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Danny Bourque is a mechanical engineer who is known at both home and work as either “the geek” or “the numbers guy”. He is very methodical and genuinely loves to analyze almost anything that piques his interest – including food.

Preserving

How to Keep Your Freezer Cold

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Written by Danny Bourque. Rotten food stinks. Bad. You know how you feel when someone gets you a surprise present?  Pretty good, I bet.  Now imagine if you got a present, and when you went to use it a few days later, it was broken, spoiled, just turned into garbage.  Just awful, I’m sure. A [...]

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Cooking School

Help Me Help You: Sharing the Cooking Load

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Written by Danny. This post was birthed a few weekends ago when Aimée was gone to BSP in Pennsylvania.  I had the kids for an extended weekend – on holidays – and it was both wonderful for the bonding and closeness I got with my boys and terrible as I realized that I rely on [...]

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Dinner

Grilling Fruit (Recipe: Grilled Peach and Haloumi Salad)

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When Aimee mentioned that my next post would coincide with “grilling week”, I have to say that I was pretty darn excited. After all, I’m a man, and men are supposed to be “King of the grill” – if you buy in to all of that jazz.  And so to be quirky and different, my [...]

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Preserving

Bwaaakk! Our Journey to Backyard Chickens

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Written by Danny Bourque. This summer we will have eggs. This winter we will have soup. Mission Accomplished: we now have backyard chickens. As with most home renovations I tackle, it seems it took a lot longer than anticipated – almost 5 months longer – but the coop is finally complete, and we got the [...]

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Cooking School

Lessons Learned in Substitution and How I Served Sour Soup to a Chef

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During our honeymoon in Budapest, nearly nine years ago, Aimée and I became smitten with Hungarian cold cherry soup. It was sweet, yet tart, and smooth, smooth, smooth in texture. Some years later, I decided to recreate that memorable soup for my wife on a whim. I had a general concept of ingredient substitution, but [...]

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