It’s something I wanted to try a long time ago and for reasons that escape me, I never did. What am I talking about? The classic French omelette. I remember watching Jacques Pépin make one and it looked so easy and yet… here I was eons later, still having not…
Back in November, 2021, I listened to Stanley Tucci read his book, Taste, My Life Through Food on Audible. It was wonderful and his enthusiasm contagious. There were so many recipes, I had to buy the book. Can you imagine trying to find the recipes in a recording? Even if…
There are benefits to not having to worry about what to feed anyone for supper. You can stand at your counter, open your container of leftover broth from Sunday night’s Chinese Fondue with your kids, which is now so thick it is almost a spread, and dip and scoop the…
It was not planned. I was not going to do two soup recipes in a row but then I made this and well, the decision was out of my hands. Okay, okay, not really, I do have free will, but it is SO damn good, I just had to share.…
I was trying to decide what my first food post would be. I was pretty darn sure it would be one of the soups I made from The Simmering Chef‘s special series 31 Soups for 31 Days but which one? As I contemplated, I reheated a bowl of Cawl Cennin. …
Wow. I let his blog die back in June, 2014. I wonder what was going on at that time for me to decide not to pursue this? I know Mick and I had worked on my salmon tartar video at Tammy and Andre’s, which ended up having a bug in…
So my rhubarb is out of control in my garden. Seriously huge. Hogging all the sunlight from the pepper plants! Soooo…. what to do about it? There is no way I am going to simply pull it out, cut it up and freeze it all for later. (Though, of course,…
So… all over Facebook and the Internet is the recipe for baking an egg in half of an avocado. Well, guess what? It is insanely delicious! I tried the “plain” one which is simply to make a larger hole than what the pit leaves behind, crack in an egg, sprinkle…
The other day I cooked a whole duck on the barbeque. It was my first time cooking a whole bird. I’ve done duck breasts countless times but this, this was a whole ‘nother thing! Well, despite my having put an orange and garlic cloves, salt and pepper in the cavity,…
My lovely neighbour, five houses down, is getting married soon. Fun stuff. Her brother last August and now her! Excitement in that family, for sure. So her sister approached me for a special cake. In the shape of a teapot! Of course I said yes. She then asked me to…
