Category: Food

Winemaking Equipment

Two pieces of equipment that make like easier for the home winemaker, a bottle tree and floor corker. We bottle 200 plus bottles a year and the floor corker is worth its proverbial weight in gold. On the days we bottle…

By robrose

Bagging Our Own Wine

Just finished bagging a batch of Island Mist Coconut Yuzu that my wife loves. We ended up with three 3 liter bags, two five liter bag and two 1.5 liter bottles from the kit. We always leave the bags on the floor for a…

By robrose

Comfort Food

A tortilla, lean smoked turkey lunchmeat, sautéed sweet onions, quesadilla cheese and spicy mustard, all grilled to perfection. My wife is trying to use up as much food in the refrigerator as she can. It has literally…

By robrose

Home Winery

On the bottom is where the wine making equipment is kept. Shelf 1 has wine that is aging in bottles. The top shelf is where empty wine bottles and bag in box containers are stored. As you can see I use recycled bottles…

By robrose

Wine Making

Had two batches of wine aging in the secondary while we traveled this summer. Running six gallons of Shiraz through the filter prior to bottling.…

By robrose

Tortillas

We buy uncooked flour tortillas and cook them ourselves. It is very easy and they taste so much better the already cooked ones they sell in the stores. The exception is when we can buy them fresh cooked at a…

By robrose

Pizza

Our convection oven in Sophie may be small, but sizing a pizza to fit two of them on that small oven rack add adding a salad makes for a excellent meal. It is one of the reasons we were able to downsize from a 38 foot…

By robrose

美味しい:ノンアルコールビール クラウスターラー

ちょっと足を伸ばした場所にある酒屋さんでたまたま見つけて買ってみました。 飲んだ感じはかなりビールっぽい特有の苦味もありつつ、飲んだ後はさっぱりする感じで非常に飲みやすいと思いました。…

By yukikoya

An Awesome Canadian Dessert

While recently visiting some dear Canadian friends we were treated more than once to one of the most awesome desserts we have ever had, genuine full cream Canadian real vanilla ice cream and Nanaimo Bars. Don't know…

By robrose

Eggs With Steam

If you gaze at this long enough it just might make you hungry, you might even think that you smell the aroma. Photo: Eggs with Steam - Fried eggs hot off the griddle illuminated by the morning sunlight - Copyright 2014…

By fjcasella

昼まで温かいご飯コンテナー

外で昼食を食べるとき、おかずはコンビニサラダとかを買いますが、主食のご飯は家で炊いて持参しています。このご飯持ち運びはサーモスの保温ごはんコンテナーを利用しています。これを使うと、朝ホカホカご飯を詰めても昼まで冷めないです。(さすがにホカホカのままとは言えず、かろうじて温いくらいですが、、、) 私の場合は糖質管理のために雑穀米を詰めていますが、毎日美味しく食べられています。…

By yukikoya

A Product For Every Need

Many a parent has likely faced this at one time or another, a child who won't eat bread with the crust on. Into the consumer society where both parents work and there is little time do all that needs to be done, comes…

By robrose