What a week! High demands at work and at home: Travel organizing, charity events, social planning, costume making and a hundred small fires to put out. How to recover? Shopping doesn’t work for me. I get into the kitchen and whip up some soup, bread or sweets. And today, since it was such a crazy week, I made [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Cooking Therapy
Posted in cottage, favourite things, food, frugal tips, Gibson's B.C., Modern Life, recipes, Sunshine Coast B.C., tagged cottage, cottage recipes, food, frugal tips, Modern Life, recipes, Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast B.C. on October 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Thanksgiving Shake-Up – Bacon Wrapped Turkey and Chow Mein
Posted in cottage, family, favourite things, food, frugal tips, household tips, kids, Modern Life, recipes, Sunshine Coast B.C., Uncategorized, tagged Bacon-wrapped Turkey, cottage, cottage recipes, cottage Thanksgivine, family, food, kids, Modern Life, recipes, Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast B.C., Thanksgiving on October 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
My kids have long envied a friend of mine who married into a Chinese Canadian family and enjoys a roast-turkey-and-chow-mein dinner each Christmas. My oldest son is graduating this year and I fear it won’t be long until I get the sad news that he is planning to spend Thanksgiving (or Christmas, or another traditional [...]
Cottage Recipe: Valdosta Pecans
Posted in cottage, favourite things, food, frugal tips, home made gifts, household tips, recipes, Sunshine Coast B.C., tagged candied nuts, candied pecans, deluxe salad fixings, food, Gibsons B.C. Sunshine Coast B.C., gourmet gifts, homemade gifts, pecans, quick and easy appetizers, recipes, sahale snacks pecans, Valdosta on October 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I just love these nuts, which are made by Sahale Snacks. If you haven’t tried them, they are sweet, with a hint of orange and a generous portion of black pepper. Its a sensational combination. They are available seasonally at Costco – usually around Christmas time. Last week I saw them featured at Thrifty Foods: [...]
A Tale of Three Kitties
Posted in cats, family, favourite things, kids, Modern Life, pet adoption, pets, Uncategorized, tagged cat adoption, family, pets, VOKRA on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One day, about 8 years ago, after a break from owning pets, I had an overwhelming urge to get a cat. Without consulting anyone in my family, I went to Petcetera, where there was a handful of SPCA cats featured for adoption. One was timid, one was recovering from injuries after jumping from a third floor [...]
