“I honestly can’t put my thumb on it except to say that there is a magic quality to her. She made every class fun, and made us believe that we could do anything – and getting a bunch of awkward teenagers to feel excited and comfortable about being on a stage in front of their entire town is quite something!”
Read more...Dream Café Penticton
The funky Dream Café on Front Street in Penticton is one of kind. Good food and excellent entertainment.
Read more...Oaked, unoaked, or under-oaked?
Results of our Chardonnay blind wine tasting – complex and interesting wines with varying degrees of oakeyness. BC apparently does Chardonnays well.
Read more...Lovin’ Valentine Farm
A visit to Valentine Farm gives you all the choices of a farmer’s market, but it’s in a beautiful country setting and is only a few minutes from downtown Summerland in the Okanagan valley.
Read more...Squash Soup recipe
Elaine Watts – a local super-talented artist, requested the recipe for the squash soup for which I had posted a picture on Facebook. I didn’t actually have a recipe as I make up soups as I go along but this will at least serve as a guide…
Read more...A few of my favourite things
Springtime in the Okanagan is exciting with everything waking up after a long cool winter’s sleep. Soon the countryside will be beautiful again when the blossoms burst forth to greet the sun.
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