go 5 whole days in a row. The worst of it is, you really want waffles in the morning and waffles are now relegated to weekend breakfasts. So after a whole week of school […]
Great Canadian Food Experience: My Cherished Canadian Recipe for East Coast Fish ChowderRevisited
Great Canadian Food Experience: My Cherished Canadian Recipe for East Coast Fish Chowder I’ve written about fish chowder before but as it really is my cherished Canadian recipe I’m revisiting it as this month’s contribution to the Great Canadian Food Experience Project. One of the hardest things about having to drastically change your diet is […]
Easy Preserving; Grind and Freeze Zucchini to Eat all Winter
I’ve never been very good a growing zucchini, until this year where I stopped fussing over it and totally neglected it. Seems zucchini likes neglect. The only issue now is that we keep accidentally letting these summer sqush grow to be as big as the baby. We had one that weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces. […]
How to Tell when your Green Tomatoes are Ripe and Ready to Eat
One of the most common questions I get in August is “how can I tell when I should pick and eat these green tomatoes?”. Lime Salad, Green Grape, Green Zebra, they’re all green and all a little confusing when you’re used to waiting for your tomatoes to turn red (or blue) before enjoying. It’s actually […]
Starting School and Facing Gluten Free Snack Time with Mott’s Fruitsations + Veggie fruit snacks
I won’t lie, I’m nervous about my daughter starting kindergarten in two weeks. Her school looks great, her teacher seems wonderful, we’ve met all the kids and I think they’re going to get along just find. It’s this pesky celiacs and how badly it was handled at nursery school last year. Snack time has me […]