Sometimes I just don’t have the guts to deal with whole fish.  I’ve never wholly regained my bravado since the Saturday in 2002 when my kind and thoughtful brother, on the way home from his job delivering spanking fresh fish to temples of gastronomy The River Café, J. Sheekey, Moro, Gordon Ramsay, The Ivy et al, dropped

In the hope that the sun shines bright enough to make a lycopene boost imperative, I bring you my easy but delicious version of Gazpacho

Just a little list of the top 10 things I want to do this summer with MLM or would like to do given the time, money and / or energy: 01. Picnic at the park - complete with cute picnic basket, kite flying and a yummy dessert. I have actually never been on a picnic so

All-campus picnic! I had something I needed to finish, so I walked over with MBWF about twenty minutes after the scheduled start time, prompting choruses of “Wait. Aren’t you going to the picnic?” from confused coworkers passing through my office. I loaded up my plate–taking the tofu dog largely because I wanted a platform for

This weekend, my extended family came up from Calgary to go see Body Worlds and instead of tagging along, I made the food for an evening BBQ. Catering the non-meat dishes for 8 meat-eaters (plus Sean and me) at a BBQ was a super fun challenge, and the next four posts will be a sampling

When British Catherine McGuigan was doing some home improvement, some of the workmen got more than they bargained for. While digging in the backyard, they found human bones. Authorities came and investigated; eventually 40 skeletons were dug up, all more than 100 years old. No criminal investigation is ordered; somebody a hundred years ago got

Hello folks so here is an update from the past weekend.  You’ll have to excuse me my blogging might be a little wild and off kilter today I have had about 10 cups of coffee and I am firing on all pistons at the moment….As for a little update, I was out of town again

“Getting to know you…getting to know all about you.” I am aquainting myself with the Canon s5. Frustrated, last week, with wind while taking super macro shots I headed to the beach to take landscapes. This is a classic lighthouse shot taken from Picnic Rocks looking toward McCarty’s Cove.

The extra B is for Bbleu d’Auvergne. I came to the realization the other day that for once, the stars had aligned properly and I had all the components of a BLT sandwich in the kitchen at one time (well, except the bread, which takes all of 3 minutes to run down to the corner and buy). 

The Picnic – Today is in fact international picnic day! I love a picnic. They are a simple yet superior way of entertaining both intimate and large crowds. Picnics can be casual pot-lucks for a crowd or intimate suppers a deux. There are a few products one needs for superior picnics. First, depending on the size,