Comfort, and a heaping serving of vegetables, all in one bowl. Harvest Corn Chowder takes all the best elements of a late summer harvest and makes a thick, wholesome soup. Perfect for rainy days, cool...
Read More →Nothing warms the belly quite like a big, bubbling pot of my Red Black Chorizo Chili. This recipe was honed in the professional kitchen, where I rarely write things down and a deal in quantities...
Read More →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 →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 →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 →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...
Read More →Poulet Sauté Chasseur, or Hunter's Chicken, crisp sauteed chicken served with a hearty sauce made with tomatoes, mushrooms a splash of white wine and brandy, flavoured with tarragon, this is a French classic, with...
Read More →The warm flavours of saffron, rosemary, garlic and paprika harmonize in rib-sticking batch of Chicken Paella. Straight from the fields of the Valencia region of Spain, workers would gather around the fire,wooden spoon in...
Read More →Made with beets, cabbage, onions and three meats including a smokey kielbasa sausage, salt pork and a nice shank of beef, a good Russian Borscht is winter comfort food that is as rich in aroma...
Read More →How to warm up on a cold winter night, just wrap yourself around a big pot of Texas-Style Chili. Rather than using ground meat and sauteing, we use a blade roast and slowly braise...
Read More →A Nova Scotia seafood chowder, brimming with chunky bits of sea flesh, it’s good old fashioned Maritime fare. When the snow flies there’s nothing as satisfying is a big, creamy bowl of chowder. My first chowder came...
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