Black beans may be small, but they’re powerhouse ingredients that can help you lose weight, keep your gut healthy, improve your heart health and more. As a protein-rich, fibre-filled legume variety, black beans have a ton of potential. They can be a side dish or a main, a topping or the star of any recipe. Whether you like your black beans served alongside flavourful rice, as a swap for meat inside tacos or sandwiched between buns as a burger patty,…
Over the past year, while concentrating on taking care of my cancer diagnosis and our health in general, I’ve shifted my diet dramatically and learned a lot along the way. One…
I’ve struggled with sharing this for quite a while now but feel sharing it may be cathartic for me. I feel like I’ve been hiding it from most of my friends…
In early 2019, I was working on launching a Sparkling non-alcoholic Cider. I wanted to brand it so it was attractive to children and adults as a healthy drink, rather than…
In February 2020, we visited Santa Maria Hualtuco, Las Bahías de Huatulco. It is located on the Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca. In the map below, you can see…
After having won a total of 17 awards over a three year period, we brought up the conversation with our partner to create a sparkling cider, which we could sell outside…
This post spans almost 9 years of hiking around Tobermory on The Bruce Trail and showcases a bit of every season. Tobermory is located at the top of the Bruce Peninsula…
We drove right by the entrance (twice) the first time we went looking. To find the trail, you have to locate the small white sign, three kilometres down Concession 10 from…
Ketchikan is Alaska’s southeastern most major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic District. With a population of 8,000+, it is the fifth-most populous city in the state, and tenth-most populous…
In 1794 a survey crew described what is now called Glacier Bay as a five-mile indent in a glacier that stretched “as far as the eye could distinguish.” In 1879 when…
The Hubbard Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. From its source in the Yukon, the glacier stretches 122 km (76 mi) to the sea at Yakutat…
Cozumel is the largest inhabited island in Mexico and the oldest in the Caribbean group and is located 12 miles off the eastern coast of the mainland (Yucatan Peninsula). A limestone…
In 2014, I was asked to visit a vineyard, which belonged to a client, to sample some of the Ice Cider their farm was producing and do some thinking about how…
I had to get the photo… I just had to. We had driven considerably out of the way. The short route was 3 hours and 29 minutes from Canyon de Chelly…
The South Rim is by far more commercialized compared to the North Rim but in many ways, the well kept Rim Trail offers a hiker a relaxed and enjoyable environment to…
