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December-ish (but still November-ish)
Every year I tend to get a bit sentimental and reflective when December rolls around. As I close in on the end of my second full year of this blog, I’m hoping to channel some of that sentimentality into some productive creative motivation here (and also in other online and offline spaces I’ve been inhabiting
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Sourdough Bagels, New York Style
It’s been a couple weeks since we got back from our trip to Manhattan. While my daughter loved Broadway, I really got into the food, in particular hunting down a couple good bagel bakeries and sampling their authentic wares. Of course, this left me yearning for some New York back home, and wondering if I
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from the big city.
I alluded in my previous post that November had us primed for some travel afar and away, and in as much I had picked up a new sketchbook for that specific purpose. Over the recent long weekend, the family and I flew across the continent from our frozen little Canadian city, to the big city,
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Travel: New York in November
It’s been nearly a year since we left the country last, but after six months of plotting and planning our long awaited return to Manhattan finally rolled into view on the calendar. Whatever else, it might give me some things to write about here over the coming week or two as I settle back into
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Local Flours Sours: GroundUp Coffee Flour
I was feeling adventurous when I bought a wee bag of local-ish upcycled coffee flour from a local food market. For what it purported to be, coffee flour turned out to be little more than milled used coffee grounds, cleaned, dried and packaged as a gluten-free additive for bread or other baking needs. When I