Food, Travel, and Cooking!
The “family” is coming to an early Christmas dinner a few days before Christmas. Just the five of us this year but nonetheless, we want to have a “proper” feast! I’ve been working on the menu and of course, as usual, it’s the veggies that seem to present problems! This person doesn’t like that and […]
It’s the time of the year I always look forward to! Being in the kitchen and baking not only traditional goodies for Christmas but a few new things to change it up a bit. Memories always rise up when the house fills with the aromas of Mom’s shortbread, mince tarts, Christmas cakes, and stollen for […]
Do you ever read the comments from people who have made the recipes from various sites, Epicureous as an example? Just for fun I thought I would. OMG…who are these people? Often the comments will say they made the recipe but changed up and/or swapped out all kinds of ingredients and then say that they […]
Sunday, November 17th, a very important and poignant day! The rose in the photo comes from her favourite rosebush that I saved when their house was sold. My mom would have celebrated her 93rd birthday this year and I wish we could spend the day together. I would make her a cake. Most of the […]
Thank goodness for PBS and their T.V. cooking shows in the ‘70’s, 80’s and ‘90’s. What would I have done without them! Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Pierre Franey “first you take the chicken”, Anne Willan, Keith Floyd (for his infectious joy of food and sense of the ridiculous), Lorenza di Medici and Lidia Bastianich to name a […]
We’ve been talking about driving down the road one day to visit Portland and we finally we made it! My driver decided he did not want to make 504 km (313 miles) drive that takes around 6 hours, depending on how “nice” the American Customs guys are at the moment! So…we booked seats on the […]
One of the things I really love to do is test out recipes that sound interesting. The other day I was thinking of making an arugula salad with mosto cotto, which is cooked grape must, because I just happened to have some on hand. We bought it on our last trip to Chianti, and I’ve […]
Once upon a time there was a very happy cook, me! Nowadays, not so much. I blame the poultry police! I don’t think there are many who don’t love a really good roast chicken or turkey. Something that has been in the back of mind for a number of years re-emerged when were in England […]
Some suggestions for choosing the wine to go with that fabulous meal you are preparing. This won’t be anything new to a lot of you, but for some, it might just come in handy! Like when you have bought a wonderful wine and want to cook something that will be a complement to each other! […]
A good friend recently pointed out to me that I always seem to make friends with butchers when we travel! Well…I hadn’t really thought about it but then again, I guess it’s true and considering we cook while on vacation, it’s a good thing. First it was “the butcher of Panzano” in Chianti, then the […]