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Trying to find seasonal and local ingredients for the plante'S and your health.
What a week-end! While I was contemplating cutting short my stay-cation and joining the throngs in besieged Toronto, I almost missed out on a beautiful opportunity. You see, while I had my eyes riveted onto the telly looking at the chaos that was Tor (read full article)
I've long believed that I was not keen on rice, a fact that I have previously mentioned here, but I am reminded daily that many of my go-to comfort foods are rice-based: rice pudding; rice omelet (oh! I'll have to write about that one...); and risott (read full article)
What's not to love about the month of June? The warm weather is definitely here to stay, summer will officially begin with the solstice, and it's a veritable cornucopia for the seasonal food lover! Also, many of you will be setting up your barbecues (read full article)
No long winded-story today, just a quick introduction and a recipe...The non-winter we've been having over here has got my brain all addled, and I have found myself craving raw and cold dishes. Like this root slaw: It's nothing revolutionary, just an (read full article)
March is a busy month. Which is kind of ironic, really, since March is kind of dead in the restaurant business... Yet, I am always running around like a headless chicken in March, trying to get all my seeds in pots of soil, turning my compost s (read full article)
I can smell it already! Spring is just around the corner! It really is: the other day I was walking downtown and I saw my first dog turd poking through the snow. A sure sign of spring if you ask me.March is upon us, and I am crossing my fingers (read full article)
I'm really proud of today's recipe... It was a hard time a comin' in the midst of a crazy week at work, but I really needed a birthday cake for today. So I worked double time (at home), and have had to eat a lot of failures, but it was worth it.Isn't (read full article)
Reading about other people's comfort foods got me thinking about my comfort foods... Definitely sweet. Despite claiming that I am a consummate salty snacker in my previous post, my surefire-go-tos are sweets that harken back to my childhood: custard (read full article)
A word to the wise: if you want to keep your root veg over the winter, an unheated guest bedroom is not cold enough!I still have some vegetables left over from my All Hallows harvest. They were fine in the garden shed, but the frigid weather hit. So (read full article)
The shorter days and brisk morning air have had their toll on me, and all I want to do is burrow myself deep under my duvet... but I really was looking forward to going into work this morning. I had my my menu all planned out, and I had a pretty good (read full article)
Happy All Saints Day!!!Oh what a glorious day it was today! After the crappy All Hallows' Eve we had here in Montreal, I would bet anything that all the lost souls hanging about were quite happy to be on their way to the after-life... And we're back (read full article)
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