I have a rather special fundraiser I am excited to put out there for everyone. Starting now and all the way up to New Year’s if popularity persists. I am shooting to serve up dinner to a SERIOUS amount of people to cover the mounting bills and surgical expenses accumulating from my wife's fight against cancer and all that it has brought to our family’s expenses.     Anyone who knows me well, knows I have a serious love for cooking and eating great food! I am always looking to up my cooking game. To me, fall is simply the best! With the bounty of harvest comes great food creations. Top favorites of mine as it starts getting cooler is a top-notch soup. King among them in my book is the always beautiful comfort food of an outstanding homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. Mine takes on some serious flavor with the help of carefully picked spices ranging from the essential and common to more exotic. You will taste subtle hints of depth and a note of spice which come from...

  Where to begin this story? Hmmmm, perhaps the beginning of this crazy year 2020? Seems fitting for this particular story, I think?   January 2020 brought with it a little excitement, and plenty of apprehension for many. For our family it brought with it a great many secrets lying just beneath the surface waiting to surprise us all and turn what we knew of daily life on its head and spin it like a washer on a spin cycle rattling everything around and on top of it!   The year started with some concerning medical developments for my wife Wendy. She was experiencing tightness in her chest, shortness of breath and a fair few other side effects such as dizziness, vertigo, and numbness in her lips and face, which eventually spread to various other body parts. She also had a metallic taste in her mouth with what felt like mouth sores coming on.   After a fair bit of troubleshooting, reviewing SDS material documents and such, we settled on it most likely havin...