While sipping some nice, hot, spiced rum, trying to warm up after the unexpected major Calgary snowfall on October 1, I thought now would be a good time to talk about beverages.
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Local gem discovered
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Luckily for us, not many people in Canada are familiar with wild mushrooms, so there isn’t too much competition for mushroom picking, just mostly Eastern Europeans. In Alberta,
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I had a request for some recipes, so here is one of my favourite summer hors d’oeuvres:
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For a long time, every time I went to an Italian store in the summer, I wondered what the zucchini blossoms taste like. They look so beautiful, with yellow flowers among bright green leaves. I read that they are delicious, delicate and flavourful.
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When I was a girl, I remember that it was hard enough to choose between the three available flavours: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Now you get into an ice cream store and your head starts to spin when you see all the choices. I read somewhere that in Vancouver there is an ice cream store with more than 200 flavours, including roasted garlic, jalapeño and black pepper varieties. Now that would be fun to try!
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When I posted on FB the photo of the herring in beets, the general response was… well, disgust. If your first response to herring is “Yuck!,” chances are you are not Polish. But
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