When I was growing up instant hot chocolate was years in the future. With long, damp winters on Vancouver Island, hot steaming mugs of hot chocolate were in constant demand (especially if your parents didn’t allow youngsters coffee!). Making hot chocolate with Fry’s Cocoa may take an extra minute but
Author: Mark
Dinner Lunch
Ambrosia Salad
In ancient Greek mythology, Ambrosia is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods, often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumes it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine
Beverages
Coffee Elixir of Life
(From the pages of ‘Teeswater.ca’, an online newspaper I published a few years back) In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running. – Jeff Bezos What is it about coffee that brings out the best (and worst) of us? That makes
Dinner Lunch
Quick and Easy Quiche
Ingredients: Preparation: Makes 8 medium to large or 16 small slices. Ingredients that have worked well for me as fillings include a cup of lightly fried bacon, yellow and red peppers, mushrooms, frozen mixed vegetables (especially peas), fried diced sausage, 1/2 inch squares of sliced ham. ** most recipes tell
Poetry
Win
Cross the field scrabbling muddy from the brookwe run on oblivious to the painshooting bolts of electricityup and down the shattered tendons in our legsor the burning lungs that remind usto quit smoking next week. To the forest surging, a wave of sweating bodiesmoving forward on the tide of our
Words Worth
Petrichor
Each raindrop fallsa miniature explosionin the dustshooting tiny parcelsof scent skywardin the breezeto hint a promiseof hope beneaththe blackened hillsbeyond the wildfire. (thinking of my home province thirsting for rain in a terrible fire season) Petrichor – the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. Each raindrop seems to burst forth a million