Adventures of a Home Cook
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 …
Superbowl weekend is upon us. The day where Americans consume mass quantities of chicken wings and drink too much beer in the name of football. It is a glorious day. However this almost national holiday has a bittersweet quality to it. While I already know …
On one of those rare evenings when I actually had a babysitter and a night out on the “town” (this is Windsor, ON, I’m not sure that’s a completely accurate reference) my husband and I went to a lovely tapas-style restaurant that had the atmosphere …
For Christmas I received the best gift: Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook Simple. For those of you not familiar with him, he is a chef, restaurateur and cookbook author, who brought us those wildly unpopular cookbooks Plenty and Jerusalem. I consider him to be the ultimate …
Looking for an easy, make-ahead appetizer?! You can always count on Ina Garten to come through. This is essentially the home-made version of that shrimp appetizer you buy at the grocery store, where the shrimp comes in a ring surrounding a red dipping sauce. Except …
Christmas season has not truly arrived until I host “Cookie day”. Also known as the day my kitchen becomes encased in sticky children’s hands, icing and sprinkles. In my house, sugar cookies are never “Instagram worthy”, pastel, coordinated or beautiful, except in the way that …
