I’m not sure when this actually happened but many years ago I started reading labels. I stopped purchasing packaged foods (e.g. ready-to-use sauces, cake mixes, baked goods) that contained words I couldn’t pronounce. I concluded that I was going to stop putting things into my body that I didn’t understand. And I started to cook … Read More
Four women of Chinese descent, got together to make dumplings from scratch. What I most loved about this, was the banter between the four of us in two Chinese dialects and English. One is from Northern China, another from Southern China and two born and raised here in Canada. Yet, from different backgrounds, we connected … Read More
After two weeks of summer vacation since preschool ended, the boy comes out of the playroom and says, “I’m bored, Mama.” So, we decided to bake cupcakes. Seeing as I always have lemons on-hand and I managed to find some blueberries, we decided to make these cupcakes. He loved helping to make these delicious morsels … Read More
