On a sunny weekend in April, Ryan and I walked down Ossington for pho in Toronto. Golden Turtle Restaurant, or Rùa Vàng, is one of two Vietnamese restaurants on the Ossington strip, and our brother says it’s a front for the Vietnamese mafia. Could be, since they only take cash. But the pho is amazing.
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Kabocha no Nimono – Japanese Simmered Pumpkin
Homemade Japanese dishes are often variations on a few cooking styles – one of the simplest and tastiest is the simmered dish. Here, I made Japanese simmered pumpkin with dense, buttery kabocha squash, which is not only tasty, but the cooked peel is edible! You can use the basic broth to cook potato, sweet potato, daikon, […]
Meinhilde’s Travel Plans for 2015
Tomiko and I get anxious if we have vacation time with no travelling. Some families camp. Others go skiing. Some go to the cottage or just hang around the house. Our family’s thing was travel, especially when we lived in Saudi Arabia. Our parents met in Thailand, lived in Canada for a while, and then […]
Travelling Utah with a Campervan – Bryce Canyon National Park
Continuing with our trip in October to Utah, Bryce Canyon National Park was our next stop after Zion National Park. Bryce Canyon is part of the same geological plateau as Zion National Park, just at a higher altitude. We felt quite out of breath the first day, hiking up from the bottom of the canyon. Unlike Zion, […]
Our New Year’s in Pretty River Valley
Every year for the past seven years, we have been spending our New Year’s Eves in Pretty River Valley in rural Ontario. As you can see, it’s in what’s called the ‘snow belt’ of Ontario. We snowshoe and visit the reindeer, horses and chickens, help make the appetizers, spend the evening playing Balderdash, and then […]