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Sweet Retreat
Re-imagine your yard as an outdoor oasis. Perfect for parties, or an intimate evening for two. A weekend trip to Buffalo, New York changed the way I view my humble backyard. Last summer I toured 30 private gardens, part of the National Garden Festival, the largest free garden walk in the United States. The festival, [READ MORE]
@ Pinot Gris
@mikedicaro Michael Di Caro 09 Thirty Bench P. Gris: Pear, peach, floral notes & interesting use of oak but it still hasn’t managed to turn me on to PG #30dayslocal There it was. A simple tweet typed out and sent in seconds to no one in particular, just one among the hundreds of thousands that [READ MORE]
Grape X
It’s not always the wine that excites me, it’s the journey it takes to get in my glass — from vine, to bud, to flower, to grape, to harvest, to crusher, to fermentation, to barrel, to bottle and finally to my mouth. We take the journey lightly, letting Mother Nature, viticulturists and winemakers do all [READ MORE]
Patio Make-Over
So there we were, hubby and I, sadly staring out at our backyard ten years after promising we’d do something about the expanse of asphalt that posed as a patio. It was truly hideous – now more than ever. Years of cycling from frozen winters to sweltering summers have caused the asphalt to heave, crack [READ MORE]

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Restaurant Secrets
Home cooks are always seeking the exciting. But complicating the cooking process in search of a flavour boost appears formidable to most. The truth is that we’re intimidated by lengthy or complex recipes, and even those whiz-bang television personalities who promise it’s simple. The result of our efforts never quite turn out as we hope. [READ MORE]
Canadian Craft Beer
Before I was a wine lover, I was (and still am) a beer lover. I drank a lot of beer while going to university, and while the large commercial breweries dominated the market, a couple of small (at the time) microbreweries (Granville Island and Big Rock) began producing beers that stepped outside the flavour box [READ MORE]
Somewhereness
Ontario Pinot Noir shares sense of place at Chianti Rufina tasting in Florence Attending tastings of Canadian wines has become somewhat routine, but the Ontario Pinot Noir tasting I attended recently felt monumental. It was held in the beautiful Palazzo Borghese in the heart of Florence’s historic centre, and the wines were poured to a [READ MORE]

Passion Beach
Shake all ingridients with ice, strain into ice filled highball glass, add some nice fresh fruit on the rim of the glass.
Hurricane flint
Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass and serve.

Cinco de Mayo
For a long time I thought Mexican restaurants didn’t rinse their dishes properly. There seemed to be an odd soapy flavour to the food. When I started cooking Mexican food in my own kitchen, I realized the Palmolive aftertaste was cilantro. There is some evidence that hypersensitivity to cilantro’s soapy essence is genetic. In short, [READ MORE]
What A Crock!
As a happy newlywed (a role I have played unsuccessfully several times), I was extremely proud of my decked-out kitchen. Back in the old days, long before Chuck Williams of Sonoma migrated east, the homemaker in the know had a precious small appliance that was a time-saving miracle: The slow cooker. Time-saving? The very thought [READ MORE]
Five Things To See Before You Dine
The Before You Die books make me nervous. There are a number of them in the series, such as 1001 Movies To See Before You Die, 1001 Places To Go Before You Die and so forth. The whole notion makes me jittery because there’s the erroneous implication that I am, indeed, going to die. Moi? [READ MORE]
Get your juice on!
It started with a glass of lemonade. Not just any lemonade, mind you, but the homemade kind, with a fat, fresh lemon squeezed right into the glass. Sugar to taste, cold water and a handful of ice cubes. Perfection. This simple glass of lemonade launched my culinary quest for the summer. If I had placed [READ MORE]