The weather took a turn for the worse this weekend, and for some reason my mind turned to ice cream! Vegan ice cream in particular. Go figure! Maybe I’m longing for the real summer to make an appearance. It’s the Victoria Day weekend (known affectionately as the two-four weekend), which has a history of turning [...]
Since reading an article in the 2nd Lucky Peach edition about miso, I’ve had thoughts of its rumbling around in the back of my head. We usually have a couple of tubs of it in the fridge — the white miso for quick soups, addition to sauces and miso marinades for broiled fish and meat [...]
You asked for it! You got it! This recipe for gluten-free bagels was borne out of two things: a desire to create something without dairy or eggs; and, some mucking around with the gluten-free wild yeast starter I have going. I had tried a number of recipes and variations, but really only ended up with [...]
This may be the first and last non food-related post here, but I wanted to let you all know about a project that has been taking up a fair bit of my time lately, since it is only one week away now! I am one of four women who decided to co-found a women’s conference [...]
We’ve been doing a lot of cooking in the oven lately — partly because things have been pretty busy here, and partly because the oven does a really good job of developing deep caramelized flavours with very little effort. This is one of the savoury condiments that came out of the oven last week. Last [...]
So tomorrow is National Pancake day south of the border (I haven’t seen if its transpiring North of the 49th here), and to celebrate, that famous pancake place IHOP is celebrating by giving away free pancakes in exchange for a donation to the Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. In my book, pancakes are pretty awesome, and [...]
We’re busy in the test kitchen today, but in honour of National Banana Bread day, I figured I would repost one of our favourite gluten-free banana bread recipes This is one of those classic comfort foods that seems oh-so-easy, but needs an appropriate balance of moist cakey goodness without too much fuss to hit that [...]
I figured it was high time to talk once more about that most delicious slow-yet-fast food around … roast chicken! This post has been brought to you by the craving of one husband for chicken quesadillas, my realization that there were no amazing deals on chicken parts at the local supermaket, combined with my unwillingness [...]
Valentines Day here has been busy with the very un-romantic task of preparing and processing a few dozen jars of chutney, leaving little time to angst over what to prepare for Valentines dessert! Fortunately, we had some strawberries waiting in the fridge, and some creme fraiche, handy — the basis for the most delicious strawberries [...]
I’ve been doing some test baking here in the last couple of days, and we’ve been swamped with a surplus of gluten-free bread. Lucky for me, I also had a yen for some bread pudding! This recipe is pretty simple. Take some bread (day-old is good!). cut it into cubes and douse it with a [...]









