… mushrooms! We picked some chanterelles the other day and had an Exploits feast of mushrooms & mussels. There were plenty to be had. Sautéed in butter with a chicken-flavoured cream sauce over couscous. Delicious!
Category: food
Ferryland adventures; icebergs, interesting places, and an incredible picnic
Yesterday’s adventure took us to Ferryland via Brigus South and netted us two icebergs, a house and a half, a dropped shed, a marvelous picnic, a tired border collie, and a lighthouse pyramid. The second of the icebergs you can see above. It’s grounded in Ferryland Harbour and is absolutely spectacular. But the house and…
The Ice Cream Crazies
On the way back from our weekend trip, of which I have not yet relayed all the marvelous adventures, we stopped at the Riverside Restaurant in Cape Broyle for supper. Jasper order and devoured mussels and Katherine, after some initial disgust, tried one and fell in love. She is now planning some major mussel feasting…
Mardi, trop de Gras
It’s Shrove Tuesday and while no one in this house religiously celebrates either Easter or its antecedent, Lent, we always enjoy an excuse to eat pancakes. In our house while growing up, “Pancake Day” meant a feast of crêpes, those really flat pancake-like creatures that can be rolled up with an assortment of treasures inside…
A chocolatey post for Valentine’s Day
I posted this on my Facebook feed, but since FB is such a limited sphere of influence and since I can never find anything of importance that I’ve posted more than a week after I’ve posted it, I’m also posting it here, so that I can locate it again. It seemed topical, on this day…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 