Ontario autumn 🍁 #artes#groupofseven#ontario#ago#canada#autumnleaves#artes#toronto A post shared by Mari Rustan (@mary_of_silence) on Oct 25, 2017 at 2:37pm PDT Photo provided by @Mary_of_Silence I don’t know if it is my state of mind or if it really is so, but the fall foliage is especially beautiful this year. I see paintings everywhere I go. The light…
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A Delicious 88 Acres: Nut-Free Snacking
“He eats like a bird.” is often said with a scrunched-up nose and a bit of a snarl. With 88 Acres though, eating like a bird is a good thing especially if you can find a bag of their incredibly addictive, smart, and delicious chocolate and sea salt seednola. 88 Acres is an interesting company….
Screaming Labor Day Ice Cream Cake Recipe (Sponsored)
We’re screaming because it is a party and every party needs a little noise. We’re screaming because summer is coming to an end. We’re screaming for ice cream and we’ll continue enjoying it year-round to remember all those great summer days. This is the perfect dessert for your Labor Day BBQ because it is so…
The Sacred Cod’s Roasted Beet and Baby Kale Salad (Recipe)
On Tuesdays we head out to the Lindentree Farm in Lincoln to pick up our weekly farm share. This time of year, we are treated with an abundance of raspberries, some nice alliums and of course plenty of beets and kale. Over on the Cape, the Chatham Bars Inn, which has an 8 acre farm…
Design: From Gallery to Fashion to Food
I admit I am not really sure how someone has a “good eye” or an eye for design. I think some of it is based on experience but in part it must just be something you are born with. It is also could be just what some individuals notice and others don’t see. This summer…
Recipes Gather Here
I am not one to get hung up on my age or aging. But there is something that is really beginning to bug me. It is not the grey hairs unveiling themselves upon my head. It’s not the odd aches I get on a rainy day. It is not the fact that I have to…
Borrowed Heirlooms: Spring Salad Recipe from Chef Ed Hoffey
When Heirloom Kitchen first opened, I got a chance to sample some of what they would be serving for fall. Now that spring is officially here, Chef Hoffey has shared one of his favourite ways to celebrate this season of awekening with one of my favourite ingredients: pea tendrils. Well, okay my favourite ingredient is…
Simple Blood Orange and Avocado Salad (Recipe)
This week I learned a new term for something I’ve been doing for years. To supreme. It is how you cut the orange for this recipe. You remove the peel by cutting the top and bottom of the orange flat then gliding the knife from top to bottom all around until peeled. Then you slice…
Starting Simple – Green Smoothie (Recipe)
It is a new year and my fridge is somewhere between bare and simply stocked with the basics. It is winter so a bowl of citrus is sitting in the kitchen counter for my favourite winter indulgence: Fresh squeezed orange juice. Ingredients: 2 juice oranges a handful of blueberries a handful of baby kale Blend…
Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters 