Flutterby for Enlightening Ideas about Living your Best Life
Today Ann and I are hosting a farewell dinner for Eva who is moving to 100 Mile House next month from beautiful Canoe Pass Village here in Ladner. For dinner we are serving fresh West Coast sockeye salmon stuffed with crab and shrimp, along with Mom’s potato salad and a green bean (Brechbohnen in German) […]
This simple recipe was adapted from one I found on the Food & Wine website. This recipe called for cilantro but it wasn’t available here so I substituted it with fresh spinach and basil. The original recipe was twice the size so I reduced it by half and adjusted some of the spices as […]
Yes these muffins have everything but the refrigerator in them but the cool thing is that you can keep the batter in the fridge for up to 6 weeks and make them in small batches so they are always fresh. Who wouldn’t want a fresh baked muffin in the morning and they only take 15 […]
Here we are and it’s September 1st, our first labour day weekend at the cottage and another Canadian summer has come to an end (well at least for anyone with students going to school). But this year we don’t have to pack up our things and head back to BC. It seems strange to see […]
As the weather here in Ontario hoovers around 15 degrees Celsius and it feels more like Fall than the middle of Summer, it is time to pull out the crock pot and make some comfort food on this cold blustery day. Last week I did a big grocery trip to Owen Sound where there is […]
So all you BC’er’s must be getting pretty tired of all that great summer weather you have been having. What M and I have noticed is that when the weather is hot and sunny in B.C. then Ontario’s weather is the opposite and this year is no exception. Everyone here has been moaning about the […]
My first project when we returned to Florida in early April was to update and clean the patio furniture that was left behind by the previous owners. The furniture was sturdy and we liked the fact that the chairs swiveled, so we decide to refurbish them. The chairs were in reasonably good condition except they […]
After purchasing our new home on December 31st, I returned to BC to house sit for three months in Victoria. M stayed in Florida for the month of January to take out the old kitchen and remove the tile floors to expose the original terrazzo floors. Terrazzo floors were popular in Florida homes built in […]
It’s time again for a great summer salad that works well on it’s own or as a side for any summer meal. Last week I had a two mangoes, an avocado and a red pepper in my fridge and needed to find a recipe that was easy to put together without the usual conveniences of […]
My apologies for taken such a long time to post anything about our last day of driving on our road trip from Victoria BC to Saint Petersburg, Florida. So we left Victoria, BC on March 25, 2014 and arrived in St. Petersburg on April 2, 2014. Our last day of driving was probably our shortest […]
