This blog is an incredible learning experience, I feel that I have learned more about the internet, facebook and twitter in the last week than I did in the last 10 years – like how to add a YouTube video to emphasize or enhance a post! So many people – family and friends new and […]
Hope that this will have been worth the wait! Warm gingerbread, topped with butter, is one of my favourite childhood desserts, the deep sweetness of cinnamon, ginger and cloves enhanced by rich molasses and contrasted with the cool, slightly salty butter that I top mine with – divine! I found this recipe which I hadn’t […]
For those of you keeping track, I know I promised you gingerbread and gingerbread you will get by the end of today! A promise is a promise. But on Day 5 of Mental Illness Awareness Week (learn more at http://www.miaw.ca/) I`d like to talk about the importance of reaching out – both reaching out to help […]
My plan was to make Nova Scotia Gingerbread my next blog, but this morning’s local paper, The Chronicle Herald, published a front page article detailing some Vital Signs on the health of Nova Scotians and the one that jumped out at me was this: “63.7% don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables.” We grow a delicious […]
Welcome to my first At Least I Can Cook – Let’s Eat post! It’s a rainy, balmy Sunday in Bedford, NS (near Halifax) – Ophelia, the hurricane du jour is tickling our shores, bringing rain, showers, fog and humid weather – almost summer in October which is okay since we didn’t have any summer in […]
Both personally exhilarating and scary to be launching a blog at all, I’ve timed the launch this week to coincide with and highlight Mental Illness Awareness Week, MIAW, October 2 – 8, 2011, coordinated by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health. For some of you, it may seem odd that I’m combining […]