Rose's Cantina

  I bought my first cookbook in 1974, when I left home for the first time. It was entitled, Chatelaine's Adventures in Cooking, and it was our generation's Cooking for Dummies.  Adventures in Cooking  was big in its day especially for girls like me who were never taught to cook at home. By the time I became interested in preparing meals, my mother had long since lost her desire to make homemade food. Instead, she filled the freezer with TV dinners that she left for me when she went to work.  I loved cooking shows back in the 70s, and I was hooked on Graham Kerr,  The Galloping Gourmet, w ho had a cooking show on CTV. Kerr was   a New Zealander, half in the bag, my mother used to say, who made everything with clarified butter and wine.  What did my mother know, I sniffed. Vera, the queen of Swanson mystery meat and thin gravy. I wanted chicken cordon bleu, not instant mashed potatoes. I was determined to learn the kitchen skills, and not be a slave to the freezer.  The key to m

On the eve of Ashley Simpson's birthday, her parents learned that the RCMP ignored a call from hunters who found her belongings up a mountain near Canoe, BC. The pair were grouse hunting just weeks after Ashley's disappearance in 2016, and they discovered a pile of clothing on the ground which included pink shirts and jeans, CDs and makeup. Most ominously, they also discovered a piece of mail addressed to Ashley Simpson. The couple shouted her name, but heard nothing. They weren't carrying cell phones, and didn't want to tamper with the evidence, so they rushed down the mountain and alerted the RCMP.  "I got really bad vibes," Kendra Toner told Indigenous News .  The RCMP did nothing, according to Toner who went back up the mountain a couple of weeks later and found the pile scattered along the road, and run over by cars. She didn't see the piece of mail. Could the cops have picked it up? Unlikely, considering the pile of belongings were still there. Flash