Adventures of a Home Cook
This is a bad a*$ sandwich. Full stop. We are talking chicken with a kick of salt and spice on a freshly toasted baguette, topped with a herbed sweet mango salsa, pickled salty vegetables, a savoury special sauce and in case we hadn’t outdone ourselves …
This year marked my parents 40th wedding anniversary. An amazing accomplishment and constant reminder of how old I am getting. Did I just make this about me? To mark this momentous occasion my sisters and I decided to book a cottage in Grand Bend for …
This year the groundhog did not see its shadow. Meteorologists predicted that we would have a hot spring. I point these things out to explain my resentment at what has been seemingly endless days of rain and cold. I was mislead! We were all mislead! …
I must be late to the “bowl craze”. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, foodies and the general population at large have become obsessed with eating food in bowls: burrito bowls, Buddha bowls, poke bowls. Everywhere you turn these days, there are …
There is nothing better than a summer party in July, a cold beer and the smell of burgers on a charcoal barbeque. And then there are those cold winter months in barbeque Siberia when you yearn for the sun on your skin and a burger …
This dish is quintessential French cooking. As in grab a wooden spoon, put on your apron, and do your best Julia Child impersonation…”If you’re afraid of butter…use cream”. As in grab a bottle of wine, a block of cheese and enjoy the experience. It may …
I try not to get too swept away with the latest food trends. I have no intention of ordering anything “unicorn”. I usually keep my pumpkin spice for pies. But like most people in the past few years, I have become a bit obsessive with …
