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Posts Tagged ‘11 Tastes of Feastmas’

11 Days of Feastmas – Chestnuts roasting…

Posted in Special Series, tagged , on December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I had the thrill of traveling France and Italy over the Holidays in the early part of this decade.  I spent almost a month exploring this part of Europe (my first time “overseas”) and eating my way through the old world. I started the trip in Firenze (Florence) and remember the first night I spent [...]

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11 Days of Feastmas – Raising the BAR on stuffing

Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged , on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Turkey is a traditional feast for us on the Holidays.  One of my favourite parts of the meal is the stuffing – ours is a combination of bread that we cube and dry for a few days, sausage meat and a few other tasties.  It could be a meal in its own right. My first [...]

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11 Days of Feastmas – Marinating Cheese

Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged , on December 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This is a last minute addition to the Holiday feasts – a new friend at work shared a holiday tradition he holds dear with me yesterday and it simply sounded so good that we had to give it a whirl. Get yourself a piece of Stilton cheese Poke holes in it with a skewer.  Do [...]

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11 Days of Feastmas – Infusing Holiday Cheer

Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged , on December 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I have wanted to infuse vodka with fruit for Christmas for years – and never got around to it.  Now that I have started the process I feel silly for not doing it sooner – it was all of 10 minutes work. Wash, seed and stem your fruit.  I used apples and pears because they [...]

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11 Days of Feastmas – Midday snack – Duck Prosciutto

Posted in Curing and Smoking, tagged , on December 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I technically started cooking our Christmas dinner on October 28th with the Lemon Confit project.  The rinds from those lemons will form a key part of our stuffing and I love that there has been a long process of curing to transform groceries into something we cannot readily purchase.  I love the romance of it [...]

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11 Days of Feastmas – Day 1 – Secret Kitchen Weapons

Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged , on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A few days before the family arrives I will roast 3-4 whole bulbs of garlic (if not more). Garlic is local, seasonal , healthy and I love it. It is also a great secret weapon that can help you cover for forgetting groceries.  If you forgot pancetta to throw into brussel sprouts you can replace [...]

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11 Days of Feastmas

Posted in Special Series, tagged , on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The cold has swept across Toronto this week.  We have had our first snow, storm and tough driving.  What felt like an eternal fall has instantly turned a new leaf and is a bitter winter.  It must be Holiday season! Christmas, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year, Ashura, the Julian New Year and more are all significant [...]

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