Archive | December, 2008

Waiting to inhale (or how I got breakfast for a buck)

Some last minute holiday shopping and try as I might, can’t avoid the mall. Here’s the strategy, says my wife.  We’ll get up early, go somewhere for breakfast, and hit the stores before throngs of shoppers choke the aisles. I like it.  It’s worked for us in the past.  And there’s no better motivator for [...]

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Five years of Flavours

There are a couple of reasons I eagerly anticipate my visits to the LC. First, I love just wandering the aisles, looking for new products to try.  Second, seeing whether the latest issues of two top-notch, complimentary  food magazines have come out–Flavours and Ciao! The holiday issue of Flavours Magazine hit the shelves this week, [...]

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Too many cooks in the kitchen

Too much wine, limited ingredients, one dull knife and too many cooks in the kitchen. A recipe for disaster? Think again.  It was a riotous night that led to the best vegetarian quesadillas I’ve ever had. Of course they were the only vegetarian quesadillas I’ve ever had, but they were darn good quesadillas at that!

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