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Today was all about peaches. Well, not quite, but I’ll get to the other thing. Our peach tree is still laden with deliciousness and I have been picking judiciously so that I get them when they’re ripe, just before they drop or get sampled by creatures, trying not to pick so many that I can’t [...]

The market this Saturday morning, plus the loaded peach tree beside the garage, inspired me to spend the day in the kitchen dealing with fruit, vegetables and flour. The peaches became jam, my second batch because I did a sugarless one for Bob yesterday; the vegetables became ratatouille, destined for various uses; and the flour [...]

I am starting two online courses next Monday, but I’ll leave discussion of them for another post once they’re really underway. Just preliminary stuff happening in them this week. Today was really mostly about peaches. I have been monitoring the crop on our tree and decided that enough were ripe today to go out with [...]

Michael Hyatt is one of a number of bloggers I follow for inspiration. His perfect moment post is a message I welcome, no matter how often I hear it. I had one of those moments as I came upstairs this evening to check on the oranges I was cooking. The whole kitchen smelled of Spanish [...]

We did a turkey this year, to celebrate our first fully celebrated Christmas in this house, and I decided to brine it. The directions came from a noted chef who shared his recipe in The Globe and Mail, and the timing appealed to me. I picked up the fresh turkey at the Owen Sound market [...]

Long weekends are pretty exciting around here. Bob headed out of town with Lucy to commune with the trees in the bit of Bruce County wilderness we own while I chose to stay home to take care of the remaining livestock. Friday evening’s highlight was harvesting worm compost. I got about three small buckets of [...]

A few days ago I encountered a foreign object in a container of yogurt. I thought at the time that I should report it, but almost passed on the idea because it seemed too much trouble. Finally, I went to the manufacturer’s website, not optimistic that it would be helpful. Boy, was I wrong. Their [...]

Today’s post is my homage to a cheese, a very special selection I discovered a couple of days ago called brin d’amour, translated by some as “a wisp of love” and also sometimes called fleur de maquis. Well, never mind how you say it, to eat it is a divine experience. I found it at [...]