What I Wish I Knew Before I Retired
Richard and I eat a variety of different types of foods, including meat, fish and dairy. As we were home alone for the majority of March, we tried to focus on eating meatless meals as much as possible. While I greatly enjoy plant-based meals, it can be easy to run out of ideas of what… Continue reading What’s On Your Plate? Meatless March!
When Google is not busy sending me endless lists of 'top books' of every kind, it inundates me with recipes it believes I should make. And before you say it -- I don't spend that much time scrolling. At least...I try not to (heavy sigh)! Anyway, last week Google pinged and shared this recipe reel.… Continue reading What’s On Your Plate – The ‘Google Breakfast’ Edition.
Richard and I just returned from a two-week stay in Mazatlan, Mexico. Our biggest takeaway was how many Canadians were there at the same time. Seriously, at the pool, on the bus, at restaurants, and at the airport, we repeatedly ran into other Canadians, many of them from our province of BC and many from… Continue reading Will the Last Canadian Heading Out This Way Please Turn off the Lights?
My friend, and WOYP cohost, gifted me this beautiful kobacha squash that she grew in her garden (she wrote about her garden kobachas here and here). At first I thought that I would use it as an autumn decoration. It was far too pretty to slice open. Then that nagging voice in my brain grew… Continue reading A Garden Gift
Can't get enough of bananas (or have a few you need to use up)?Can't get enough of Harry Chapin?Need a fun pick me up?Then this post is for you. Despite the rather awkward audience at the start of the video (seriously, was that the best they could get?), whatever you do, PLEASE. DO. NOT. SKIP.… Continue reading What’s On Your Plate – The ‘Go Bananas’ Edition
Recipe courtesy of The Girl Who Ate Everything.Alternative recipe here. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef
It all began with this mini-golf game. Looks harmless enough, right? Then someone suggested we make the game 'interesting.' The winner would get his/her choice of homemade dinner. The loser would make the full dinner from scratch. From the beginning, I had a good guess who that loser would be. I prepared early, singing my… Continue reading Winner, Winner, Steak Dinner!
While reading this book (review here), I got the idea to ask AI to help me use up some vegetables that were lingering in my fridge. So, I asked ChatGPT if it could suggest a recipe using: snap peas, cucumbers, black olives, bell pepper, red onion, garlic, tomatoes and feta cheese. Here was its (ultra-fast)… Continue reading What’s On Your Plate – ChatGPT!
This past month, Angela Liddon's Oh She Glows For Dinner was reviewed by our Cookbook Book Club. (I challenge you to repeat those last three words eight times quickly.) The reviews were mixed, but the recipes made were inspiring. So inspiring that I decided to be a copycat. But first up, my recipe review. Undercover… Continue reading What’s On Your Plate: Oh She Glows for Dinner
Advantages of Slow Cooker Meals: I am a huge fan of using a slow cooker all year round. The big draw is that I can get dinner prep out of the way early, set it and forget it. The slow cooker does all of the heavy lifting. Long, low temperatures help flavours to pop and… Continue reading What’s In Your Slow Cooker? #askingforafriend
Retirement Reflections 