Posts Tagged: Food and Drink
My Recollection Of Pizzaria Tomaso, 1984
Posted by on Saturday, April 6, 2013 in - leave a comment
So, this was dessert. We made a stack of pizzas tonight. This was the last one. I even have the blister on the back of my wrist where I brushed the hot oven wall to prove it. But apple pizza? Thirty years ago in the north end of Halifax, Nova Scotia there was Pizzeria Tomaso with Mr. Tomaso still …
Garden 2012: Root Vegetables For Thanksgiving Dinner
Posted by on Sunday, October 7, 2012 in - leave a comment
Three types of carrots. The smaller ones to be roasted with olive oil. The bigger ones will be shredded and mixed with parsley, garlic and rice wine vinegar in a salad. Add to that swiss chard with tarragon and orange zest as well as box choi with fish sauce and lime juice. Not to mention small …
Garden 2012: Making Meals From The Harvest
Posted by on Sunday, September 23, 2012 in - leave a comment
Yellow carrots. Small onions. Mine. Bought the seeds for the carrots in early March from Stokes. The variety is Yellowbunch and the seeds cost $2.25 a packet. Been eating them for likely 2 months now. Next year I am buying ten times as much. I believe I planted the carrots from May 5 until …
Garden 2012: French White Wine Grapes And Raspberries
Posted by on Sunday, June 3, 2012 in - leave a comment
When you plant a garden, you really should be thinking about meals. Today, the meal I was thinking of happens in 2021 or so when I have my own white wine from our own vines and a raspberry pie from our own canes. The grapes may have paid for themselves by then. Sure, it will all be for nothing if …
Your Friday Bullet Points For The End of April
Posted by on Friday, April 27, 2012 in - 2 comments
Did you miss these bullet points? Fridays have been hard lately. Or at least I have lost all imagination. I think that may be it. Or there are four to six kids in the house at any one time. I am liking the garden blogging. Gar-logging? I miss 2004. When poeple pretended blogging would change the …
Garden 2012: Peas Are In The Ground... Repeat... Peas Are...
Posted by on Monday, April 9, 2012 in - 2 comments
Easter long weekend saw an assault on nature or at least that sort of nature that exists in a mid-60s subdivision. We have great plans to eat where we did mow so the following tasks were undertaken: • ♦ • ugly basketball hoop with sun-rotted plastic base disassembled; • ♦ awkward juniper …
Friday Bullets For The Week Of The Blackout
Posted by on Friday, January 13, 2012 in - 2 comments
The power went out. From 3 pm to midnight yesterday. Sat around in one room for the evening and marveled at the power of the battery. I tweeted and listened to radio. Ice was to blame. Ice from the sky. Fortunately, it appears to have rained all night washing away the coating. A few trees in the …
Friday Bullets For Yet Another New Year
Posted by on Friday, January 6, 2012 in - 2 comments
Why do we moan about another birthday but not New Years? Consider the alternative. It's me and the cat this week and I have been inordinately busy. The electrician has been in. The stash now has a light switch thanks to the electricians coming in on Wednesday. One wall has one coat of light sandy …
Friday Bullets For Another Day Without A Voice
Posted by on Friday, November 18, 2011 in - 6 comments
This bug goes on. Sputter and wheeze was this week's treat. Got X-rays shot through my chest. Never speak of X-ray. X-rays. They are many. I am now off speaking. Hard to do with five kids in the house. Lots of arm motions required. But an 8 month old is not strong on responding to arm motions …
Friday Bullets For The Days Of The Great Cold
Posted by on Friday, October 14, 2011 in - 4 comments
Aches. Pains. Grimaces just like in the aspirin ads. I think it's over. It's been ten days. That's enough. I like the idea of the common cold - bundling up, laying in bed. Rum punch and bonbons... well do that, right? Well, it wasn't like that. But it's at least Friday. Sick Friday is better than …
