I’ve been adding more fish into my diet in recent months, so today I stopped in at Mike’s Fish to see what looked good. Mike’s is the retail outfit at All Seas, our local fish wholesaler. It’s located on Vansco Rd here in South Etobicoke.… Read More
The Elberta Farms Angel dropped off half a dozen super-fantastic ears of sweet corn last evening (along with a basket of the most delicious blueberries). Tuffy P suggested I make us some BBQ Corn Chowder. It’s been long enough since I’ve made something like this… Read More
I can’t remember ever liking kale. I must have had a bad experience with it when I was a kid. My mom could cook many things tremendously well, wonderfully, beautifully well, but with some vegetables, she would cook them until she was sure they were… Read More
I baked another sourdough loaf this evening after leaving the dough to rise for 12 hours + another half hour loosely wrapped in a tea towel well coated with corn meal and flour. Once again I used my sourdough monster rather than a commercial yeast… Read More
I’ve been occasionally baking no-knead bread in a Dutch oven over the past few months. A couple weeks ago I captured and developed a sourdough monster with the intention of using the same Lahey method only using wild yeast – the monster – rather than… Read More
I don’t make pierogi very often, because I’m slow and clumsy at making them, but I love eating them, and today I made up a batch for dinner on Christmas Day. The handy thing about pierogi is they freeze tremendously well. I place them on… Read More
Tuffy P and Suzanne G have crossed the border at Buffalo after viewing loads of art all around NY State during the past few days. I promised dinner upon their return and I have soup simmering on the stove. Today I made one of our… Read More
I don’t know if roasted squash scones are a thing, but I had a butternut squash in the kitchen and any day is a good day for scones, so I whipped some up. I cut up the squash and tossed the pieces with salt, pepper,… Read More
There are more blueberries in these scones than there should be. I used some blueberries I had frozen and if I followed the recipe it left me with about half a cup of berries in the bag, so I used them all. The result… Read More
I was planning to make split pea soup for tonight’s dinner. It’s almost autumn and it’s been a while since I made one of my weekly soups. At some point this morning it occurred to me that I really ought to make some bread to… Read More
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