I sort of followed a recipe.  It came out REALLY bitter.

Any/all suggestions/thoughts/opinions are welcome.

It's a cold curried cucumber soup with mint ginger pesto.

Soup:
English cuke (somewhat bitter too, though peeled)
Watercress (I'm fairly certain I put in too much!)
Green onion (I used red onion)
Grated ginger (I used more)
Garlic (I used more)
Curry ( Read more... )

Firstly, they are not "foreigner[s]," but mostly Tamil-Canadians and Residences. Moreover, under the terms of International Law as spelled out in the United Nations Charter, there is a certain measure of responsibility which all ought to have nations toward one another--- particularly when it comes to conflicts which threaten the "international ( Read more... )

TOTALLY worth watching!!!

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

http://www.storyofstuff.com/anotherway.html

There has been a relatively high-profile court case in Ontario involving an HIV-positive man who did not disclose his status to his sexual partners, and subsequently two ex-partners have died of AIDS-related cancers and seven women have tested HIV-positive.

He was found guilty.

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Message from the Stoddart Family Farm from Little Britain, Ontario.

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My WHAT a day!

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Okay, so I'm getting better at this creating/cooking/baking thing, and it's starting to stress me out.  What to do?  I suspect I'm better in the food area than the education area, but how am I to know?  What will make me happiest?  Combo of the two?  The Tex Mex rub with the homemade BBQ sauce was SUPER DUPER!!!  Mind you, the garlic roasted ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm Jewish.

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ALMOST all the baking and cooking are put away.

The soup is away for now.

The chili is away for now.

Almost all the Thickies, brownies, gingerbread and butter triple ginger cookies are away.

Yay.

I'm exhausted.

Time for....

I have used 8 cups of sugar, 18 cups of flour, 6 bags of Skor bits, 9 cups of chocolate chips, two packages of sugar cones...and the world will have Thickies!!!

I will also be making gingerbread that is equally ginger, bread and heavenly.

Flourless brownies as well.

Dim Sum and schoolwork are probably on the horizon too.

Oh ya, and Jodi comes home ( Read more... )