This has been my view a good deal of the time recently. Yes, the dreary weather has finally reached Montreal. I’ve been surprised at how little I’ve minded. But there are far too many things to be happy about right now to let a little wet weather—or even the nasty cold that’s been decimating the [...]
For the summer I’m down to one roommate (from my usual four or five), the pair of us crammed into a 2 1/2 sublet with a small fridge and a postage-stamp sized kitchen. We’ve been making a virtue of necessity by experimenting with communal cooking. Instead of getting in one another’s way cooking two meals [...]
Sometime in the distant past my oma and opa gave us a little ice cream maker. It’s hand-cranked, and holds just a pint of ice cream, which is a little awkward because all the recipes are for a quart, but well worth the trouble of splitting the occasional egg. The prospect of losing my supply [...]
Have you ever had vanilla ice cream with walnuts and a drizzle of maple syrup? Precisely. Heaven. For whatever reason, I’ve been craving the combination for a few weeks. Daffodils are blooming, birds are singing, everyone’s outside, and my subconscious has decided it is summer. Now. With ice cream, thank you very much. My subconscious [...]
