Beef Rendang recipe
Like most things, there’s a story behind this recipe, but I’ll keep it short and sweet: Rob and I both lived in Ottawa for years (separately, then together). We also both went to a Malaysian...
View ArticleMilk & sour cream braised pork
Made this tonight, riffing on a recipe I stumbled across a while ago. I changed it up a lot (it originally had no sour cream, onions, or garlic), so I’m calling this my own! Woo! Ingredients pork loin...
View ArticleOlder stuff
For some reason, in 2016, I decided to delete my old blog posts and start fresh. It didn’t really take, so this blog has been more or less dead since then. I did, however, archive my old blog posts...
View ArticleWhat’s all this then?
With the Great Dissolution of the various social media networks, general consensus amongst the Old Skool is that it’s high time to get back to posting stuff on our own damned blogs, using RSS feeds,...
View Article2023 reading goals
I read a lot, but I also have a pretty extreme book acquisition habit. I recently cataloged the books I own but haven’t read (or that I want to re-read), both in physical and e-book form. That catalog...
View Article2023 book 1 : The Creak on the Stairs
Written by Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and translated by Victoria Cribb, The Creak on the Stairs is a slow burn of a mystery set in the small(ish) town of Akranes, Iceland. In it we’re introduced to Chief...
View ArticleCurrent book notes
I want to make more time to read, but I also have 400,000 other things I want to do. Also, you know, work and stuff. So it goes. While I haven’t been reading as much as I would like, I have still been...
View ArticleAll day bolognese
Decided to make bolognese, most of which will be frozen for future “I can’t be bothered to cook” days. Cobbled the recipe together from a few different sources. It is decidedly non-traditional, but...
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