Well, it’s finally happened: we are eating homemade granola bars. Next, we’ll be “harvesting” neighbourhood squirrels for stew or buying an electric car. But, before the tie-dyed crowd starts weaving daisies into my hair, I want to assure everyone that it was my wife who made these. Not me. However, I do have to admit […]
Part three of Super Bowls and Plates. This year’s football feast: Spicy, grilled chicken wings with blue cheese dip. Guacamole, because you have to make something healthy. The easiest barbecue ribs you’ll ever make.
Part two of Super Bowls and Plates. This year’s football feast: Spicy, grilled chicken wings with blue cheese dip. Guacamole, because you have to make something healthy. The easiest barbecue ribs you’ll ever make.
This is Part One of Super Bowls and Plates, a good excuse to have a party. Once a year we pretend to like football so we can have a mid-winter gorge on tavern fare. Last year I made Scotch eggs, a crowd favourite. This year’s football feast: Spicy, grilled chicken wings with blue cheese dip. […]
The holidays are over. Our decadent vacation in the sun is over. New Year’s resolutions are still in full effect. Oh, well. L made these and I can’t resist. Happy Sunday! M&M Cookies Adapted from a recipe at mms.com 1 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed 1 […]
It’s Day Two of my week-long celebration of eggs but, it’s also Super Bowl Sunday. So, here’s the dilemma I faced: how do you fit the wholesome, goodfoodness of eggs onto a menu that consists of the greasy, fatty jumble of nachos, chicken wings, corn dogs, meat-lovers pizza and beer? And, no, egg batter doesn’t […]
There is something close to atavistic about the smell of chocolate chip cookies baking; it’s an aroma that takes you back to your childhood, even if your mother didn’t bake. The heavy, almost cloying scent is strong enough to lure even our teenage zombies, blinking in the daylight, from their lairs. Bite into the cookie […]
“I need to make an unusual dessert for French class homework,” our daughter announced the other night. “What can I make?” “French class?” I asked reflexively, dumbly, before I could help myself. “Yeah,” she said as if unusual dessert is a normal part of French class (she meant to say “like, duh?”), “What can I […]
Every Christmas tradition we have was invented at some time or another. Even the holiday itself was created by the Church so the pagans wouldn’t have all the fun under the mistletoe at the winter celebration of Yuletide. Much of our “modern” Christmas is a 19th-Century creation and we still measure the holiday against the […]
It’s doubtful in this day and age that many children go to bed Christmas Eve with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. These old fashioned sweets just haven’t adapted to the age of high-fructose corn syrup. These days, sugar plums are for adults. In fact, sugar plums are so old fashioned, they’re a […]
Meats, Roots and Leaves 