So, lets talk Breakfast: in my life so far, apart from an ever-was-ever-will-be love for an eggy cook up on the weekends, I’ve gone through a patchy bunch of breakfast lifestyles over the 30-something years I’ve been partaking of the ritual. From a routine, almost never changing path my mother kept us tenaciously on [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Fresh Start to Your Day
Posted in Uncategorized on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Perfect Spring Antidote
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Strawberries?
Check!
Rubarb?
Check!
Custard?
Check!
It’s a staple we all know, love and gobble up whenever offered: a strawberry rhubarb pie with vanilla custard. There’s something as traditional and country living as tennis and Pimms about the whole thing and you know, with this combination, you simply can’t go wrong. As you’ve figured out by now, I love [...]
On the Edge of Summer, a Barbecue
Posted in brinjal, dinner, eggplant, garlic, lunch, mushroom, olive oil, pesto, rosemary, shitake, summer, sundried tomato, thyme, tomato on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Summer in Toronto is one of the lustiest, I think, in the world. Those steamy, heat-hazy, lazy-crazy, long-limbed days that wrap their humid, whispering tendrils around your bare throat and exposed shoulders do something inexplicable to this city and the people in it. The girls, the boys, the dogs, the ducks: no one escapes [...]
The Simplest Things
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Often the simplest things in life can act as a band aid to a bruised and weary soul. A sudden scent of Lilac on a balmy summer evening after a crazy day; a long stroll through a pretty, gardened neighborhood after a cleansing spring shower; a fresh pot of tea at any time. But can [...]
