I know that this is not going to be to my taste because I dislike elote ice cream (and sugar in my coffee). But I’m wondering if that corn-flavoured sweetened condensed milk could be used in cornbread. My favourite cornbread is made by the Montana’s chain in Canada and it is dessert sweet...

When I was still living in Canada near the US border, I would make frequent trips into the US to pick up mail. You don’t set foot into the US for even a second without medical insurance. So I would carry an annual policy they would let me go in and out as much as I pleaseD. That cost me several hundred dollars a year.…

I think this is part of the larger overall trend these days of mocking things that are not for you. For example, I have a friend who is really not into food. He just puts random things on a plate and eats until he’s full. If I make any mention social media of having cooked a meal, he will mock me about the money that…

Pretty much all the avocado I eat is with the juice of a lime squeezed into the hole and then some coarse salt sprinkled over the whole fruit. Then I eat it with a spoon. It’s fantastic that the avocado not only comes with it own bowl, but also a bowl for the dipping sauce! I eat around the lime juice filled centre, di…

I decided in the last week to do this. I went to my bank to open a savings account, but the agent suggested instead that I open up an investment account that would have a 3.87% return. Don’t know if there is something equivalent in the U.S. Here in Mexico, they call it a daily account. I have access to my money…

I am cooking so much more at home! I live in Mexico and the supermarkets tend to have pretty basic fare and then you have to go to specialist shops to get things like Asian ingredients or Italian ingredients or special cuts of meat or unusual vegetables, etc. With the heat here and my not having air-conditioning in my…

But what would be the point? There is absolutely no point to put him through that. My going back and opening up cans of worms with every man who swatted in my ass or made a sexist comment at a time when such things were just commonplace? Just look at all the romcoms of the ‘70s and ‘80s in the ‘90s. They are so…

THIS. I am so tired of people today judging people from the past against today’s moral standards. No. You judge them compared to their contemporaries. Like, black face was no big deal in the ‘80s. There was no collective consciousness that it was not okay. It wasn’t controversial. But morals have evolved and now we…

And yet, when I point this out to people caught in this cycle, they don’t see it. They have completely drunk the proverbial Kool-Aid and continue to believe the lie that Canada is a good place to live where you will have a high standard of living. That was true until late 2008. At that time, I was working for the…

I’ve been living in Mexico for three years after coming here part-time for a few years before that. Before quitting Canada for Mexico for good, I travelled around Europe a bit and spent a lot of time in the Balkans, especially Bulgaria. It was there that I appreciated the resilience you must have to live somewhere…

I live in Mexico, where anything is fair game to be made into a taco. As someone who was a vegetarian for 15 years, I still stick to very common cuts of meat and anything that I can’t find on an average grocery store shelf is a little repulsive to me. But when I was on vacation just before the lockdown started, I…

I was a vegetarian for 15 years and I have to start eating meat again because I was unable to get the nutrition I needed from plant protein. It was a huge change for me and one that I still struggle with. I found that the transition was a lot easier when I was living somewhere that I was able to eat meat that my…

This is how I feel about cutting the cord with Google — it’s impossible. All you can do is minimize contact and make conscious choices. I live in Mexico and Amazon can get me things I actually need that I simply cannot find here. For example, I’m a transcriptionist. Last year, the foot pedal I use to control audio…

“You can’t change the behavior of an old dog...so to speak.”

I never feel more lonely than when I am with people. Lockdown with just my dog has been awesome.

This is exactly why I would have remained a tenant had I continued to live in my home country of Canada -- way cheaper to rent and no financial surprises. But here in Mexico, it makes no sense to rent because tenants are responsible for maintenance on the homes they live in. this is probably why Mexico has one of the…

I moved to Mérida, Mexico, three years ago. I had a year of living in a hot tropical humid climate under my belt by that point, so I knew what to look for when I was househunting. My house has a thick walls for good insulation, high ceilings for dissipating the heat, and windows all around for cross-ventilation.…

While I was trying out a few countries, I made it very clear that I was a digital nomad, and they were happy to welcome me on a tourist visa as long as I showed intent to leave at the end of that visa. That includes several countries in the Balkans, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, and Mexico. Spain is a great gateway…

You are a good kind of evil genius. Thank you very much for your thoughts! :)

Thank you! That’s actually helpful! I have had more than one person say that my tax and investment situation is very interesting, but too complex for them. Love how you’re spinning it that I should be selling myself as very interesting instead of complicated. :)