C&D’s homemade ice cream endeavours
We are by no means ice cream experts, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like our ice cream. After all, that’s why we’ve tried out and recently short-listed our favourite Calgary ice cream and gelato destinations! Now, some might think we are extreme frozen dessert enthusiasts because we happened upon and bought an almost-new-once-used-still-in-the-box
Derek’s Hot Five Calgary Ice Cream Escapes
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. Jim Fiebig What's the difference between ice cream and gelato? Here is a short lesson from Christine Gallary. Ice Cream: Fat and Fluffy Ice cream is a frozen dairy dessert made of milk, cream, sugar, and (typically) egg yolks. Traditionally,
A Tribute to Tuesday Shopping: My Costco Infatuation
Since moving to Canada I have become just a little obsessed with shopping at Costco. I spent my formative 18 months in Calgary on a visitor’s visa while awaiting my permanent residence which would entitle me to work. I had an inordinate amount of free time on my hands to explore. One of my favourite weekly – and sometimes twice-weekly
Derek’s Six Best Breakfast Hot-Spots
“Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.”Jonathan Goldstein, Lenny Bruce is Dead I think one of my
Derek’s Cross-country Skiing and Snowshoeing Antics
As far as low-impact, family friendly outdoor winter activities are concerned, there are few that are as accessible while potentially also exhilarating as cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. These two activities can be as benign or as extreme as you want them to be. Based on my previous blog post about outdoor winter activities you will
Derek’s go-to Calgary coffee hide-outs
Sometimes we all need that little place of retreat. Whether to work remotely, find comfort in a warm beverage and a freshly baked indulgence, or just to escape for a brief period from the busyness of our daily routine and demands. While our winter conditions here in Canada don’t provide opportunity to do this outdoors
Derek’s Dismal Winter Pastime Misfortunes
We’ve heard the adage “If you build it, they will come”. Might the same principle apply to other things, like “if you speak it, it will happen”? The winter of 2017/8 was a particularly cold one in Calgary, if my memory serves me right. We saw few – if any – Chinooks. These “warm” mountain winds traditionally blow
Derek’s Coffee Bean Dilemma: to grind or to mill
Tea was our go-to hot drink of choice in my childhood years growing up in South Africa in the 70’s and 80’s. In those days the heated discussions were always between those connoisseurs who were authentic loose-leaf tea drinkers versus the convenient tea bag users. The latter were considered to be the lesser mortals. Let’s
My Top 5 Rev<>lutions for 2019
Setting New Year’s Resolutions (or “Revolutions”, as I’ve chosen to title them) is quite often just an excuse to set one’s self up for inevitable failure and disappointment. Sharing them publicly may just add insult to injury, giving those within earshot of one’s intentions reason to hold you accountable, at best, otherwise judge and criticize
