The holiday season at our house means family movie nights. For those occasions it’s nice to have a casual, make-ahead dinner that requires little more than to pop it in the oven and wait for the...
Read More →Bacon, mushrooms, tomato, onions and potato. the ultimate hangover cure. London Pub Hash with English Bangers and Eggs. This will put you right as rain, no matter how overly indulgent you were with the sherry the night before!...
Read More →Cold weather calls for deep comfort. Nothing warms you from the inside out like a steaming bowl of Split Pea Bacon Soup. A twist on a Canadian classic, made when the larder was low and...
Read More →The best way to develop your palate is to venture into parts unknown and let your taste buds explore. Discover a little heat, and sweet island spice, in your own kitchen with West Indian Chicken...
Read More →A truly Wicked Mac & Cheese starts with a good bechamel, and a good bechamel, starts with the right ratio of butter flour and milk. Add cheese and you have mornay sauce, which in my...
Read More →Take a couple of bottles of good, full bodied apple cider, a pork picnic shoulder, a good spice rub and a few hours in the oven and you’ve got juicy, tender Cider Braised Pulled Pork....
Read More →Weeknight dinners call for fast, easy cooking. Packed with vitamins B6, A and C, plus potassium, iron, magnesium and calcium, kale is one of nature’s super foods, Wilted Baby Kale is barely cooked, leaving all that nutrition intact. Most of...
Read More →Exploring my Roma roots with some good Gypsy comfort food, hearty Romanian Style Goulash. A rich beef and tomato stew heavy with Paprika, it’s slow food to warm your soul as nights get longer and...
Read More →Leaning decidedly French, a big pot full of Lentil Sausage & Bacon Casserole, a one pot meal that takes two pots to make, but who’s counting?! Inspired by a couple of links of mild veal-herb...
Read More →Made with some of my favorite cold weather ingredients: apples, caramel, salt, pecans and brown butter, this is a cake for the pale light of late winter. Rustic and homey, Salted Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake...
Read More →It’s cold. We’ve got snow up the wazoo and here comes Valentine’s Day. For my money nothing says love quite like a bowl of Mushroom Risotto. It’s a warm, starchy hug that you can wrap...
Read More →Cooked low and slow, until they’re fall off the bone tender, Moroccan Inspired Lamb Shanks is comfort food at it’s midwinter best. Warmly spiced and heavily sauced with rich, meaty intensity. There was a time when farmers couldn’t give shanks away, but...
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