I thought I’d make a french onion soup for lunch while taking a break from the website stuff. Now, I know french onion soup is more of a winter dish, but hey, have you looked at the temperature lately? The soup turned out really nice, so I took a picture and decided to give you the recipe, should you be interested.

The main ingredient in this soup is not onions, it’s time: it takes about two hours to make two bowls of soup, so don’t start this as a last minute what-the-hell-are-we-making-for-lunch type of meal. It’s a lot of standing and stirring.

Remember, this makes TWO bowls, multiply all ingredients according to your number of guests:

• 3 medium onions, thinly sliced (makes about read more

The Heart and Stroke Foundation released a ridiculous report this week about the cost of healthy foods across Canada. It found that Calgarians pay much more for healthy foods than say, Ottawa or even North Bay (if you know North Bay, you’d know it’s slightly… uhm… “out of the way”, adding transportation costs), and that in general, healthy foods are more expensive than unhealthy foods. They are implying that price is the biggest factor in Canadians eating less healthy.

The report relies heavily on volunteers who fed their families for a week by shopping at regular well known grocery stores. Items included 6 apples, bag of potatoes, whole wheat pasta, brown rice, 1% milk, cheddar cheese, lean ground beef, peanut butter read more