Food, Travel, and Cooking!
Here’s another do ahead brunch dish for a stress free host, you can be enjoying your Blood Orange Mimosa while brunch is baking! I don’t know about you, but around the holidays when entertaining can get crazy, we need all the do-aheads we can get our hands on. This can be made vegetarian by leaving out […]
Oh yum…it’s pumpkin time again! These pancakes will definitely fit the bill on Thanksgiving morning! You can easily cut the recipe in half if you only want 8 pancakes. Makes Approximately 16 Pancakes 2 cups unbleached flour (you can use 1/2 cup wholewheat flour) 2 Tbsp. sugar 1 Tbsp. + 1 tsp. baking powder 1 […]
These days at #5 we seem to be eating cherry tomatoes 24/7. I’ve been wanting to make these tarts all summer and finally did! And are we glad I did…they were so good! Whipped up a green salad…dinner! You can easily double the recipe to make 8 servings. The best time to make this is […]
I received a Tuscan cookbook a few years ago from my husband, who, I am sure had no ulterior motives! Italians have a thing about wild spring greens. They forage for them like crazy. Eating only root veggies all winter gets a bit tiresome so the new wild greens are most welcome and viewed as a […]
Am I glad that we can eat wheat! Otherwise, I would be beyond unhappy about missing out on my friend Chris’ amazing baking. I have been an enormous fan and supporter of Christopher Brown’s many delicious offerings ever since he opened Ecco Il Pane here in Vancouver in the early 1990’s. When that bakery cum […]
For a printer friendly version of this recipe, click here. One of our favourite breakfast or brunch plates! For sure, it gets you going! Perhaps for a weekend brunch, with or without guests, maybe a Caesar to kick things off? Makes Approximately 4 Servings For the Beans: 1/2 cup dried black beans, soaked overnight 4 Tbsp., approximately, […]
One of my passions is menu planning! It was almost the best part of my job running a corporate dining room! I have accordion files full of recipe clippings that I haul out for inspiration and have been known to spend hours looking through them. Lately, and it seems to happen at this time […]
Well, the push is on! Phyllis, the elf, has been baking up a storm, menu planning for Christmas and New Years, making lists, inviting guests, accepting invitations, putting up the decorations and last and perhaps not the most fun, cleaning the house! Just a few stocking stuffers left to get and the gifts are ready […]
For a printer friendly version of this recipe, click here. The very first time I made quiche was probably in the 1970’s! I had invited a bunch of my “girlfriends” over for Sunday brunch and wanted to make them something none of us had ever had before. I stumbled upon a recipe for “Quiche Lorraine” […]
Well, you might ask! At this time of the year I seem to go into overdrive with baking! It really takes me back to my days of all those sandwich lunches but mostly all the baking for the goodie trays that my “flock” in the executive dining room loved! Of course because it’s coming up to […]