I'm out of the office much of tomorrow - off doing research. So here's an early tip for some weekend fun.

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supercook.com

Here's a site I just read about today - quite fun and really useful. If you're standing in your kitchen wondering how to create a supper from two or three seemingly disparate ingredients, you plug them in here - and following a discreet query as to whether you also have such-and-such on hand - voila!, a tasty recipe, mealtime salvaged.

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What are these penguins doing? Going about their penguin business, obviously, but they could be said to be voting with their feet, making choices via movement. In this roundabout way (for some reason I just wanted to see some pictures of penguins) the NQ reminds any NL readers that today is municipal election day.

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"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." we know what that means. Captain Jean-Luc Picard has just placed his favourite order with the Enterprise whats-it, and is headed for a little me time. Earl Grey has a long and noble history and its distinctive flavour has even been added to ice cream. Not for everyone, perhaps, but you could always try a London Fog Latte.

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Harbour

A new show by John Hartman opens tomorrow at the Christina Parker Gallery of Fine Art. Called Harbour, it features oil paintings, pastels and drypoint prints, in vivid colours and impasto layers, views of Salvage and New York and St. John's Harbour. If you're on the go you should check it out, and then maybe treat yourself to this, what you might call your basic 'sight for sore eyes', as well.

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Curriculum Night

aka Parent's Night, aka Meet The Teacher. Wherein parents roam the school halls like gazelles, child's schedule in hand, searching helplessly for biology class as the bells ring off another missed ten-minute interval. We might not learn much about the school programs but we definitely experience what it is like to be the new kid on the scene - perhaps the most valuable lesson.

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American Pie

For some reason, and for some days, I have been craving lemon meringue pie. According to food historians, people started eating lemon desserts in the Middle Ages, but the meringue defied perfection until the 17th century, while the pie we all know and love comes to us from 19th century America. If the foregoing has whetted your appetite you can try this recipe.
(And, yes, I have seen the movies of the same name; took my daughter actually and, well, we learned lots and lots of new words that day.)