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All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Sailor’s Warning
For a few minutes while we were out walking with The Partners, the sky was an intense red. By the time we got home and I ran out back with the camera, light was taking over and the red was fading. Still intense though.
The Wild Goose
Here’s the late great Wade Hemsworth…
Soup of the Week at the Comfort Food Diner
Over the years I’ve made butternut squash soup a few times and I think I do it differently each time. Last night time I roasted the squash first along with some celery, a jalapeno and a couple carrots. Meanwhile, I caramelized some onions in my… Read More
Stalling
I keep my tax-related stuff, art expenses and so on in a drawer, which I believe to actually be a tardis. You know like the police booth Dr. Who travels around through time in – it’s not very big on the outside but once you… Read More
What’s the deal on coffee prices?
Since I’ve become “Retirement Man”, I do more of the food shopping around 27th Street and while I’m not the smartest shopper around, eventually some things sink in, such as: THE PRICE OF COFFEE MAKES NO SENSE. At home we drink your basic drip grind… Read More
I could listen to this all day….
Are there any tunes or songs you don’t want to end? Tunes that settle down into just the right groove, tunes you want to listen to all day? For me this doesn’t happen in pop music so much as in old time music and in… Read More
A local history curiosity
Tuffy P was at a show of vintage paper items the other day and came home with a cardboard fan celebrating Campbell’s Tomato Soup, but more specifically, the tomato soup coming from the New Toronto plant at 60 Birmingham. Campbell’s opened at this location in… Read More
Hot Cold Cold Corn
Vivian Howard, the chef and star of A Chef’s Life on PBS wrote in her cookbook, Deep Run Roots: “Ground corn distinguishes the food of the Americas from that of the rest of the world”. It turns out down in America they make hooch from… Read More
So nice to be right here….
With all of 45’s shenanigans south of the border, I was thinking how happy I am to be living right here in Canada. Here’s Mendelson Joe performing The Canada Song. Back in the 80s when I was living in a storefront studio on Ossington Ave… Read More
27th Street 