Next weekend is the official “GO AHEAD AND PLANT YOUR TOMATOES’ weekend in Southern Ontario.  That means supposedly the chance of frost has passed.  May 10th was the actual frost free date, but everyone is encouraged to be safe and wait until the long weekend, when … chances are they’ll be really drunk and won’t [...]

I’m waiting on asparagus. I’m not so super devoted to eating “fresh” that I don’t EVER buy things out of season, but I’ve purposely not bought any asparagus for most of this winter. So I am FREAKING OUT EXCITED FOR ASPARAGUS. Should be here any day. ……(w a i t i n g)…… Kay. It’s [...]

  Omg it’s gonna be May.  Holy crap. Kay.  So.  I’m still up to my nostril hairs in dirt. No funny.  No stories.  No anecdotes. Hey WAIT!  Did I ever tell you about the time I was in bed with Jerry Springer?  Oh that was quite a day.  Too bad I don’t have time to [...]

Back to the menus!  I haven’t done a menu plan for the past couple of weeks because I’ve been too busy to worry about it.  Whatever I found in the fridge or freezer is what we ate.  Worked out well actually.  More on *that* little experiment in a week or so actually. Looking for something [...]

    Surprise!  NO real menu this week.  Which is kind of stupid, because THIS of all weeks is the time I probably *should* be making a weekly menu. This week, you see … is FRONT YARD VEGETABLE GARDEN week.  Over the past 3 weeks I’ve been writing and typing and photographing until my fingernails [...]

Before we get to the menu I thought I’d let you know about my new ads.  I’ve switched to a new ad network.  An ad network is a place somewhere far, far away that supplies my site with advertisements so I don’t have to run around knocking on the CEO of Toyota or Mercedes door. [...]

I couldn’t be bothered to write anything clever because I’m thinking about my garden.  You know, kind of planning it in my head, so there isn’t really room for anything else to come in or out of my brain right now.  Sorry. In lieu of writing something entertaining and clever prior to presenting my menu [...]

I have a BIG weekend of manual labour ahead of me.  Big.  Like BIG.  So even though I’d like to tell you all kinds of stories about this week’s menu and maybe even add in a knock, knock joke, I just can’t. I need to reserve all of my energy for the dastardly weekend of [...]

We’re closing in on the end of the heavy, starchy foods season in Canada, so I plan to incorporate as many things that make me feel like I have a cement mixer in my belly as possible over the next few weeks. Behold … the beginning of the end of the Winter Weight extravaganza … [...]

As you know, I agreed to start writing out my weekly menu for you again on one condition. That condition being … there would be no funny. No humour, not little stories, no work. Just the menu. NO other writing. I take that all back. So, did ya hear the one about the girl, the [...]

I want you all to be quiet for a second.     Good. Now … I want you to imagine Weird Al Yankovich singing Eat It!   Are you seeing it? Are you hearing it? You’re welcome. That oughtta be with you for the next few hours. And yes. Lot’s of leftovers this week. Why [...]

I know I’m only a tiny wisp of a thing but that doesn’t mean I don’t own fat pants. I have em. And right now … they fit me. Knowing this, I developed this week’s menu around the fat pant facts. When the fat pants become the regular pants, it’s time to cut some carbs. [...]