This is my own version of pasta with beans. There are many ways you can prepare this dish so have fun and don’t feel restricted buy the ingredients. This recipe is more like a stew. It’s economical, speedy and nutritious –perfect.

I’ve started knitting. Yes. Seriously. I just about gave myself an ulcer with my very first attempts –some say its relaxing; I must have been approaching it all wrong. You just have to let go. Don’t fuss. Don’t obsess, freak out when you drop a stitch, yank on the yarn –pretend to relax and create a limp noodle gauge –like I did.

You know the books you have to tell people about or barricade in the washroom while you read excerpts at them through the door, books you wish you could articulate right away because they raise so many thoughts and feelings that you have to talk about them, books that make you cry or completely surprise you, books that take you somewhere you couldn’t possibly have gone on your own. These are books that really stuck with me.