Fish Market – A Cookbook for Selecting and Preparing Seafood by Kathy Hunt is a must have cookbook to guide you in purchasing and preparing fish and seafood. The Introduction contains valuable information on selecting seafood, cleaning fish, cutting steaks and fillets, cooking equipment, and ingredients. The next 8 chapters lists over 130 recipes [...]
The Walnut Torta: A Tribute to my Mother by Tanya Reda
Growing up, the walnut torta as we call it, was THE cake that was made for all family functions. To this day it remains a family favorite and the only cake my uncles ever talk about. I can still remember watching my grandfather sitting at the kitchen table grinding the walnuts with the hand grinder [...]
Canadian Food Experience Project: My First Authentic Canadian Food Memory
We entered a wooden cabin which was surrounded by tapped maple trees and sat at long wooden tables with people we didn’t know. First we were served a robust pea soup, and then plates of boiled potatoes, beets, ham, eggs, pancakes, oreilles de crisses (deep-fried smoked pork jowls) and pitchers of pure maple syrup would [...]
Cookbook Review: Afternoon Tea by Suzanne Perazzini
Afternoon Tea by Suzanne Perazzini is a delightful e-cookbook. There are 50 delicious recipes to choose from accompanied by beautiful colour photos. The Chapters The contents begin with an introduction by Suzanne Perazzini followed by the Ingredient chapter which lists the main ingredients required to make the recipes listed in the e-cookbook. The Base Recipes [...]
Guest Post – 3 Simple Cooking Habits That May Prevent You From Getting Food Poisoning
Have you ever had food poisoning? If you’re unsure, the answer is probably no. You would remember having food poisoning. It is a terrible experience, and many people feel terribly ill while they are experiencing it. Whether you want to avoid it entirely or you never want to have it again, these cooking habits can [...]
Cooking in Spoleto – Strangozzi with Truffle Sauce
We had arrived at the hilltop town of Spoleto, located in central Umbria, Italy, on the first day of our seven day culinary tour to taste the local cuisine and for our cooking lesson at il Ristorante Panciolle.Since I am a first generation Italian-Canadian born to a Sicilian mother and Molisano father, I grew [...]
Daring Bakers Challenge: Savarin
Natalia of Gatti Fili e Farina challenges us to make a traditional Savarin, complete with soaking syrup and cream filling! We were to follow the Savarin recipe but were allowed to be creative with the soaking syrup and filling, allowing us to come up with some very delicious cakes. A Savarin, named after Brillat-Savarin, a [...]
Nordic Ware Cookware Review
In a couple of days I will be enroute to the 2013 Food Bloggers of Canada conference at the Hockley Valley Resort in Hockley Valley, Ontario. This will be my first conference ever and I am so excited to be going with Silvana from Truffles, Thimbles and Threads who just happens to be my sister! It [...]
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