Adventures of a Home Cook
Every summer my family heads to our cottage in Northern Michigan, where eight adults, a growing number of children and two dogs pray for sunshine and a week of nice weather (it will happen one day!). Cooking for a crowd can be a challenge under …
If I were to impart one and only one cooking tip it would be this: Use a Kitchen Scale. For years kitchen scales have been viewed as a tool useful only for calorie counters and people on fad diets. Let me break the stereotype right now. A scale is …
Everyone needs to have a reliable, ‘go-to’ muffin recipe in their repertoire. A perfect muffin recipe can be altered depending on what fruit is in season, will work well with both fresh and frozen fruit, and is not so sweet that it can’t be served …
My favourite part of grocery shopping in the US (apart from the fact that you can buy alcohol at the Grocery Store- Oh how Canadians’ suffer) is the butter. American butter is sold standard in four 1/4 pound sticks per package. This makes baking and cooking …
There are a lot of reasons to make things from scratch- its usually cheaper, its always tastier, there is a certain pride of ownership, using up mass quantities of *insert random fruit, veggie, etc here* and in some cases you are too darn lazy to …
I spend a significant portion of my mental capacity thinking about my next meal. Almost as soon as I clear the dishes I find myself thinking, ‘what should I serve for dinner tomorrow’. It has become a bit of a disease, mind you a delicious …
Every year when I was a little girl, my mother and great-grandmother would take me strawberry picking. I remember the joy of spending an afternoon under the warm sun, eating berries with their red juice dripping down my chin and sticking to my arms and …
Cookies that is! When I first heard of Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies I thought: these can never live up to their legendary reputation. Originally created by Pierre Hermé, a Parisian pastry chef, Dorie Greenspan included this cookie recipe in an earlier cookbook under the …
The Town of Harrow is a small community in Essex County, just outside Windsor, ON. Essex County is the most southern point in Canada and enjoys long warm summers and an extended growing season (for Canada of course…we are grading on a curve here!). In …
