Marilyn's Photos - Aug 15 2025 - Time for CNE Food

 

I am looking through the Featured Food HERE on the CNE website.  There are numerous foods with the names "Black" as in black donut and black latte.  There are more things with "butter" in them - the butter burger, butter chicken and waffles, butter chicken birria-style tacos, butter ice cream, butter soda, and butter tart funnel cake.  Then there are many deep fried things - maple cookies and deep fried frozen watermelon.   And then there are the things you probably can't figure out. What would be in a pickle boat? It is a really big pickle. I don't know how lobster ice cream tastes or how ice cream sandwich hasbrown tastes, either.  I guess that's the draw and the fun.  Who knows what each of these special items tastes like?  Toronto Life says they've ranked them.  Their top pick is poutine dumps and the review says there's nothing fried and no ice cream or butter involved. The next best is the Bacone.  It is a habanero and bacon infused cotton candy poof on a creamy passion flakie, crowned with a butter tart and then drenched in maple Timbit glaze.   And the third best is the two foot long hot dog.  The strawberry and black chocolate crack latter includes a chocolate-coated glass that shatters when you squeeze it, revealing a milky blush-pink latte.   You can read about the rest HERE. There is so much creativity in this madness.  At the same time, I think reading about these crazy foods is a good enough experience for me.

Something I noticed this summer is that I haven't seen any blooming rose fields or any sunflower fields.  I usually find them, but not this year. So I had to go find a sunflower picture from a few years ago.  This is one of the great August flowers.   Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

2016 - Monkey Year Ahead

For those interested in following horoscopes and signs, this year will be the Year of the Monkey, starting Feb 8 2016, the Chinese New Year.   Why does the date of the Chinese New Year change every year?  The Chinese use the Lunar calendar for their festivals. The Lunar calendar is based on the time the moon takes to go around the Earth. (The Western calendar is based on the time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun.) The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years.  The first day of each Chinese year will always fall sometime between January 21 and February 21, inclusive, and takes place at sunset on the day of the second (sometimes rarely on the third) New Moon following the winter solstice (21 or 22 December). How long do the New Year celebrations last for? Chinese New Year celebrations last for two weeks and end with Teng Chieh, the lantern festival, on the full moon about 15 days later. The Chinese Calendar Each year in the Chinese calendar is represented by one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, the Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig. Some people believe that people born in a particular year such as the year of the Rat will have some of the characteristics of that animal. It is said that "The animal hides in your heart." At the other end of the spectrum, the 2016 trends in the news seem to veer into the silly. CTV News says a culinary trendologist told The Canadian Press that her ingredient to watch in 2016 is toast. Today we have an abstract of Canna leaves, and a sunflower interpretation.