Repeat after me – “Earworms are not evil”. There, feel better now? Earworms, for the uninitiated, are those lovely songs that once heard rattle around in your brain for hours, days, years even – kind of like Tinnitus with a tune. Some earworms are actually quite good, others stick just
Dinner
Spicy Curried Squash Soup
I like Curried Anything – spicy and sweet preferred. With the weather turning cooler and rainy today, what a fine chance to haul out my soup pot and make something to take the chill away. This recipe will serve 6 comfortably (we three had two bowls each and there was
Dinner
Honey Garlic Sauce
We eat a lot of chicken – legs, breasts, thighs, whole, wings – so I am constantly looking at ways to tweak the experience. I might add I am also a BIG fan of Chinese cuisine, something about those late night runs to Foo Hong back in the Victoria days.
Dinner
The Infamously Simple & Delicious Cabbage Soup
It seems odd to be thinking about hot, hearty soups in August, but here in Ottawa the turn of the calendar to the 8th month has brought about a distinct change in the weather. Last week we had daytime highs in the high 30’s, this week it barely tops 20.
Poetry
Beauty Inside – Áilleacht taobh istigh
Beauty insideglowinglike a radiofrom 1943cracklingthrough the etherlike a love songbehind barbed wirerebelcrazybeauty stampedlike a placardheld highproud to behuman……a herothe Pope hatedand left usshattered ml’23 (Listening to ‘Black Boys on Mopeds’ by the divine Sinead O’Connor)