As I mentioned in the box cookie mix post of last week, it is entirely possible to make healthy and delicious cookies from scratch. And yes, ones that don’t taste like a patchouli-scented hippie named Sunrise made them. The secret to these ones, as is the secret to many things in life, is a little [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2007’
Candy Freak
In lieu of real content, I’m recycling the last few articles I wrote last year for Well Fed. So blah blah blah, appeared on the Well Fed Network, yadda, yadda yadda. There is another Sweets Expo occurring this coming May. I suspect Steve Almond will not be there. One of the cool things about writing [...]
Lunar New Year Food
Dragon’s Beard Candy. A traditional Lunar New Year treat. The making of Takoyaki – fried squid balls – in a special Takoyaki pan. The process was fascinating to watch, especially when the balls were flipped. Takoyaki serving suggestion – dust with ground seaweed (and possibly some powdered green tea) and add plenty of mayo. While [...]
C Is For Cookie – The Nitty Gritty
I spent Saturday in a conference room full of farmers and nutritionists. I scored a media pass to the Canadian Organic Growers conference, and besides the free organic lunch, everyone went home with a bag of organic swag. Most of the stuff was from President’s Choice Organics and included cereal, chocolate and tea. Some of [...]
Year of the Pig
I was always under the impression that during the lunar years, the animals represented were supposed to be honoured. So all you people calling this “The Year of Bacon” had better just stop it.
Cooking For Dummies
It’s pretty much been determined that The Food Network has been dumbed down to make it more “entertaining” as opposed to educational. Cooking shows never give you the recipe for things anymore, and viewers choose their programming based on pretty hair, big boobs and which TV celebrity chef has the most gadgets for sale. Apparently [...]
Valentine Cupcakes
Cupcake pr0n for V-day. As you can see by some of the examples, my frosting was a bit too soft so the fancy flowers I made with the funky set of flower tips all kind of oozed into the same shape. There is potential for an entire bouquet next time around, though. But despite the [...]
This Is Why People Go Out For Brunch
I cook breakfast. Every day. Some days I do nothing more than put some fruit on cereal, but most mornings, Greg and I eat a real breakfast; buckwheat pancakes; quinoa and maple-glazed trout; scrambled eggs or sometimes oatmeal. So when the weekend comes around, I am more than happy to toss aside my spatula and [...]
That Tony – Always Tells It Like It Is
Bourdain is guest blogging again over on ruhlman.com, and as usual, he waxes philosophical on his favourite topic, The Food Network and its imminent decline. Working his way through the most well-known, he makes his feelings for you-know-who very well obvious: RACHAEL: Complain all you want. It’s like railing against the pounding surf. She only [...]
Eat Like a Canadian
Canadians At Table: A Culinary History of Canada Dorothy Duncan When I was in junior high school, I was very excited about taking history class. That was until I got to that class and realized “history” was really all about who won what war, and not about how people really lived. Feminists would interject here [...]
