Valerie on December 13th, 2008

Girl-friends in silly glasses.

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Valerie on December 8th, 2008

Slow Food Edmonton Convivium annual Holiday Brunch 2008 at Mary Bailey’s home in Edmonton Alberta. Wonderful homemade local food shared with wonderful people.

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Valerie on December 4th, 2008

A Norweigan Lefse recipe with a pictorial guide from Marg Kline, a long time Red Deer citizen.

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Valerie on December 2nd, 2008

Happy Birthday to May: 90 Years of Prairie Life! Tweet This Post Post to Facebook

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Valerie on December 2nd, 2008

Valerie, A Canadian Foodie makes Sour Cabbage rolls. Anyone from Central Alberta or the Edmonton area has eaten cabbage rolls and loves them. They, pyrogies, and other Ukrainian delights have become a fundamental part of our festive prairie cuisine. This happened through the influx of Ukrainian settlers in the late 1800′s in the north-western prairie area now known as Alberta. You will almost never attend a casual prairie wedding, or a festive meal (like Christmas), without the addition of a large pan of cabbage rolls. Valerie ncludes detailed instructions, as well as a pictorial slide show for making sour cabbage rolls: Sarma.

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Valerie on December 2nd, 2008

This year was it for me. With twenty six years of teaching reading and writing, then writing and reading and loving every nanosecond of it, I got sick. Literally. And had to slooooow way down. It’s not that I did the same thing for twenty six years. Never. One of my daily mantras is “change is a rest”. I am motivated and challenged by change. I am excited by it and driven by it.

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Valerie on December 1st, 2008
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Instructions on making bread and buns with my Thermomix machine including a detailed pictorial slide show.

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