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…
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,…
I got my first catering contract since the end my office job. Makes me feel legit and on the right track. The client wanted a cold buffet-style brunch for 28 people with “the usual suspects”, i.e. sandwiches, salads, quiches, smoked salmon and a variety of breads (baguette, croissant, bagel). Why…
I hadn’t had my sister and her family over for dinner in ages and felt it was long overdue! Last night we finally got together. In September I bought a lovely Cinderalla pumpkin with the intention of doing something good with it. I was supposed to compare it to a regular every-day…
Sometime during our breaks in yesterday’s tapings – we did have to wait for items to cook – I showed Laurie-Ève (my camerawoman for the day) my recipe book & magazine collection and explained to her that my love for cooking and entertaining really started when I was 18-19 years…
I am a soup-lover. I could eat one every day but, it seems to me you need to have a little bit of a chill in the air to really enjoy them – especially the hearty kind. But then, maybe that’s just me. I went out for a walk with…
Yesterday morning was my annual physical so I could not eat breakfast at my usual time. By the time I returned home from being poked and prodded, I was starving. Didn’t even want to take the time to toast a piece of bread so I poured a bowl of cereal…
It is possible to eat a good meal on a small budget. Sure this recipe can be done with filet mignon or some other beef cut but let’s face it, we don’t always have the cash to splurge and frankly, when hamburger is on special, I stock up on it…
