Today was George Brown College’s Chefs in the City™ 2009, an annual cooking competition for senior high school students. The students have approximately 6 weeks in which to prepare for the competition by doing research and deciding on what they’ll serve, at which point they’ll cook and bake on the day itself and present their …
Monthly Archive: February 2009
Feb 24 2009
Room by room, we're slowly getting there
Finally, we’re finished repainting the guest bedroom! Not only did we have to repaint the walls, but there were also a few bumps and cracks here and there that needed to be sanded and filled. There was also a huge hole in the ceiling from a couple of months ago. What happened there? I hear …
Feb 16 2009
Eggs Florentine for breakfast
But without the English muffins and spinach. Or the eggs, for that matter. And it looked so bloody good, I just had to take a picture of it. El Franco put a whole new vegan spin on the popular brunch item this sunny Monday morning, as we awoke to the second Family Day in Ontarian …
Feb 14 2009
Careful – I bite!
Ricky York is anti-Valentine’s Day. I know this because on February 13th I went (yet again!) to Statlers Bar in Boystown to watch my friend sing. After announcing a couple of months ago that her singing career had come to a close and that she was throwing in the towel, she nevertheless decided to make …
Feb 12 2009
Darwin Day 2009
Happy Darwin Day! Today marks the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882), the famous British biologist who proposed the theory of evolution* and who, in 1859, published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Darwin’s theory has stood the test of time (not to mention direct observation) to …
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I was born in England, spent part of my childhood in Zambia and eventually immigrated to Canada. This is a blog about the news and events in my life, my interests in politics, religion, human rights, science, reason, and the odd post here and there about my cats.
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