October 12, 2016 - Only once a year do I make a pumpkin pie - Thanksgiving. Sometimes I switch it up and make pumpkin cheesecake. This year I found a hybrid, a pumpkin pie that used cream cheese and cream to make it extra perfect! Pumpkin cheesecake pie! Doesn't matter, it makes for delicious leftovers, [...]
January 10, 2015 - Atlantic salmon has become vilified in many circles because it is farmed. So many people take a position that Atlantic salmon is somehow a terrible meat product. It's not. That position, in most cases, is one taken out of ignorance because too many people believe the wrong information sources and/or let [...]
December 25, 2014 – Mom seems to stick around at Christmas…like an old Christmas Pudding…. Mom came to stay with us for Christmas in 2011, and out of her old brown suitcase, which was held together with an old belt so that … in her words…” she wouldn’t arrive to [...]
June 15, 2014 - I can't wait until the renovation is over and I can wash salad greens in a kitchen sink rather than in the bathroom. What a pain! But we are getting there. The granite is in, though I'm unhappy with the cutouts for the posts. It turns out that the slab we [...]
March 30, 2014 - Once is luck, twice is interesting, but three times...when you manage to do something perfectly three times in a row... now you have a pattern :) A few weeks ago I bought a bread cloche. I'd been eyeballing it for a few months at a store downtown, and I pretty much [...]
I never eat pomegranates. Not because I don't like them, I love them. But I never eat them because they are more trouble than they are generally worth. But after watching this... I think I may go buy a pomegranate this afternoon and beat the crap out of it just for fun!
March 2, 2014 - Ahhhh, what can be better than a warming bowl of potato-bacon soup on a rainy Sunday evening? I can't think of much! Sundays always seem like the perfect day for easy, lazy, comfort food. Particularly in the winter. I was browsing a magazine on the way back from Nanaimo late last [...]
It's "Soup Sunday" again, and my inspiration came from someone else's (Afton's) recently posted soup recipe. We had a pretty empty cupboard so a trip to Granville Island was in order. It goes something like this: olive oil 6 russet potatoes 3 heads of garlic 2 or 3 large leeks 8 cups chicken stock 2 [...]
154/365 (June 3, 2010) - Do you know what the best part of this photo is? (Besides the fact that I get to eat what's in it) This banana bread is baked in my grandmother's bread tins. Probably about 75 years old, and still going strong in my kitchen. Now that's getting back to basics! [...]
If you haven't seen it yet, turn on your TV Friday nights and watch Jamie's Food Revolution. Unfortunately you've missed the first two evenings, the first of which was the most powerful so far. But some of the really shocking bits are actually in this video so you can catch up. Food seems so simple. [...]