Kitchen Travels: Moroccan-Style Chicken with Lentils and Apricots

Quite some time ago, I mentioned a Moroccan-style chicken dish that Pater makes, and a few of you asked if I’d share his recipe. And then other night he served it up, with some ever…

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Paris Pages, From my Travel Journal

Back to Paris? Come along with me, and perhaps you can enjoy a café allongé at the next table, as I scribble in my travel journal. Okay, yes, our travel will be of the armchair variety,…

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Black and Light and Paris. . . and an Eclipse for Good Measure. . .

Having just booked a(nother) flight to Paris later this year (actual destination being a b-sitting gig near Rome, but Vancouver-Rome Direct, Non-Stop, not being a possibility). . . having just booked that last week, booked…

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Right There, in Black and White, The Writing, er Painting, is on the Wall . . .

 More images from the Vancouver Mural Festival today, these ones taken last week while the artists were still working to complete their walls for the thousands of visitors that would view them on Saturday and…

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Wednesday Wall (Mural, that is)

This gorgeous mural in its very urban environment makes quite a contrast to my last post, doesn’t it? I hope you’ve had a chance to visit Ali’s garden and to join the conversation there, where that…

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