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Most ice cream in Nova Scotia is made by the same producer so I love that there is a local ice cream shop in Tatamagouche. The Earltown General Store is a food lover’s paradise with a mix of local baked goods, preserves and international ingredients and spices that are hard to find in Nova Scotia. The Butter Trail is a 5km stretch of the Great Trail – which is a trail in Canada that stretches from coast to coast and is the longest recreational trail in the world. I am so thankful to great partners who help me continue to share my best local tips for things to do in Nova Scotia in hopes to inspire others to travel the province.

A member of Taste of Nova Scotia, they are committed to serving local food along with Nova Scotia wine and beer. It is part of Canada’s Great Trail and also the Blue Route, which is 3000km of connected bike routes in Nova Scotia. What I like about My Home Mercantile is that it’s not the same mass produced junk you see at every souvenir gift store in Nova Scotia. I am so thankful to great partners who help me continue to share my best local tips for things to do in Nova Scotia in hopes to inspire others to travel the province.

But after spending two years in Cuba I realized that if you can push all common sense aside, you can travel Cuba easily. So I landed in Holguin in Eastern Cuba, stayed in an Airbnb next to the resorts in Guardalavca, and discovered Gibara, a town I’d love to visit again. I spent a week in Havana and figured I’d be back in July, which was not an ideal time to continue writing the Cuba guide. I am really looking forward to spending the summer in Atlantic Canada and have been making a list of all the things I’d like to see.

It’s not just for pancakes, here are 50 sweet and savory maple syrup recipes that are also easy to make! I have traveled all over the world, and I usually bring a small bottle of maple syrup to give someone as a taste from home. I usually explain that you can use maple syrup the same way you’d use honey. In 2012 there was the great Maple Syrup Heist where three men stole $18 million dollars in maple syrup.

Fat pork is a fruit in Trinidad that’s native to the sandy areas of Guyana where it’s also called fat poke. Native to Africa and Asia, governor’s plum is the fruit of the flacourtia indica plant that’s widely grown as a Trinidadian fruit for its sweet flavor. However, it’s just known as the governor’s plum in Trinidad. But it’s actually the fruit of a legume called inga feuilleei that produces what is called the ice cream bean because of its sweet, white pulp that tastes similarly to vanilla ice cream.

And when people write me to say they love my videos about Nova Scotia and want to visit I feel so proud that I can share the beauty of where I am from. But the biggest change was that I started watching travel vlogs on YouTube on places I’d like to visit. When I’m away traveling I tend to work in the morning and explore for the rest of the day. I would love to think that this crazy time we’re experiencing right now normalizes people sharing that they are not ok, or that they are struggling through some things.

Native to Ecuador, babaco belongs to the papaya family, which explains why it looks exactly like one. It’s easy to get confused between the Ecuadorian guava, which is like a pod-like fruit with a cotton-like flesh. Canoa Ecuador Guayaba is native to South America, the Caribbean and Mexico, and it looks like a tiny citrus fruit with a soft pink or yellow flesh inside. Granadilla is a type of sweet passion fruit that’s native to South American countries like Ecuador, Costa Rica and Colombia.

I think it’s because at one time people only ate at all inclusive resorts where NONE of the food is usually good. So some of my favourite main dishes, like garbanzos fritos (tomato based chickpeas) just use a small amount of pork for flavouring. Cuba has some of the best avocados, plantains and fantastic root vegetables like yuca, taro root (malanga) and sweet potato (boniato). Here is a compilation of great healthy Cuban food recipes from other food bloggers, with a few of my own.

My non-Canadian friends ask why we don’t like winter? I love that Dawn and Melissa are up for winter walks, book clubs (we’re reading Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows) and nights in talking about nothing and everthing important in life.. But it takes me 8-15 hours to edit them because I’m new to video editing and learning to shoot video. So when people subscribe to my YouTube channel (hint hint!), comment on a video or share it, it basically makes my day and validates my life.

It is also used in a lot of local recipes like sautéed okra with cashews, Brazilian cashew nut patties and Brazilian vegan stew with cashews and coconut milk. But it’s also used in several Brazilian recipes like jams, sauces and Brazilian drinks. Graviola is one of the tropical fruits of an evergreen tree that’s commonly propagated in tropical countries like Brazil. Pitanga is one of the fruits of Brazil that’s usually added as a flavoring for jams and jellies because it is rich in vitamins A and C. Brazilian cherries are also used in desserts like marmalades and mousses.