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food : tourtière

The first pie before it went into the oven (after which it didn’t last long enough for more pictures!).
In preparation for hosting our family Christmas this year, I baked and froze two tourtières for Christmas Eve. Although the pies are the traditional French-Canadian Christmas Eve meal, and I am in fact French-Canadian, I mostly [...]

birthday blizzard!

Apparently, I am getting a blizzard for my birthday. While that puts the kibosh on the super secret birthday plans downtown, a foot of snow is a pretty good substitute (especially since the plans can be revisited after the holidays). Hopefully it won’t prevent folks from gathering here for Christmas, but it’s going [...]

food : even more winter canning

I don’t have a picture to share, because I am too lazy to pull all the jars out of the cupboard and clear off the dining room table to take one, but I have even more canning to report! Once the Granny Smith apples came into season, I was able to make the traditional [...]