{"id":49761,"date":"2012-12-01T05:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T12:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=49761"},"modified":"2020-06-20T21:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T01:05:53","slug":"movie-sets-and-maple-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=49761","title":{"rendered":"Movie Sets &#038; French Canadian Potage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for this week seems to be movies: Here are five things:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_me5w7pJgmA1rk997oo1_5001.jpg\">Supernatural<\/a><\/em>. I thought it was Paramount that was filming in Gastown but it was actually an episode of Supernatural. I talked to one of the restaurant owners in the area and he said (after talking to numerous &#8220;movie people&#8221;) that 2,000 movie workers recently relocated from L.A. to Vancouver because there is more work in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>2. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_me85hyuEfA1rk997oo1_5001.jpg\">The Mystery Machine<\/a><\/em>. I&#8217;m not the only one who has spotted the Mystery Machine around Vancouver: here, here and here. According to Warner Bros, the second movie was filmed in Vancouver and in the end, the vehicles were auctioned off on eBay&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>3. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_me85pdSj2a1rk997oo1_500.jpg\">Vancouver Film School<\/a><\/em>: Numerous shoots happen in and around the city. I stumbled upon one over lunch on Wednesday just outside the Art Gallery and may have inadvertently been one of the people walking in the background on one take. <\/p>\n<p>4. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_me85slJxUa1rk997oo1_500.jpg\">ICBC Strike<\/a><\/em>. Not new news because the <a href=\"https:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/bcit-students-urge-gov-t-to-negotiate-with-workers-1.1057150\">instructors at ICBC have been on strike<\/a> for a while. However, there were numerous demonstrations and people chains in Vancouver&#8217;s core during the week.<\/p>\n<p>5. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_mebha6nWtC1rk997oo1_500.jpg\">French Canadian Potage<\/a><\/em>. This is one of my favourite recipes and it&#8217;s gluten, dairy and corn free. Potage is a French Canadian staple&#8230; comfort food for dark winter months. I generally make a pot and leave it on the stove and people snack on it all day.<\/p>\n<h5>French Canadian Potage<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>1 pound acorn squash (seeded, peeled and cut into chunks)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 pound of leeks (white part cut into 1-inch pieces)<\/li>\n<li>1 large baking potato (peeled and cut into chunks)<\/li>\n<li>4 cups chicken stock (we make our own and freeze it to ensure it&#8217;s gluten and corn free)<\/li>\n<li>Ground black pepper to taste<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves garlic<\/li>\n<li>Several slices of crispy bacon crumbled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Put everything but the bacon and pepper into a pot and bring to a boil.<\/p>\n<p>2. Reduce to a simmer and cook until squash, leeks, and potato are soft.<\/p>\n<p>3. Transfer soft squash, leeks, garlic and potato to a blender or processor and pur\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>4. Return everything to the pot and mix. Add bacon and pepper when ready to serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe theme for this week seems to be movies: Here are five&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=49761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Movie Sets &#038; French Canadian Potage&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,16,486],"tags":[307,468],"class_list":["post-49761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-columbia","category-canada","category-vancouver","tag-gluten-free","tag-life-on-the-road","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49761"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93155,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions\/93155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}