Jam fail - sauce success

Late night ‘jam’ session

In my dreams, I am the kind of person who makes homemade jam.  Fresh berries turned into unctuous compotes in adorable glass jars, with classy looking labels I designed myself…
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Fairytale weekend in Iceland

Once upon a time, there was a Canadian princess named Shelley who wanted desperately to go to Iceland (we don’t know why).  She tempted Anna and Elspeth with “You know…
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Please and Thank you

Airplane etiquette

Hello fellow passengers. Ever read Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book? I didn’t think so. You should.  AMAZON.  Look it up.  Order it.  How about this?  Here’s a summary…
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Verona

When is a pizza not a pizza?

Culinary existentialism…… Twenty minutes outside of Verona, in the small village of San Bonifacio you’ll find I Tigli.  Except, when you walk in, you’d swear you were in Milan, or…
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