After a recent food shoot, I was please to realize that being the lowest on the totem pole (that's usually me) garners you first pick at the unused goods table. You see, most photo shoots for food have leftovers of ingredients and in ...
Who knew I could feed myself from a front yard garden alone? Other than the flour, I grew everything for this dish in my small, urban yard; potatoes, garlic, chard, tomatoes and squash. I may have mentioned my front yard transformation last spring. With the ...
JANUARY The citrus obsessed that I am decided away with diets and and that pink grapefruits were way underused: Red Grapefruit Curd Filled Donuts Every winter likes the cold and every winter I battle it with something extra warm:...
It's the end of the year, time to clean up. Clean out the fridge and my posting draft folder. A little while back, I couldn't help but over hear an online friend of mine, Nicole from Pinch My Salt, describe her clean out ...
Autumn harvest getting you going? Or is it the threat of frost? I'm not exactly sure which it is for me personally, although I really didn't mind scrambling to pick the last of my tomatoes and transfer them into the window. I'm currently vacationing at ...
Oh, fancy me deciding to make a fashionable entrance? No, but with my regular posting gone south with a bit of back problems, I've been away from my desk (& my kitchen). While they say it's not a fractured spine per se, bending has been ...
Spring means babies and like the title states, I'm the sucker. I see, little, fresh veggies and new and I have to cook them up - in magnitude... I couldn't resist, when last time at the market I spotted these miniature marvels. Love 'em or not, these ...
As I sat, thinking what the ultimate food for Sunday would be, it actually took me a bit to come to the chili conclusion. Crazy, yes, I am aware of this. Coming from an advertising background, I have to honestly admit that the majority of my Superbowl viewing experience takes place during half time. Perfect for cooking for a crowd, the chili is a dash of this and a can of that - and then you leave it. So quick and easy, you won't even miss the commercials.
Who doesn't like pizza? I am yet to meet a single soul who would turn down a slice.... Except when it was going to be me with the notion of no cheese. I was always of the mindset that pizza had but one basic construction - a crust (perfect blend of thin and chewy ), sauce (very important) and cheese. - Everything on top of that is really up to an individuals discretion and craving. That was until I had a bite of my first "real European" pizza experience. Being 15 and at the height of my pizza connesseur training, I was in the south of France on exchange. My host mother would pack my lunches complete with a little Mom note, a chocolate and something often mysterious to try; there was infrequent PB&J in Provence. While out in the countryside, our group was left to remark on the construction of Romanesque Aqueducts. Removed from any civilization able to spare me of my brown bag filled with cold and cheeseless pizza with peppers and black olives (with pits!) Starving and only armed with my Orangina, I dug in and discovered a new, old, delicious world of pizza. From that moment, my eyes were opened, my pallet was cleansed and my nose had been lifted to new a pizza snob height never known before; and I was yet to arrive in Italy! Flashing forward 15 some odd years, when trying to capture the best vegan version, I knew that one of those important and very expected elements - cheese, would be missing. Making up for the lack of gooey dairy was actually easy and created a more flavourful pizza than I'd usually eat. The secret of a good crust is always important and the hint for vegan pizza is just to pre-bake the crust a little longer to insure the crispness and then you're free to go to town on virtually any topping you could imagine. Pizza for breakfast? Check out 80 Breakfasts, who is hosting HHDH. I'm sure it will be quite the round-up.
My ever problem solving daughter is always creating new suggestions for dinner and desserts; favourites like Mialita, Chuchetta and the like. Her recipes, with the addition of marshmallows, ketchup and eggs kind of remind me of that show that aired around here in the 80's I always wanted to go on, "Just Like Mom" But this morning, when I rolled out of bed complaining of still feeling under the weather from the night before, she suggested Magic Soup. Magic soup is something that we've made before and she will eat it. All of it, as if it were well, like, magic. First she'll tell me onion, then a carrot, some tomatoes maybe a little celery if she's daring and somehow this soup is normal... soothing and delicious, kind of like Minestrone. Although my barren stomach felt it couldn't handle much more than the thought of dry toast, her idea of this to make me better was just what I needed. Like the kiss on the forehead you'd get from your mom when you were sick, I got one from my five year old and her bowl of soup.
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