Food, Travel, and Cooking!
Such a good salad to have in your repertoire! Just think…sitting outside on a warm night, firing up the grill, having a glass of wine…does it get any better? The dressing can be made a couple of hours ahead. I bought rib steaks from P.E.I. (Prince Edward Island) at a local butcher shop. They were […]
This dressing has been in my repertoire since early 1990! It is just plain yummy on fresh greens. I have made all sorts of adaptations to the original recipe and they are all, if I may say so, excellent! I am always fond of using fresh herbs, they add such a fresh taste! Makes Approximately 1 […]
I’ve been making this fresh tasting soup for many years and it’s always a welcome first course for dinner or a main course with multigrain bread or soda bread (recipe below), some cheese, perhaps an English cheddar or Scottish cheese. The addition of ginger and lemon gives the soup a nice zing. Our local carrots […]
Whenever I made this soup, there were always compliments forthcoming from one of the executives I cooked for, which is why I named it after him! He loved it! It’s an easy soup to do and I have substituted cooked, pureed butternut squash for the pumpkin when I happen to have it on hand. Soup […]
An oldie but goodie! My Dad loved this salad and turned me onto it a long ago. I think in those days it was dressed with Thousand Island dressing. It’s the perfect way to use up some of that leftover Christmas turkey and ham if you have some! The salad goes over a treat anytime […]
The fall and winter, when you can buy locally grown celeriac (also known as celery root), is the time for this salad. Have a bowl of acidulated water ready to place the julienned celeriac in once cut. Makes 6 – 8 Servings 1 large celeriac, peeled, julienned 3 large celery stalks, thinly sliced at an […]
In the fall and winter this salad has it all; local celeriac (also known as celery root), celery, fennel, apples and hazelnuts all at our Farmer’s Markets. What luck! You know what they say “eat your roots”. Celeriac may not be beautiful looking but it has a lovely delicate celery flavour that is terrific in […]
With the combination of chicken, celery, apples, grapes, walnuts with blue cheese is, in my opinion, a perfect main course salad! You could use cooked, cubed turkey for the salad too. We buy our grapes, grown in Kelowna, B.C. from the farmer’s market in the fall…they are so worth waiting for. Makes 8 Servings 4 […]
There’s an excellent reason for this photo! It’s probably the best blue cheese I’ve ever eaten, hands down. We discovered it at Neal’s Yard in London and were completely blown away! There are many fabulous artisanal blue cheese available at fine cheese shops. If you’ve made some of my salads, you’ll see I like combining […]
I had a delicious salad for brunch one day years ago and decided to try to re-create it at home. I think it came out pretty well! I always liked to serve this at the corporate dining room where I worked as in-house chef, when the Mandarin oranges arrived at the market in winter. Makes […]