I know that hot chocolate is best made from scratch, using chocolate squares and hot cream or milk. But there are times in the winter when I want a hot chocolate, and I don’t want to spend more than a couple of minutes on it. Enter quick, easy hot chocolate. In each mug, mix together [...]

When we picked up our chicks, our girls asked what we were going to do with them.  Hubby and I explained that we would cuddle them while they were small, but that soon they would be very big and unfriendly chickens … and that we would eventually eat them. Our youngest, Charlotte, was silent for [...]

Our friends, who raise chickens in their backyard, invited us to invest in fifteen chicks that will be raised for the freezer. Today was the chick pick-up day.  The chicks, which hatched only yesterday, arrived in a cardboard box.  Our girls were thrilled to have a box of peeping chicks in between them as we [...]

If, like me, you haven’t been able to watch Food Inc yet, you might be interested in watching it online at CBC.ca. It’s a sobering documentary that examines the food system from a number of angles. It’s also a hopeful one in that it shows how much we consumers can change things by making different [...]

Last year wrought a lot of changes in my own view of food, and by extension, the kind of food my family eats. I went from thoughtless grocery store spending to buying food because it was cheap … to eventually buying food because it was good for us. And good food, I’ve found, is close [...]

I’ve learned that the job description for a mother includes the ability to ice cakes and cupcakes.  This is NOT a natural skill for me. My cake-decorating adventures have been made a whole lot easier, however, by finding this great icing recipe.  So for everyone else out there who has suddenly found themselves expected to [...]