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Medieval Cookery: Browning Chicken and Making Soft Cheese

What did medieval people eat…before tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, and microwaves?  Most people had very little food, but when times were good, meals were great. Browning chicken for a stew:  These iron pots, on tripods over a trench fire, were greased by cooking bacon.  The bacon itself was removed from the pot, put onto a […]

Free Park Pass for 8th Grade Canadians

If you are a Canadian and have a child in grade 8 you can get him or her a free park pass that will gain admittance into 42 national parks, 167 national historic sites and 4 national marine conservation areas across Canada. The pass is for a full year, until April 2012. This offer expires April […]

Review: A Pioneer Story by Barbara Greenwood

Here’s one book no homeschooling family should miss:  A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840.  It combines heartwarming stories of a busy pioneer family with the background information and hands-on activities of a unit study.  Truly, it is a winning combination. You can read the rest of my review over […]

Review: A Bunny, a Case and a World of Taste

This delightful and informative romp through the world, written by young Hayley Nevitt, is full of recipes from around the globe, collected during the travels of Serena, the word’s foremost food critic. Long-haired Serena’s mission is to find the best recipes from around the world to be used in the world-famous Nevitt restaurants that are […]

Homeschool Crew Review: Lobster Network

 Now here’s a unique concept!  Remember all those books (or DVD’s, or children’s clothes, or whatever) you lent out and couldn’t find when you needed them because you forgot who had them?  Remember (blush) the books (or DVD’s, or children’s clothes, or whatever) you borrowed, and can’t remember who from?  Well, Lobster Network, a free […]