A Kitchen Bouquet That Doesn't Need Watering If you’re gearing up for holiday cooking, baking, and feasting, taking an hour to rethink your kitchen organization beforehand is a very a wise idea. Kitchens by their very nature are places of mayhem. Ingredients flying about and pots bubbling over with a circus sideshow of hot pan juggling out of the oven. Simplify and … Read More →
Far Too Many Hands In a fit of reorganization, I finally got round to sorting out my kitchen space to accommodate better video shooting. I’ve been trying to make more visual fodder for the YouTube crowd since that’s what pays me a few desperately needed pennies but the ‘plan, shoot, edit, write, & post’ cycle is no small feat … Read More →
A Couch Surfing Feast I don’t watch much broadcast television. My homemade antenna gets me three channels for the occasional half hour of local news and a bit of background noise for the cats on rainy days. Yes, one of my girls actually watches characters on the screen like stalking a mouse, not that she’d know what to do … Read More →
Eight Minutes Prep, Three Minutes Cook, $2 Ingredients. Done. Very few things please me more than a good pizza. Whether simply topped with cheese and basil or loaded with a farmer’s market full of veg, you can’t beat the universal appeal of flat bread with interesting things on top. The fact that it’s a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide tells me I’m not alone in … Read More →
Simple. Healthy. Fiesta. I’ve whinged on about the lack of Mexican food this far north plenty before. It simply doesn’t exist in the restaurant ecosystem of eastern Canada. One burrito shack and a tamale stall at the farmer’s market for a whole province, both of which have to dull down the cuisine for the tender Maritime palate, simply … Read More →
Concentration is Key Of course there are hundreds of ways to cook a mushroom. There are hundreds of varieties of mushrooms so that only makes sense. There is however one really wrong way to cook a mushroom that I see all too often. Let’s fix that. The water content of mushrooms varies but is usually at least 80% … Read More →
Oat bread. Don't be afraid of the deep dark crust. I wanted a fast and foolproof loaf for everyday consumption but plain white bread from factory producers just wasn’t doing it for me on the flavour front. A hefty loaf that could toast as well as hold not-so-delicate sandwiches was the mission. I tried to fall in love with wholemeal (aka whole wheat) but to … Read More →
