In Town and Out

Saturday May 18, 2013

Sat May 18 Info and Links

Join the Ottawa Orienteering Club for an all ages and abilities event in Gatineau Park

When your grilled burger is so juicy that it ruins your shirt, then you've done it right, according to grill chef Ted Reader.

Chinatown Remixed is a month long event that allows the public to spot pieces of contemporary art, installed in some pretty unique places.

25 musicians, putting their names in a hat, then randomly create 5 new bands equals Ottawa's Rock Lottery

EVENTS:

o Palmer River Paddle Festival

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paddler-Co-op/116440035043295

o Sheep Shearing Festival at Agriculture Museum

o Thousand Island Arts Victoria Weekend Show and Sale

o Fieldwork Land Art Exploration - Opening of 2013 Exhibition

o Delta Mill's Mad Hatter's Tea Party

Friday May 17, 2013

WIN SIGNED KARLSSON JERSEY

We know you are out there.

You're the guy with the red face paint, painstakingly applied on game day.

The friends who drove for 27 hours to get to a playoff game.

The kid who's been wearing a Sens hockey sweater every day since the team made the Playoffs.

Prove that you are the biggest, best Sens fan there is and you could be the proud owner of your very own Erik Karlsson jersey, signed by the Norris Trophy-winner himself.

Email senscontest@cbc.ca and tell us why you think you deserve the prize. Make the best case you can - photos and videos make for excellent supporting facts.

Click for contest rules and regulations.

Saturday May 11, 2013

Sat May 11 Info and Links

Enjoy a Mothers Day choral concert with the Canterbury Trebles, a fundraiser for PAL (Performing Arts Lodge) Ottawa.

If you would rather read about baseball rather than watch it, try these books suggested by Erin Balser at CBC Books: The Might Have Been by Joseph Shuster, Whenever I Wind Up by Blue Jays pitcher RA Dickey and Color Blind by Tom Dunkel.

Gather up your unwanted stuff and gift it at the Ottawa Freecycle Group's Free Market.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/OttawaFreecycle

EVENTS:

o Dunlop School Book Sale - 1310 Pebble Rd. Sat May 11 from 8 am until noon

o Les Petits Ballets presents Aladdin

o Ottawa's First Annual Bird Fair

o Shaw Woods Mothers Day Nature Walk

Saturday May 4, 2013

Sat May 4 Info and Links

Centrepointe Theatre and Ben Franklin Place celebrate silver on Saturday

Kathyrn Hunt talks about being an Incidental Cyclist

Enjoy a variety of Jane's Walk options this weekend

EVENTS

o 200th Anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice read-a-thon

o APAC Varadero Art Auction Fundraiser - details on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/events/479478712106714/

o Join Standing Room Only swings at the Perth Classic Theatre's Swinging into Spring Dance

o Isle in the River Review Theatre Company presents Heroes

Saturday April 27, 2013

Sat Apr 27 Info and Links

Biologist and historian Dr. David Gray will talk about artifacts from the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition, between 10 am and 4 pm, April 27, at the Museum of Nature.

Finance columnist Nisha Patel's selections of web sites that can help with planning your vacation:

http://www.kayak.com/explore/

https://www.airbnb.ca/

http://www.jetsetter.com/

http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/

Apps:

http://www.ricksteves.com/ae/ae_menu.htm

http://www.tripadvisor.ca/apps

http://gasbuddy.com/GasBuddyMobileApps.aspx

The Flying Gwitch'in Fiddler is one of the performers taking the stage at the NAC as part of the Northern Fiddle Showcase.

Restaurant reviewer Kent van Dyk tells us about his experience at Farb's Kitchen and Wine Bar

EVENTS

o Enjoy a hike around Meech Lake and celebrate National Wildlife Week. Meet at P11 at 2 pm on Saturday April 27 for a 1 hour/3 km walk to promote outdoor appreciation and recreation. Ottawa Outdoor Club's hiking coordinator Eddie Drueding will lead the hike along trail 36 to an off-trail waterfall, next to a 100 year old abandoned phosphate mill. If you can't get out this weekend, explore the Fletcher Wildlife Garden on May 4.

o The Ottawa Police Pipes and Drums and friends celebrate the Sounds of Scotland.

o Rag and Bone Puppet Theatre brings to life Robert Munsch's A Promise is a Promise.

o Duo Gisbranco will give a free concert tomorrow evening, courtesy of the Embassy of Brazil.

Saturday April 20, 2013

Sat Apr 20 Info and Links

Deanna Singh and Friends join together to present German, Italian and French repertoire

Find out who makes Canada's best cup of coffee

Jennifer Kingsley took a look at options for gardening if you don't have a garden, or have one but don't want to use it yourself.

Community Gardening Network Coordinator is Terri O'Neill 613-699-6850 ext. 12

Neighbourhood Tomato: Jeff Mills jmills@themills.on.ca 613-256-1031 ext. 63

Let out your inner improv personality at Improv Awareness

EVENTS

o Folka Voca Choir annual concert

o 2wp telling of Homer's Odyssey in Burnstown and Perth

o Smiths Falls Community Theatre presents The Heiress

o Missa Gaia at St. Paul's Church in Perth

Saturday April 13, 2013

Sat Apr 13 Info and Links

You can take out more than books at the Perth library....seeds are now on loan.

What do fiddleheads and rhubard have in common? Christine Tizzard of CBC TV's Best Recipes Ever explains.

Ed Lawrence tackles aphids and the power of compost during his presentation, Tips, Tricks and Techniques to Gardening without Pesticides at the Cottage and Backyard Show.

Members of Ottawa's Islamic and Aboriginal communities present "A Community Gathering of Four Directions Aboriginal Silent Auction"

EVENTS:

o Canterbury High School Children's Theatre Festival

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Childrens-Theatre-Festival-2013/371022453005950

o Grammas to Ambuyas fundraiser with Big Soul Project

o Canadian War Museum Lebreton Gallery family fun day

Saturday April 6, 2013

Sat Apr 6 Info and Links

Julie Nesrallah and Parv Eshghi are the stars of An Evening of French and Spanish Music, Saturday evening at MacKay United Church

Lori Oschefski will tell her mother's story at Breaking the Silence--British Home Children in Canada, at the main branch of the Ottawa Public Library.

Theatre Wakefield production of Something's Afoot brought together 150 people in the village of 800.

EVENTS

3rd Annual SalsaFair
Owling Night at Wilberforce Township Park, between Pembroke and Eganville
The Ottawa Baroque Consort Presents Whose Solo is it Anyway?
Real Group Preview Concert
Goat Milk Workshops at Kricklewood Farm

Saturday April 6, 2013

Sat Apr 6 Giacomo's Cretoni

Recipe for Giacomo's "Cretoni"

1 tablespoon olive oil

2 tablespoons butter

1 onion, diced

1 pound of ground pork

1/2 cup white wine

3/4 cup milk

3 tablespoons crushed fennel seeds, more if you like

1 to 1.5 cups unflavoured breadcrumbs

salt, pepper

1. Use a Dutch oven or similar (you'll be letting this simmer for at least 90 minutes. I used a dutch oven

2. Very lightly saute diced onion in the olive oil and butter, about 7 minutes on medium-low heat

3. Add salt and pepper to taste...about 1 teaspoon of salt

4. Turn up the heat a bit to a bit more than medium and add ground pork.

5. Keep breaking up the pork

6. As the pork starts browning (just a couple of minutes) add white wine and milk.

7. Keep stirring everything and mix in your crushed fennel seeds. i like the seeds crushed, but not powdered.

8. You want enough heat to get things hot, but you don't want to fry the pork or burn the white or milk, so once it's hot, turn down the heat to low.

8. This is where you'll need to play it by ear....start adding unflavoured breadcrumbs in small batches, always stirring well. The breadcrumbs will give the cretoni structure, but too many breadcrumbs and it'll dry out.

9. You're going to keep heating this at low, covered, for at least 90 minutes, stirring every 20 minutes to mix everything. And each time you do, consider adding breadcrumbs if it looks like it can take it. Remember, once it cools and goes into the fridge, it will dry up.

10. After at least 90 minutes, let it cool before placing in fridge or freezer.