They’re hardly dramatic, in fact you could go so far as to call them kinda boring. But what makes these 5 tips revolutionary to me is that they’re so EASY — you can’t help but to adopt them into your everyday routine. And feel better for it.
Smug, actually.
Foraged food under the snow? Sure! After a recent snowfall, I walked down the road a bit to Magic Lake, where I found loads of bright green watercress ripe and ready under a fresh blanket of white stuff.
Watercress grows year ’round in aquatic and semi-aquatic environments. It is chock full of iron, calcium and folic acid as well as Vitamins A and C, and is one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. Its slightly bitter taste is reminiscent of mustard greens or radish, which explains why it has fallen out of favour with our sugar-addicted pallets of today.
Unlike in love, a little bit of bitterness can be a good thing when it comes to taste.
Just about everything I know about eggs I learned from my Dad.
My Mom cooked everything that came out of the kitchen of my childhood — except on Sunday mornings. That was when Mom would put her feet up in the “den” while Dad and I took over the kitchen to make breakfast, which was mostly a variation on the same 3 basics: bacon, toast and eggs. Your choice of fried, scrambled or coddled (he didn’t do poached).
My favourite Christmas baking of all time!
Except they’re not baked, they’re fried.
Which, of course, explains why they’re my fave.
If the moon was made of cheese, this picture would make more sense on a food blog.
As it is, I`m feeling pretty lucky to have even gotten a glimpse of the first Solstice Lunar Eclipse visible in North America since 1638 — the moon disappeared behind the clouds about 2 minutes after I snapped this, and was gone for the rest of the night.
Happy Solstice everyone! It only gets lighter from here… … Continue Reading
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