There’s a veggie food blog I read, Food Blog and The Dog (Cook Eat Live Vegetarian), where somehow, every post is something I want to eat. This was especially true of the Butternut Squash and Chickpea Crumble with Caramelised Onions, Cream Cheese & Oaty Cheddar Topping. Which looked so divine, I had to make it […]
So earlier this week, I picked up a bag of kelp noodles (the Sea Tangle brand, if you’re wondering), and stuck them in the fridge. “What the heck are kelp noodles????“, you may be asking? Well, they are just like they sound. They’re made from kelp (seaweed) and have no taste of their own, so […]
One of my favourite new traditions, is to start the new year with a bowl of lentil & pumpkin soup. It’s a tradition from Nigel Slater that I borrowed from his hunger-inspiring account of what he cooked and ate in a year, The Kitchen Diaries. This year, I had on hand a red kari squash […]
Ohhh, I think that making extra whole wheat pizza dough and freezing it (when I made Whole Wheat Calzones) was a brilliant idea! I was able to make a divine thin-crust pizza from scratch in about 30 minutes! I took out the dough in the morning and let it come to room temperature to defrost. […]
So this has been a big week for me. On Monday I recorded a DVD as a pre-screening application for a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree… and as soon as it’s out of post-production I’ll get some clips up here for you. But, because I was recording this DVD, I was so worried about […]
I may have just discovered my favourite food of all time: Panade. What is a panade you may ask? Well, it’s a savoury bread pudding that tastes like French onion soup with soggy bread. Which I know is not the most appealing-sounding thing — but think about it: a bread casserole baked in veggie stock […]
Dave and Linda from Monkeyshines in the Kitchen chose Soufflés as our November 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge! Dave and Linda provided two of their own delicious recipes plus a sinfully decadent chocolate soufflé recipe adapted from Gordon Ramsay’s recipe found at the BBC Good Food website. Oh, Daring Cooks challenge, you have inspired me again! […]
Oh the magic of slow cooking over low heat. There’s nothing that takes to the caramelisation process better than onions — trust me on this one. This is such a simple process — and it requires time but little effort. It’s the perfect thing to have going on the stove when you’re cooking something else […]
So now that you know how to roast squash, I’m sure you’re dying to know what to do with it… right? Well. How about an amazing pasta dish? If you’ve already got squash roasted, you can have this ready in the time it takes to boil a pot of pasta. Oh yes, it is delicious. […]
My dear friend Liz is pregnant with her second child!! This is fantastic news, except for the fact that I wish I could be closer to her to celebrate. Liz lives in Pennsylvania, and with me up here in Toronto, it makes popping by for dinner & a chat quite tough. When Liz was pregnant […]
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