In honour of these creatively chic chicks my sister crafted I am going to write this entire post using only words that begin with the letter “C”. Clearly crafty city chics carefully create countertop chicks ’cause constable confetti clapping cretin clarinet.  Crap. Kay, this isn’t working. Let’s try again using the word [...]

You haven’t lived until you’ve eaten a pickled beet. Unless you’ve been on an African safari. That’d probably win out in the “you haven’t lived until you’ve …” contest over the pickled beet thing. But pickled beets are pretty darn good. I bet they’d taste even better while on an African safari. You could clink [...]

Well, it’s kind of Guacamole. I figure there are so many different Guacamole recipes out there you can practically call anything Guacamole. Stick an avocado in a shoe and step on it and in some districts … THAT’S GUACAMOLE! I’ve been on a bit of a Guacamole rampage lately.   Now,  normally I like to [...]

Did I ever tell you about the time I threw up a ball of grease?  I think I did.  It’s a good story.  I’ll tell it again. Throughout my entire high school career I ate the exact same thing for lunch.  Every day.  Every single day. At noon, or whenever the bell went off that [...]

You’ve gotta love an edible plant that comes up year after year no matter how much attention you do or don’t give it. Rhubarb.  It’s the gift that keeps on giving. And giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving. [...]

So since we’re all up to our elbows in dirt any way, now’s the perfect time to create a little pot of microgreens. Why? Well … only because it’ll change your life, make your cats speak Spanish, improve your hearing and give you the ability to do the splits.  In both directions. Plus, microgreens are [...]

So you wanna know how to make perfect French Fries, do you?  Yeah.  So did I.  For about the past 20 years. I will tell you now, that I have tried every method, potato and oil temperature known to mankind in my quest to create THE PERFECT FRENCH FRY.  I’ve come close many times. In [...]

I like to do things just because I like to do them.  Can I go to the store and buy Maple Syrup?  Yes.  Of course I can.  I’m not an idiot  you  know.  Well, sometimes I am actually, but not in this particular instance.  The time I tried to teach myself taxidermy?  That’s more of [...]

  Here’s the thing about me.  I injure myself at least 3 times a week.  I cut myself, burn myself and just generally maim myself.  I have bruises and no idea where they came from, scratches that seem to appear out of nowhere and this week for instance, my left butt cheek was so sore [...]

Sometimes when I have a bit of a mental block I consult the fella.  He’s usually pretty good at working me through it.  And he’s always very serious and sincere in his offer to help me. Take this example.  For today’s post I knew I was writing about some of the kitchen tools that I [...]

So.  I kind of feel like I’m being cheated here.  You people know what I’m eating on any given night, any given week.  All you have to do is click on my This Week’s Menu and there it is for God and everyone to see.  Karen’s eatin’ beets and will think she is dying tomorrow. [...]

Well. You’re lucky. I managed to find time in between hauling buckets of sap into the house and scrubbing maple syrup off of every surface of my kitchen, myself and my cats to do my Tea Towel drawing. And by tea towel drawing I don’t mean a pencil sketch, I mean, drawing for the 5 [...]