This recipe is for a full blown Greek meal.
We start with a flambéed cheese dish – Saganaki. Followed by a main course of slow cooked leg of lamb served with rice and a Greek salad followed by a classic dessert of Ekmek. Saganaki 2 small packages of Saganaki cheese (can be found in the cheese section of good grocery stores or in specialty shops) – 110 gm each Flour as required Oil as required Dust the cheese lightly with the flour. Heat the oil in a large enough pan to hold both slices of cheese at the same time. As soon as the oil is smoking hot, add the cheese and cook on one side. Carefully flip and cook on the opposite...
Read MoreThe 2020 Provincial Election .
Island Woman Magazine will actively support and encourage all the women candidates on Vancouver Island that will be running in the upcoming October 24th 2020 provincial election. We invite the candidates initially to send us biographies of who they are, and why they are running for office. We encourage them to state their values and their vision of what needs to be done to ensure that we can maintain and improve the quality of life that we enjoy here on Vancouver Island. Most importantly, we ask them why we should vote for them. During the campaign we will post the details of any meetings...
Read MoreForces of Nature
My mother visits twice a day, at 11:11, since the day she died, 20 years ago. My father comes to me in the guise of a Hummingbird, at least once a day, if not more. There was a Hummingbird on the sign they put on his room the day we took him off life support, almost a year ago. I was already relating him to the Humming Birds who were fliting around my place in such numbers in his final weeks. When I asked the nurse why the Humming Bird sign was on his door she was quiet at first, as if deciding what to tell me. She chose honesty, for which I was grateful. “It’s to tell the staff not to...
Read MoreTo Break Through We Have to Break Down
I have felt a certain kind of interest and excitement since the first moments of hearing about the Covid -19 virus. Being aware of it gave me a certain tingling in my body and my soul. My heart reached out to the expanding movement of the virus, recognizing a certain sureness that it had come into our lives as a teacher and guide. An agent that would lead us into something that we badly needed, something that could no longer be avoided. A rendezvous with human evolution physically and spiritually. (Please don’t be shocked or surprised by this at first glance. I will explain.) My...
Read MoreIf you’re thinking about building a website
getting more online traffic, outsourcing, or growing your business then don’t forget to join us for one of our free webinars! , August 27 [This Thursday!] | How to Plan and Launch a New Website September 10 | Export Ready: Resources to Grow Your Business Outside of BC September 15 | Privacy: How to Outsource Work While Keeping You and Your Customers Safe September 17 | How to Get and Grow Your Website Traffic: The Basics September 21 | Finding and Bidding on Opportunities with the Government of Canada Please see below for more information and feel...
Read MoreDuring this time of uncertainty
I want to help you to get into a state of inner balance. We all prefer different ways to overcome stress, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, no energy, poor sleep or other worries so many experience now. Some of the following is free or by donation. 1.. Bruno Groening is helping all of us when asked. To find out who he is go to https://bruno-groening.org 6000 doctors are involved world wide to evaluate the healings. Sometimes people experience healings watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNlXuclHhVc Another way is Braco’s gazing session and he is also taken seriously by...
Read MoreThis is a quick and easy dinner
that takes advantage of all the fresh locally grown ingredients that are available this time of year. Warm Potato salad 2 lb waxy new potatoes, skin on Water to cover 1 tsp salt Try and select potatoes that are of the same size as much as possible. Place the potatoes and the water in a pan with a tight fitting lid. Place over medium high heat and bring to the boil. Add the salt and reduce the heat to low. Cook just until the potatoes are tender, approximately 15 minutes. While the potatoes are cooking, mix the following in a bowl large enough to hold all of the rest of the ingredients. ¼...
Read MoreA GOOD ‘SIGN’
The story that follows is the first segment of my memoirs. My earliest childhood recollections are of post-war, pre-revolution Hungary, where I was born to a former ballerina whose first husband had abandoned her and their two young children and a twice widowed agronomist who loved the “smell of kids”. My father had lost two wives in most tragic ways and, even more tragically, two children. So when he met my mother, he fell not only for her but the two kids and the match was made. Well, almost. . . My mother being very religious, a convert to the Catholic faith, took the...
Read MorePresentism” is the practice of applying 2020 cultural expectations
‘ and values to some 18th- or 19th-century events we’d rather forget. “Presentism” is comfortable because it encourages a kind of morally superior self-congratulation by interpreting the past as it suits us. Denial of the past would mean that the truth of the country’s history becomes something best forgotten in the interests of generational comfort. There is an increasing tendency to prefer that such and thus events in the past just did not happen and if it did, like Dorothy, we could cause it to simply disappear by wishing it away. But pulling down statues and changing building...
Read MoreThe grim reality
Canada has failed in its duty to protect vulnerable eldersin long-term care, according to a highly critical report that examines the issue in light of the COVID-19 crisis. The report released Friday by the Royal Society of Canada found the pandemic was a “shock wave” that exposed many long-standing deficiencies in the system and caused high levels of “physical, mental and emotional suffering” for seniors. “Those lives lost unnecessarily had value,” reads the report by a working group that was chaired by Dr. Carole Estabrooks at the University of...
Read MoreBBQ fish with a fresh fruit salsa, marinated cucumber salad
with fresh dill, potato kebobs, grilled fruit and pound cake kebobs BBQ fish 1 large fillet of salmon, pin bones removed (you can substitute another fish in place of the salmon. Just be sure it is a firm textured fish) 1 lemon Salt and pepper as required Lightly grease the grills on the BBQ and then preheat to high. Squeeze the juice of the lemon over the flesh side of the salmon and then season generously with salt and pepper. Once the BBQ has come up to heat, lay the salmon flesh side down on the grill. Cook for 2 minutes. Carefully slide 2 large lifters under the fish and rotate...
Read MoreThere are many roads to wellness
and we each arrive from different places and routes. Mine has always been a quest for understanding how we can be better – better health, mental wellness and nourishing our bodies. I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a foraging family. As an infant, my parents would put me in the backpack carrier and bring me along on all of their forest and beach walks. We collected everything from wild mushrooms, clams, fish, and berries to Fiddleheads, wild garlic and Maple sap. Native herbs and edible flowers were collected for salads, soups and to be dried for Winter use. I lived in the big...
Read MoreFinancial Elder Abuse
Isolated adults are vulnerable to elder financial abuse but conversation can help drive change. Elder financial abuse is the most common form of elder abuse. It is defined as the unlawful or unauthorized use of an elderly person’s financial assets. It is also the act of pressuring an elder to authorize consent or use of their financial assets. How to Recognize Elder Financial Abuse Personal relationships are often leveraged to perpetrate investment fraud. To gain the trust of an older adult, a fraudster will often offer help or become a close friend. Learn more about the ‘trust...
Read MoreWhy Wool For Your Footwear?
In recent years wool has enjoyed a great surge in popularity. Not only is wool an environmentally friendly and renewable resource, the material is durable, naturally therapeutic and ideal for footwear. This is because wool acts as a natural insulator, keeping your feet warm in winter, and cool in summer. Wool fibres have a crimped shape, producing air pockets regulating temperature and absorbing more moisture than any other fibre — 30 to 40% — keeping skin dry, healthy, and odour free. Wool is naturally bacteria-, mould-, and fungus-resistant. Nearly all footwear is made...
Read MoreHow our lives changed in the blink of an eye..
because of Covid-19 “Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.” Unknown When life knocks us down, we can stay down, or we can get up and be a force to be reckoned with. We will not be the same after this storm, we will be stronger. Life will always be tough. Everyone of us will face misfortune and calamitous events in our lives at one time or another. When adversity happens, we can choose to hide our heads in the sand. We can pretend that what is happening around us will not happen to us personally or we can be proactive and do...
Read MoreStuffed Portobello mushrooms,
stuffed tomatoes, twice baked potatoes, fresh berry shortcakes Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms 4 large portobello mushrooms, tops washed, stems removed and reserved, gills scraped clean Sprinkle of salt pepper for each mushroom cap ½ cup short grain rice such as Arborio 2 cup water ¼ tsp salt 4 strips bacon, cut into thin strips ½ small onion, finely diced 1 clove garlic, finely chopped Reserved mushroom stems, finely chopped 1 tsp fresh chives, finely chopped 1 cup finely shaved parmesan cheese Cook the rice in the salted water for until cooked to desired degree of doneness. Set...
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