Maggie's Journal

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Lest anyone thinks we're goody-two-shoes, we are taking the day off today. No yoga, no situps, no pushups, no squats. Butterscotch pudding for breakfast.

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Tags: Food & Entertainment
How about this for a portable snack food? http://www.sushipopper.com/default.aspx

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This is what is being offered at supper time Wednesday, Thursday and lunch on Friday. If you make a reservation, please honor it or cancel it so someone else can enjoy dining in the restaurant.

SOUP:

Potato Bacon and Sweet Corn Chowder/ $4

Mussels and Vegetable Cream Soup/ $4

APPETIZER:

Shallot and Wild Mushroom Tart/ $6

Baby Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad/$6

ENTREE:

Trio of Beef Mini Burger, Beef Stew, and Steak/$16

Pan Fried Digby Scallops with Barley Risotto/ $16

VEGETARIAN:

Caramelized Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato and Ricotta Lasagna with a Roasted Pepper Coulis/ $10

DESSERT:

Maple Chiffon Cake with Old Fashioned Boiled Icing and Blueberry Sorbet/ $5.

Annapolis Valley Apple and Buttermilk Tart/$5

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Here is the lunch menu for Wednesday and Thursday.

START:

Daily Soup Creation 3

Sweet Potato Frites with Curry Mayonnaise 3

Romaine Hearts with Caesar Vinaigrette, Reggianno Chards, and Buttered Croutons 4

Panko Crusted Onions with Grilled Striploin Steak, Champs and Scallion Caper Green Sauce 7

Homemade Fettuccine with Spicy Butterflied Shrimp, Tomato White Wine Cream Sauce, Basil and Feta 6

Beer Battered Haddock Loins, Frites, Classic Tarter Sauce, and Slaw 7

Roast Turkey Panini with Sweet Peppers, Grainy Mustard Aioli, Caramelized Onions, Provolone, and Frites 6

Smoked Ham Panini with Tomato, Spinach, Mozzarella, Basil and Frites 6

FINISH:

Butterscotch Meringue Tart 4

Chocolate Sticky Toffee Pudding 5

Dawn 625-4296 "We are fully booked for our evening service slot for this week, but do have lunch openings for Wednesday and Thursday."

Posted by Maggie Davis At 10:05 AM Location Port Hastings | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Life In Cape Breton
This morning we turned around in Lime Hill and went back home. The wet snow was getting deeper and we decided to stay at home after all.

By the afternoon, the weather had warmed, all the snow and sleet melted and there was a definite look of spring around us. The perennials, biennials, herbs, bulbs and rhizomes have sent up fresh shoots and greened their leaves. The trees and shrubs are forming pale buds. The snow is gone, the grass is starting to grow and the lettuce is getting frisky in the cold frame. Spring has sprung and it's early this year. The weekend is forecast to be cold but that's temporary. We could be in for a balmy St. Paddy's Day.

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Tags: Culture & Traditions
Saturday night we attended a dance that was held in the Bras d'Or Lakes Inn. It was a Winter Festival activity sponsored by The Municipality of Richmond County and the Destination Richmond Tourism Cooperative.

From 8:30-9:00 there was a refresher of the Grand River set that we had learned a couple of weeks ago. We also did the Inverness Set, as it is done locally, which we had muddled through a couple of years ago. We had a lot of fun and laughs as we danced our way through the sets. Our caller, Claire, is new to much of the figures as are most of the participants, with only the older folks having some memory of how the sets go. The older gents did some discussing, arguing and memory-prompting as they tried to get the order of the figures as they danced them in the past.

The idea is to record the various dances, while we still have folks among us who know them, so they will not be lost forever. In the process, there has been no small amount of tweaking - during the dances - and that makes for a certain amount of chaos. At one point, all three sets were doing something different and there was even some inadvertant intermingling of people in the sets when a grand chain went off on an unscheduled tangent. Add to that a woman dancing the gent's part and you get some confusion, which explains 5 women moving clockwise and 3 men going counterclockwise around the set. Hoo boy. As long as we all remember to laugh instead of getting our britches in a twist, all is well. This is supposed to be fun.

In the book "The Flowing Tide" Pat Murphy recorded the Inverness South Square Set in Halifax in 1996 but it is not the same as the Inverness Set we do here. More confusion. This appears to be the only Nova Scotia square set he recorded in either of his books.

Yesterday was Gaelic day. We met with several other folks to do our level best to become conversational in the old language. Some folks are doing better than others, I'm not making much progress but Kit is coming along nicely with it. No matter what, it is always fun and we are good at laughing at ourselves and with each other in a good-natured way. This seems to be a particularly humorous bunch, which helps, not to mention using a unique variety of stuffed animals as props (platypus, weasel, mooing cow, cur, sheep).

I hope our postmistress is feeling better after her bout with the flu.

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Tags: News
I found this article in this morning's CNN Health. It is sure to prompt some heated debate. Unless it gets squelched instead.

"... Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds. ... people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs."

Read the rest of it here. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/liberals.atheists.sex.intelligence/index.html?hpt=C2

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Tags: Food & Health
For 2010, we have taken on a flexitarian lifestyle (I say we but mostly it's Kit who has changed). We are getting good at changing our diet in favor of more vegetables, less meat.  

Last night's menu: Curried duck breast, pan-roasted potatoes, braised lettuce with peas and glazed root vegetables, cooked on the wood-burning Jotul cookstove.  

72 pushups, 107 squats, no yoga, 2 mile dog walk late this afternoon. We be buff old farts.

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If you have an event to promote, enter it in the Around The Lake calendar. http://www.marblemountainvillage.com/calendar

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Another great meal was had by all.

There was an empty table for 4 that never showed up nor called to cancel. That's horrible. What has happened to people's sense of decency? Dawn should take people's credit card info and charge them for every no-show.

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Who is interested in establishing a Red Hat Chapter in Marble Mountain? There isn't one here yet.

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