Shred your cheese without it crumbling by freezing the block for 30 minutes before grating and spraying the grater with non-stick cooking spray. • Before you purchase cheese, consider your taste. Bold, strong flavours include aged cheddars, Gruyère, spiced cheeses and blue cheeses. Milder flavours include Colby, mozzarella, young Brie, fresh goat cheese and Havarti. • Certain cheeses freeze well,...

Happy anniversary HomeStyles. The HomeStyles Home & Renovation Show will run from March 20-22. It is the 40th anniversary of the show. “If you are a homeowner in search of renovation expertise, products or services, you have come to the right place,” it says on the show’s website. “If you are in search of a Certified Professional Home Builder to...

My husband and I were travelling in Germany last fall, a country that recognizes and reminds us of the horrors of Hitler, the Nazis and the Second World War. We took a few guided tours to historic sites, and it was heart-wrenching to think of the millions of lives lost in the camps, but also of the young soldiers who...

Big Bend is one of the most remote areas in the United States. It took us five hours to drive from El Paso to Marathon on excellent paved roads, and yet we rarely saw another car. As we wound our way through the West Texas Mountains, the scenery was captivating. Big Bend is named for the vast curve of the...

Having earned only $400 for one professional concert as a pianist, Janina Fialkowska decided in 1974 that she was going to enter law school at the University of Montreal. But then an amazing series of events occurred, most involving concert piano giant Arthur Rubinstein. Through him, Fialkowska was able to re-ignite her love of music, build confidence and spend40-plus years...

Shame on us — at least to a small degree.At a recent Davidson town council meeting, an RCMP officer presented crime stats for 2019. We are the culprits. I have been covering Davidson council meetings as a freelance writer for the Davidson Leader. I have never covered a Saskatoon city council meeting, but have watched them on Shaw Cable. Trust...

Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim sold a Phoenix radio station a bridge, swampland and Regina with his comments about Chris Streveler: “He is a legend in Canada. Winnipeg won their first Grey Cup in 29 years because of him and what he brought to the table.” In fairness, Keim went on to call Streveler “a gritty guy, who can...

Jerry Shoemaker, a prominent Saskatoon curling figure, is happy with the health of his favourite game in Canada. “Great strides have been made in the competitive, high-end scale of the Canadian game,” said Shoemaker, who was president of Canadian Curling Association (CCA) — now known as Curling Canada — in 2005-2006 and is the newly-minted Saskatoon Kins-men Sportsman of the...

Here’s a common scenario for people over 50. They’ve gradually gained weight over the last couple of decades, and now they’re obese or getting there. Somewhere over the years, they stopped participating in hobbies and sports. If they ever were a regular gym-goer or runner, that slipped away at some point, too. Now they have aches and pains, difficulty sleeping,...

I am not crazy. I had myself tested. It took me five psychologists, but I finally found one who told me I was good to go. Let me explain. When I was going to college in Edmonton I had absolutely nothing in my bachelor apartment. No table and chairs, no television, not even a radio. All I had was a...