It`s been a long time since we`ve posted a recipe – especially one focussed on an economical meal. A good friend (the lovely Jesse) recently pointed our that she`d love to see a return of our Cheap Tuesday Gourmet series. Back then we shared about 25 recipe ideas that were considerably less than $5 a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces’
Polenta with Chevre and Red Pepper Puree (Recipe)
Posted in Vegetarian, tagged cooking, Food, polenta, Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces on January 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »
How to gawk and get away with it (for food’s sake)
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged epicurious, Food, food blogs, food gawker, food gawking, foodblogs, foodgawker.com, Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever put down a menu to take a few minutes and look at what everyone else in the restaurant is eating? Have you been caught? I have no shame of checking out what other people are eating – it quite often influences what I end up ordering. I try not to make it [...]
Oh Nuts… I Like Salad after all
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged cooking, dinner ideas, Food, salad, salad recipes, salad with peanuts, Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces, spinach salad on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dana is the resident salad expert here – though I’ve been trying my hand at it recently with some mixed results. The simple salad above has some pretty strong flavours – fortunately we are not afraid of going bold with a few flavours. This was baby spinach, toasted peanut, shaved Spanish onion, feta, chili flakes, [...]
$6 Kitchen Makeover
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged cooking, cooking tips, eating, Food, herbs, seasonal eating, Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces, Toronto on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is a lot of money being made in the industry of teaching and enabling people to become better cooks. Cookbooks, the Food Network and thousands of tools and gadgets. This isn’t meant as a complaint so much as an observation – there is a lot of excitement around food and so many ways to [...]
Putting me to shame…Alinea at the daycare?
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged Alinea, Alinea at home, Alinea cookbook, Alinea Mosaic, Grant Achatz, kids cooking, molecular gastronomy at home, Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you have not seen me rant about Alinea yet, this may not make a whole lot of impact. Alinea was a pilgrimage to me – a stunning discovery of art meeting science meeting food meeting passion meeting holly crap I can’t believe someone can cook something like that. I like to think that I was [...]
Shhh! Its a secret…
Posted in Books, tagged chef, chefs, cook books, cookbooks, eat, eating, Food, recipe, Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces on January 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I really could buy a thousand cook books – ironic seeing that I rarely follow a recipe, avoid measuring things and have little to no storage room for them. This is a book that reads like a blog – quick, sweet, practical. Each tip is about 2 small pages (the book is just larger than your [...]
Slow-Roasted Tomatoes
Posted in Techniques, tagged cooking, eat, eating, Food, recipe, Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces, tomato, tomatoes on January 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This is the first of many posts on tomatoes. My parents, Dana and I canned 8 bushels worth of sauce this year (around 180 mason jars full over a weekend). One of my all-time favourite foods is a toasted tomato sandwich. It was a tomato that made me cry at Alinea. They are simply one [...]
Molecular Gastfoolery
Posted in Articles, tagged chefs, cooking, El Bulli, Fat Duck, Fernan Adria, Food, French Laundry, Harold McGee, Heston Blumenthal, molecular gastronomy, Per Se, Soups, Stews, Stocks and Sauces, Thomas Keller on December 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Happy Sunday. Many who read these pages will know a few names in the cooking world – if not many more than me. I like to know what the world’s top and most innovative food people are up to – regardless of how complex their technique or equipment, I find that one can pick up something [...]
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