When I think of tacos I think of hard-shell tacos full of meat and veg and a pain in the neck to eat. I much prefer soft tacos . . . especially if they are fish tacos. I don't have any taco recipes . . . since my husband doesn't like spice or fish . . . sigh . . . so please share your taco recipes with me. Thanks.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published in 1852 and had a profound effect on attitudes toward slavery in the U.S. The title character is said to be based on the story of Reverend Josiah Henson. Henson was an author, abolitionist, and minister born into slavery in Maryland. He escaped to Upper Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and school for fugitive slaves near Dresden, Ontario. I purchased my copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin many years ago after visiting Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site in Dresden, Ontario.
Alessia Caracciolo (born July 11, 1996), known professionally as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. After producing acoustic covers, she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014 and released her debut single the following year. "Here" peaked at number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart and was a sleeper hit in the United States, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 2018, Cara became the first Canadian artist to ever win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She has also received nominations at the American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards, and won an iHeartRadio Music Award, five Juno Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and an MTV Europe Music Award.
According to the list 101 Interesting Facts About Canada , Calgary chinooks can raise the temperature by 10 degrees in minutes. What is a chinook you ask? According to Wikipedia , Chinooks are most prevalent over southern Alberta in Canada, especially in a belt from Pincher Creek and Crowsnest Pass through Lethbridge, which get 30–35 Chinook days per year, on average. Chinooks become less frequent further south in the United States, and are not as common north of Red Deer, but they can and do occur annually as far north as High Level in northwestern Alberta and Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia, and as far south as Las Vegas, Nevada, and occasionally to Carlsbad, in eastern New Mexico. In southwestern Alberta, Chinook winds can gust in excess of hurricane force 120 km/h (75 mph). On 19–November 1962, an especially powerful Chinook in Lethbridge gusted to 171 km/h (106 mph). In Pincher Creek, the temperature rose by 25.5 °C (45.9 °F), from −23.2 to 2.2 °C (−9.8 to 36.0...
I love ham. It doesn't love me so much . . . don't know why . . . but I always take a chance and have a bit every chance I get. I have several excellent tested ham recipes to share with you . . . Denver of Western Sandwich https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2019/04/denver-or-western-sandwich.html Spiced Honey Glaze for Ham https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2019/03/spiced-honey-glaze-for-ham.html Potato and Ham Scallop https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2017/08/potatoes-and-ham-scallop.html Easy Ham with Pineapple https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2017/07/easy-ham-with-pineapple.html Ham and Onion on Picks https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2016/01/ham-and-onion-on-picks.html Ham and Cheese on Picks https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2016/01/ham-and-cheese-on-picks.html Ham Spread https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2015/11/ham-spread.html Enjoy!!
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Is there anyone out there who has never read Charlotte's Web? This children's classic is a wonderful read for every age. It is the story of a runt pig named Wilbur who is being raised for slaughter. A little spider named Charlotte begins spinning words and phrases in her web that make Wilbur so special that the farmer decides to keep him. Charlotte’s Web is not only a story about friendship, but also about a story about words and the difference they can make in someone's life. When fall arrives Charlotte knows her life is nearly done. She gives Wilbur her egg sac to look after. The last lines of the book . . . "Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."
Aldo Nova (born Aldo Caporuscio on November 13, 1956) is a Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer. Nova initially gained fame with his self-titled debut album Aldo Nova in 1982 which climbed to Billboard's number 8 position, and its accompanying single, "Fantasy", which climbed to number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. If you want to know more about Aldo Nova click here .
Scrapbook a layout about something you enjoy learning. Don't scrapbook? Journal about this or create a page in your art journal. Just get creative! MOOCs are amazing . . . Massive Open Online Course . . . but I think my addiction to them may be part of the reason why my DTDL . . . Dreaded To Do List . . . gets so far behind sometimes.
Was the baseball glove invented in Canada? Arthur Albert Irwin (February 14, 1858 – July 16, 1921), nicknamed "Doc", "Sandy", "Cutrate" or "Foxy", was a Canadian-American shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the late nineteenth century. Arthur Irwin was born in 1858 in Toronto, Ontario, to an Irish blacksmith and a Canadian mother. As a child, he moved with his family to Boston and attended school there. While playing with Providence in 1883, Irwin broke the third and fourth fingers of his left hand. Not wanting to miss any games, he obtained an over-sized buckskin driving glove, padded it and sewed the third and fourth fingers together to allow space for bandages. He used the glove even after his fingers healed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Irwin Was the first baseball game played in Canada and not Cooperstown, New York? Good question, and one the folks in the southern Ontario community of Beachville have been a...
Oh how I love sushi!! I don't believe I've ever turned down an invitation to go to a sushi restaurant. The best way to eat sushi is with a group so you can order a wide variety to share and enjoy. Every once in a while when I am desperate for sushi I will purchase grocery store sushi even though it just isn't the same. Can you see just how "thrilled" Hal is to eat sushi. He puts up with it once in a while because he knows it makes me happy. I have no recipes for sushi since I don't think it looks like fun to make.
It's Time for Challenge #3 So, your paper is beautifully organized, your scraps carefully stashed or purged, and your desk is gleaming! You are starting to get organized. Doesn't it make you feel creative? Don't you want to get cropping? Well, you CAN'T scrapbook without PHOTOS! Our third challenge is to organize our photos. Here is an excellent article to get you thinking about how to organize those precious photos before we start to S.P.A.C.E. them: https://www.scrapbook.com/articles/organizing-and-storing-your-photos-and-negatives Please take a moment and read this excerpt from Design Strategies for Scrapbookers : Photo preservation begins with safe storage. Remove photos stored in the old magnetic albums immediately. A magnetic album has cardboard pages with adhesive on them and a plastic sheet to cover the photos. The adhesives and plastics in these albums are highly acidic and can ruin your photos very quickly. To safely remove photos from magnetic albums...
Goofreads 2020 Update of Books You Need to Read to Be Considered Well-Read #64 ~ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation. - Publisher Madame Bovary, when it was first published in 1857, was considered very shocking. It is a gorgeously written story of Emma Bovary, an immature and romantic woman, who has grown up believing in a very romantic vision of how her life would be. When her life turns out...
I know this one!!! Yay!!! Alannah Myles (née Byles; born December 25, 1958) is a Canadian singer/songwriter who has won both a Grammy and a Juno Award for her recording of the song “Black Velvet”. The song was a top-ten hit in Canada and a number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1990 according to Wikipedia. Blogger doesn't seem to want me to embed a video so here is the link for Myles' Black Velvet: https://youtu.be/tkXNEmtf9tk
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): 1. Canada had the 7th highest female employment rate in 2009, at 69.1%, compared with an OECD average of 59.6%. 2. Canada’s fertility rate is 1.66 children per women, which is just below the OECD average of 1.74, and well below the population replacement rate (2.1). 3. Canada has the 11th highest child poverty rate among OECD countries, at 14.8%, which is above the OECD average of 12.7% 4. The size of the average household in Canada is 2.5, just below the OECD average of 2.6 persons per household. 5. Canada performs well in PISA’s reading literacy scale among 15 year olds, and had the 3rd highest score among OECD countries in 2009, at 524 points. More things they have to say if you are interested: Canada could step up its efforts to provide more support to parents with young children Across a set of key family indicators Canada scores around the OECD average. Fertility rates (1....
Today's food is Corn Dogs. I like them. I don't love them. But I would never turn my nose up if someone offered me one. How do you feel about these "carny" treats? I've never made them except from a box from the freezer section of my local grocery store so I don't have a recipe to share. If you have a great corn dog recipe, please share it in the comments below. Thanks!
Finally . . . a Canadian artist I really know . . . Alanis Morissette! Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two mildly successful dance-pop albums. Afterward, as part of a recording deal, she moved to Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill, a more rock-oriented album which sold more than 33 million copies globally and is her most critically acclaimed work to date. Her follow-up album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998. Morissette assumed creative control and producing duties for her subsequent studio albums, including Under Rug Swept (2002), So-Called Chaos (2004), Flavors of Entanglement (2008), and Havoc and Bright Lights (2012). Her ninth album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, was released in 2020. Morissette has sold more than...
One Word: Bright . . . in one minute Okay . . . setting the timer for one minute . . . Bright. I am sometimes very bright. I have clever thoughts. Witty conversation. And some days it is a miracle if I can walk and chew gum at the same time. I have this little problem called "fibro fog" which makes my life very entertaining . . . and frustrating . . . My favourite saying . . . you aren't the brightest crayon in the box. Okay I cheated. The timer went off in the middle of entertaining . . . LOL
According to my list of 101 Interesting Facts About Canada , the average Canadian watches 21 hours of TV each week. I could not find where that statistic may have come from but I did find that . . . While the majority of Canadians have adopted Internet-based video services, traditional television viewing still far exceeds viewing of Internet-based television. In 2017, Canadians 18+ watched on average a total 30.4 hours of television per week, with traditional television representing 89% of the viewing and Internet-based television only 11%. ( source ) That's more than a whole day each week spent staring at a television! Wow! I'm not exactly surprised since I'm married to a man that switches between TV and YouTube for hours each day.
#5 on the Food Food Food list is Steak! I love a good steak . . . and by that I mean grilled to medium rare. Here are a few tested recipes using steak. The flank steak and steak and onion pie are my two favourites. Healthy Grilled Steak https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2019/04/healthy-grilled-steak.html Pan Broiled Steak https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2018/10/pan-broiled-steak.html Kansas City Steak Strips https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2018/10/kansas-city-steak-strips.html French Style Flank Steak https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2018/02/french-style-flank-steak.html Steak and Onion Pie https://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.com/2016/06/comfort-food-steak-and-onion-pie.html