Food, Travel, and Cooking!
We love Osso Bucco! We’ve even made it using turkey drumsticks! You can easily double the recipe if you have a bigger crowd or if you want leftovers to store. Using red wine and beef broth will make a more intense, richer sauce; depending on your mood! Both are excellent served with either polenta or […]
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 […]
A Hungarian type “stew” in the winter feels like a big hug. It’s a good idea to use good quality Hungarian paprika for an authentic flavour. This goulash would be great with spaetzle or medium egg noodles both of which you can find dried at most grocery stores if you don’t want to make your […]
Baked “risotto” might be a slightly unusual way of preparing. But It’s nice not to have to be stirring it almost constantly when cooking on top of the stove, making things a little easier for the cook. However, feel free to change it up and use the traditional method ! I love the addition of […]
I know, you’re thinking, here she goes again with another one of those rants! It’s just not right. It seems that almost everyone owns a dog or two these days and good on them. My problem is those owners who refuse to pick up their refuse! Do you think it’s fair that they should walk […]
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 […]
One Saturday at the Farmer’s Market, I spied the new crop of Coronation grapes from Stoney Paradise, the best grapes (see below), new crop pears and fabulous looking salad greens. Right then and there I decided to create a salad for dinner that night! You can switch out the Tuscan Pecorino for Gorgonzola Dolce if […]