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Kitchen Garden 2013

Andrea July 22, 2013 July 29, 2022Our Home

New theme and kitchen garden

This summer, as with most years in our home, our dinner guests will dine on ingredients grown steps from the dinner table, and often harvested and prepared just for that one meal. Today, I harvested my first lot of garlic, shown in the picture opposite. I will have to let them dry out a bit, and then we are ready to cook with our very own garlic. This is a species of locally-grown and harvested garlic. It will take a few weeks for the garlic to cure, however.

Mississauga RibFest 2013

Andrea July 21, 2013 July 29, 2022Andrea

Mississauga Ribfest 2013

Sometimes, time pauses and for an evening, something perfect happens. The annual RibFest at Celebration Square in Mississauga was just such a mid-July event. The oppressive heat and humidity had lifted with a Friday thunderstorm that washed the air clear. The weekend weather was sunny, warm and dry. And what better event to take in with Bob and my then-EduNational colleague, Gabriella Herrero, than the annual RibFest that the different Rotary Clubs in Mississauga host at Celebration Square, the recently-built gathering place for special events in Mississauga.

Our July storm bubble

Andrea July 9, 2013 February 20, 2020Our Home

A rain storm for the ages Anyone following the news reports from the Greater Toronto Area knows about the torrential rain and flooding that happened all across southern Ontario, as slow-moving thunderstorm fronts emptied more rain in two hours on the Toronto area than normally falls in a month. However, just as nearly everyone else was getting rained on in biblical quantity, our neighbourhood seemed to be in a dry bubble. We were outside trying…

Waiting for warm weather

Andrea March 31, 2013 July 29, 2022Andrea

After Easter, spring taking its sweet time The WordPress software on this site lets anyone register, and become a subscriber. As the web site owner, I have to manually “upgrade” subscribers to become “contributors,” which lets you write comments on the web site. I hope my friends and family add comments on my recently-published corn bread recipe. The computer generated registrants on this site, like those e-mail addresses from eastern Europe, and the anonymous ones…

New pussycat headers

Andrea February 4, 2013 January 13, 2020Our Cats

Obi-Wan and Bebe on every page Our two cats will amuse you with their appearances on the header of each page of the Seepersaud web site. Bob pored through our photos to find ones that could be cropped to fit the shape of the headers on this web site. Welcome also to my family members who have joined. Each of you has had your account upgraded to that of Contributor. Registered Users who have been…

Christmas 2012

Andrea December 1, 2012 July 29, 2022Our Home

Up go the 2012 Christmas decorations! As we begin to drag the boxes of Christmas decorations, ornaments and paraphernalia out of the basement, we remember the full-day task of getting them down way back in January. It always brings out the child in everyone to start decorating the house for Christmas time. Now that everything outside has been packed away and made ready for winter, we can turn our attention to the festive time of…

Good things grow

Andrea August 6, 2012 July 29, 2022Our Home

Our 2012 Ontario garden

With our assiduous watering, the garden has both blossomed in flowers, and borne us a bountiful crop of veggies this summer. Aside from being part of the cucumber salad, we can incorporate and garnish dishes and drinks with fresh mint from our garden. This is mint julep time, and mojito season. We have plenty of mint leaves. We have always grown our share of fresh herbs, including chives for our baked potatoes and fish dishes; lots of lemon balm, which makes a nice tea when infused. The chopped leaves are good in salads too.

Healthy Living Expo 2012

Andrea July 31, 2012 April 11, 2020Andrea

First non-Chinese co-chair I had just returned from a very short whirlwind holiday in Hong Kong, when I was approached by the Chair of the Mississauga Board of Chinese Professionals and Businesses (CPB) with an intriguing suggestion. He said that CPB had appointed a Co-Chair for their upcoming Healthy Living Expo, and suggested that I consider taking up the position of the other vacant Co-Chair. I accepted. And so began my journey of learning and…