This year we’re having a family dinner Christmas Day at our place, and family from both sides are going to break bread with us. Since I’m off work this week and have a little time, I’m going to make some of the foods my mom… Read More
Yes, it’s Birthday Cake flavour OREO cookies. Tuffy P is out at a work event this evening, but she was thinking of me…there was a healthy salad in the fridge….and a bag of these babies on the counter. If you’re wondering, yes they are very… Read More
Over the years we’ve developed a taste for spicy foods, and at a certain point we found those dried red chiles to be way too bland. It happens I have a dehydrator I use for drying wild mushrooms, and it turns out it’s great for… Read More
First, go find some fresh wild morels. Then….heat your pasta water and while that is happening, roughly chop up a pile of morels and more finely chop up some garlic and a few sage leaves. While the pasta is cooking…. …..heat up a big cast… Read More
In my travels this weekend I stopped in at Ontario Gas BBQ. My friends might think this is odd behaviour for me since I don’t own a gas or propane grilling unit, but in fact this place also sells an amazing selection of equipment and… Read More
Tuffy P brought me dinner today from The Pie Commission, located near Queensway and Islington here in Toronto. Check out their menu! Tuffy brought me two of these small pies home for dinner, a chicken cheddar bacon mash pie and their special today, a pulled… Read More
Starsky’s on a Saturday morning….
When is a poblano not a poblano? In our area, I rarely see poblano chiles in our grocery stores, so when I saw them at Starsky’s the other day, I bought a bunch of them. Some went into last night’s soup and the rest I… Read More
I’ve noticed, looking at the stats for this blog, that quite a few people have been searching for ways to prepare lobster mushrooms. Here’s one way – the way I prepared them for dinner tonight in fact. Lobster mushroom and sausage omelet You need: lobster… Read More
The Mushroom Hunters – On the Trail of an Underground America, by Langdon Cook, explores a foraging culture the extent of which I had never imagined. The massive extraction on tasty edibles from the woods of the mountain west is driven by popularity of local… Read More
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