As I’ve said numerous times before, I could eat pasta every single day. However, I’m trying to lose a bit of weight in a healthy manner, and this entails exercising more, and simply being more mindful of what I’m eating. Luckily, I find that my pasta cravings are very slightly diminishing. This led me to…
This Roasted Puerto Rican Chicken Recipe by Well Kept Wallet is a new way to include chicken into our meal plan. For years, I have wanted to make something similar to the chicken served at Romados Rotisserie et Patisserie located on Rue Rachel E in Montreal. While their chicken is absolutely delicious, this chicken is…
According to basically every search engine online, Ossobuco or osso buco is Italian for “bone with a hole” (osso “bone”, buco “hole”). This is in reference to the marrow hole at the centre of the cross-cut veal shank. Since I have never made it before, I decided I could splurge a little bit around my birthday to…
Yesterday, I watched Pinterest Presents 2023. As someone who uses Pinterest on a weekly (if not daily) basis, I was interested in seeing what they were going to share. It was a relatively short presentation, but it was well done. They kept it light, to the point and they had an interpreter doing ASL, which…
As I continue to learn Finnish on Duolingo, I find myself wanting to connect more to that part of my heritage. I remember my Mom making pannukakku (a Finnish oven pancake), which was served with jam, and I immediately started to crave raspberries. Raspberries + the meat on sale this week = these raspberry pork…
I have been craving potatoes lately. French fries, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, poutine (I usually get it just for the cheese curds but even the French fries would be gone at this point)- I can’t explain it. However, since I don’t want to eat salty, greasy fries in an attempt to satiate my craving, I…
“A reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.” – IMDb The Whale (2023) Starring Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins Directed by Darren Aronofsky Written by Samuel D. Hunter Box Office: $32.7M US Storyline The film begins with an instructor teaching what appears to be…
“Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence.” – IMDb Barbie (2023) Starring Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Issa Rae Directed by Greta Gerwig Box Office: $1,345,183,126 Gross Worldwide Review Let’s just get this out of the way- Barbie made me cry. Yup, a movie based on a children’s toy had me…