Prince Edward County

Sandbanks - PEC

Prince Edward County on the Lake Ontario is best known for Sandbanks Provincial Park and it’s 7km of sand dunes and sandy beaches.

It takes just about 2h drive from Toronto or around 4h from Montreal to enjoy the sand and the beaches. But, there is much more to the Prince Edward County then beaches… Read more →

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When cold winter blanket covers northern hemisphere we do head south to recharge, discover new, enjoy and relax, whenever we can. When down there, we also introduce our taste buds to new flavors. Some we do bring with us and enjoy afterwords wile remembering sun and a beach but they do not last forever. In today’s world there is always a product or two from south just around the corner, in the local store, and who knows, that little effort of getting up and preparing a southern meal or drink could easily recharge batteries just as a trip itself.

Let’s start today with the introduction to a main ingredient of drink known as Cuba Libre. As you may know, or you guessed rum is the key and what’s better way to explain what kind of rum you should use then by our host at rum factory in Havana, Cuba. See it for yourself in our short video clip from Havana…

Cuba Libre ingredients:

• 60mL or 2oz of rum
• Cola
• Lime or lemon wedge
• Ice cubes

Preparation:

Pour rum over ice cubes, top the glass with cola and garnish it with lime or lemon wedge.

Cheers!

Grandma’s Cookbook…
Behind listing grandma’s recipes was idea of heritage preservation in a digital form, in one part preservation of family traditional cuisine and on other part sharing recipes with those who, from time to time ask or look for this recipes. Then, with time, new cooks came in to the picture with some other recipes, who will also find place on this page. Hope you’ll find them handy!

Bon Appétit!

Happy Hour…

Few How’s, What’s and Why’s surrounding drinks in your favorite bar, vacation destination, restaurant…

Two loaves of bread as shown on photo require minimal number of ingredients…

Ingredients:

• 750g or 6 cups of white flour
• 6g of instant yeast
• 1 tea spoon of salt
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 500-750mL (2-3 cups) of WARM water

Optional ingredients:

• 1-2 large eggs (beaten)
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil

Preparation:

1. Mix together flour, yeast, salt and sugar.
2. Mix in optional ingredients.
3. Start adding warm water (slowly) and simultaneously stir with wooden spoon till it becomes to hard to mix. Place a bit of flour onto the counter and knead the dough for 10 minutes till smooth (if sticky keep dusting it with the flour).
4. Place dough into a bowl, cover it and let it sit in warm place for 45-60 minutes.
5. Then, take the raised dough out and knead it for another 10 minutes.
6. Cut the dough on half and shape it in to two loaves.
7. Place two loaves on baking pan or in to two separate loaf pans. Optional – brush the tops of the loaves with olive oil.
8. Cover it again and leave in the warm place to raise another 30-45 minutes.
9. Preheat oven to 180 Celsius (370 Fahrenheit) and bake around 45-55 minutes – CHECK first time often so it does not burn.
10. Once done, take the bread loaves out of pan and let it cool around 10-15 minutes.

Bon Appétit!

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Most of people will never dive beneath the surface of the oceans, or have on their hands remotely controlled subs to explore the underwater life, deepest trench in the ocean or dive among corals or centuries old shipwrecks. But, most of us like to enjoy hidden treasures brought to the surface in picture or video, by sea explorers, scientists and divers. Now, there is another way available that will allow us to explore the deep blue and give us instantaneous access to it’s underwater life, it’s past, present and possibly future. The “Ocean in Google Earth” enables us to visit deepest part of oceans, explore them with top marine experts, learn about climate, endangered species, discover dive sites, shipwrecks and much more.

You’ll remember watching breathtaking Cousteau family documentaries or BBC, Eco-Nova and other productions who broth to our homes TV footage from the oceans and seas world over. Them and very long list of others have partnered with the “Ocean in Google Earth” project and have provided numerous data that is now just click away for all of us.

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Let’s stop for a moment and try to imagine hardship that are going through survivors of earthquake on Caribbean island of Haiti. Initial loss of lives, loss of loved ones, neighbors and friends is accompanied with dear ones injured and without immediate emergency help.

In the same time, their homes and little hope for better future has been shattered.

Google Person Finder: Haiti Earthquake

Now, let’s stop for a moment and imagine ourselves in the same situation and add to it, no water, no food and no safety.

Once again, from all corners of the World help is getting there or being well on it’s way. It is a matter of the utmost importance that medical help, water and food arrive ‘yesterday’ but recovery will last for many years to come. Long term help can be provided only if we all pitch in one way or another and beside many other ways to do that there are always well known International organizations;

• Red Cross
• Red Cross Canada
• Oxfam
• World Food Programme
• UNICEF
• United Nations
• Médecins Sans Frontières

How is your car surviving Winters hidden treasure named pothole covered with snow and slash? Do you live in the city where braking every bit of your car is also doing it’s part in economy by creating jobs?

Photo archive; Potholes in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Where are worst roads you have encountered? Are they in your town, city or other country, continent?

By reading articles about potholes among numerous search results I realized that this is simply an issue that we have to learn to live with, or maybe not? There is, for an example, in North America almost every city full of “proud” citizens who can’t say enough about size and number of their potholes, the way city is cooping with the problem, cost of repairing roads, damage to the vehicles, etc.

Can we accept this as being “product” of mother nature, blamed on weather, Winter and ice?

Sometimes is hard to believe that in 21st century there is no material that could improve and strengthen the road surface?

Are you refusing to accept that nothing can be done? Some say that by doing the road work in a way it has been done for so many decades, there is nothing else behind potholes then preservation of road construction jobs, creation of car repair workshop jobs and production of car replacement parts.

Is that another “business” of ours that is doing it’s part in further and further depleting Earth’s resources and unnecessarily destroying ecosystem? Is there anything we do good for future generations or we are selfishly trying to take with us to the other World as much cash as we can, even though we are already decade in to 21st century and by some scientists completely evolved grown-ups?

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