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Guilt-free morning-after
Okay, in all honesty, some morning-afters aren’t guilt-free. However, for the most part, a quick snuggle, joint shower, and then breakfast together is a great way to spend the first part of a Saturday morning.
So what’s this ‘guilt-free’ business?
After all those ‘Happy New Years’, ‘Merry Christmases’, and ‘Happy Hanukahs’, the only post-Auld Lang Syne thoughts you’ll be thinking will be about those extra ten pounds you packed on during the break.
Well, not really – but what is realistic is that an awful lot of people make the ol’ ‘be healthier’, ‘lose weight’, ‘work out more’ types of resolutions. And the easiest way to break these decrees of determination? Peer pressure. Especially a ‘peer’ who eats with you and encompasses your free time.
Last night, Bobby seemed like a great choice, and this morning, you smile as you wake up to the smell of breakfast cooking. As you make your way downstairs, he turns with a grin in front of the stove, frying up bacon and eggs, spreading thick slabs of butter on thickly sliced white bread, heaping sugar and cream into a cup of coffee, and heating up danishes in the oven. “I thought we’d munch on this and watch a couple of movies,” he says congenially.
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Warm coffee and a hot chocolate to cuddle up with
The nip in the air calls for cozy fare… Dates filled with mitten-clad hand-holding and cold-nose canoodling are peaking their (chilly) heads. Although it’s a delight to go together to visit your favourite barista and pay him/her (too) many dollars for two delicious, hot and steamy drinks, you can easily save yourself a little cash by heading home and getting hot and steamy by yourselves.
Puddin’ for Your Puddin’
Nothing says “comfy, cozy, late autumn night in” like a bowlful o’ puddin’. A relative of custard, this creamy concoction has been a part of the North American palette for, well, ever. However, at one time (think: days when jousting was popular, you were “m’Lord” or “m’Lady,” and castles were the chic place to live), puddings were mostly meat-based.
You know– your average head cheese pudding.*
All right readers, it’s time for YOUR say.
All right readers, it’s time for YOUR say.
I want to know what stirs your pot. Better yet, I want to know what you are in dire of need in that big ol’ pot… That you don’t know how to make.
So here’s the deal: Ponder the questions below and give ‘er the ol’ copy and paste to my email
me, you, and a pumpkin or two
If it’s all right with you, I’d like to paint you a picture. Close your eyes, and imagine:
The wind, gently rustling the leaves on the trees – reds, yellows, greens, and oranges, beautiful fall colours filling the large maples and oaks. Browned leaves fluttering towards the ground, forming piles that are just yearning to be frolicked through.
You’re wearing a large, cozy over-sized hand-knit sweater, with some sort of appropriate northern Ontario-based animal etched into it (read: Deer? Moose? Opossum?
Your cheeks are a slight, rosy pink, flushed with the excitement of your company, but also with the slight Autumn chill in the air.
The perfect weather, the perfect moments… And finding the perfect pumpkin.
Okay, enough of that. But what is better on a beautiful Autumn afternoon, then heading to the local pumpkin patch and having some harvest merriment?
“Local pumpkin patches?” You repeat, perplexed. In downtown Toronto? Not as far-fetched as you might think. Check out Pumpkin Patches and More (http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/CATOpumpkins.php) for a huge list of places close to you (and all over the world). Not only can you pick those perfect pumpkins, but hay rides, hot chocolate and corn roasts are on the menu.
Thankful for love, friends, family and food.
Holidays are that time in relationships where it gets a little tricky. Of course, spending time with family is the ultimate goal (most of the time) – or at least with some close friends – but you have to add in this new relationship, too.
Here comes all of the options: Celebrate it together? Apart? His house? Her house? Dad’s? Grandma’s?
I mean, one can only have so many Thanksgiving dinners, right? (We know that isn’t true).
You won’t be a zsammgsuffa* with this menu!
Two weeks of beer, mass amounts of heart food, and celebration.
Welcome to Oktoberfest.
This two-week-plus festival is held each year in Germany, with over six million people attending. Similar events happen with Germans celebrating just the same. After living for four years in Kitchener-Waterloo, I definitely got a taste of their traditions! (And beer. And food.)
red delicious, golden delicious… so delicious
I love Ontario for its fresh, local goodness. I’ve mentioned it before, but really – you can’t beat a good bite straight from your garden (or local farmer’s market). This week’s celebration of Autumn definitely puts the taste of apple pie in my mouth. I sit here in glee thinking about the fabulous produce in my kitchen, waiting to get prepared in a million ways.
Or, you know, eaten.
Lucky for us, in Ontario we have fourteen fabulous varieties of apples.
You’re probably familiar with:
hey there, honey
It can be frustrating in a new relationship than adapting and learning different cultures. But like in ALL aspects of life (that’s right, ALL), food can win over the coldest of hearts.
