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I like my kids the way I like my food: raw and untainted. It’s fine for any adult to be motivated to make healthy lifestyle choices, but if you’re a parent – and a parent of three – you’re making these choices for other people too. . .and you have to be prepared for resistance [...]
It was Friday, April 25th, 2003: DaddyH and I had rented a couple of movies for the weekend, from the local Vietnamese video store. We were watching Session 9, not the best movie for a new mom to see (check it out, if you must know why). I remember sitting on the edge of my [...]
My daughter is two today! And she is officially a girl. She has spent the last year and a half playing with her older brothers’ toys – Transformers, trains, cars, light sabers, swords, guns and, most recently, Lego. She’s always had fun with them. She’s never known anything else. She has also always worn her [...]
We’re eating enormous amounts of fresh raw food from the garden. Every day we take a bushel basket and head down to collect the daily harvest; we come back with our bellies full and our basket wanting. No dishes! And the kids love it because they think there’s something naughty about ‘stealing’ food right off [...]
The oven works! However, we only lasted week before I started shopping for a portable electric burner. The first one I bought turned out to be a dud; I returned it to the store the following day. It was another week or so before I found a very funky, but sturdy, double burner, and I snatched it up for [...]
It’s been an amazing week for gardening, weather wise. On Monday, I sowed cilantro, green pole beans, yellow bush beans and shelling peas. I also finally transplanted my ailing onions and leeks, and my stellar parsley; they should have been put in the ground ages ago. Wednesday, I sowed more beets and carrots; also chard, corn [...]
The basics of ‘how to juice’ are in every manual and at every keyboard; what is harder to find is real advice on how to convert. Chunky jungle juice is NOT a necessary evil on the path to better health. I found this out the hard way. Of course, my definition of “chunky jungle juice” has changed [...]
I’m taking a hiatus from raw recipe searching. Too many of them are too elaborate or they contain ingredients that are too expensive or too hard to find. So I’m making a list: What do I not need to give up? What am I doing right so far? Here is the answer: raw fruits of all [...]
My favourite basic fish recipe. Broiled Trout 1 lb trout fillets 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup lemon juice 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp paprika salt and pepper to taste Preheat broiler. Brush a baking pan or dish with oil. Place the fish in the pan in a single layer. Mix remaining ingredients in a [...]
It is usually a struggle to get a decent rink made in time for Christmas. We bought a rink kit a few years ago, but without the right kind of weather, it still won’t work. Some years, winter arrives early with a huge dumping of snow in late November, but it’s often just a lot of [...]
Our first was born with what some health professionals may have called a “mild deformity”. He had bruising across one side of his face (fine), a flattened ear (common), and a foot that was bent up to his shin. Hmmm. The midwives weren’t concerned; the baby had simply ‘maxed out’ the space given to him in …
A word about baby poop. Like most middle-class North Americans, I was first taught how to change a baby’s diaper using a disposable. The procedure involved removing the wet or dirty diaper, wiping with disposable wipes, and fastening a new diaper on the fresh clean baby. The diaper was then folded up tightly into a [...]
Better late than never. The best time of year to make baby food is late summer or early fall. Peaches, followed by apples and pears, reach their peak at this time, and these flavours are always well received. If you are new to canning, then making baby food is a good way to …
I had to shake up the routine today, so I did three things I haven’t done in a long time: I made a big batch of granola. It’s different every time, but this time, it’s awesome. I made a quiche, which turned out to be the most perfect quiche I’ve ever done. The butter pastry [...]
I don’t ever remember October being this dark and wet. Unpredictable, yes, but never consistently dreary and damp. The annual golf tournament at the cottage is held on Thanksgiving weekend. It’s always a roll of the die as to what the weather will be like. We’ve had Indian Summer and we’ve had blistering …
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