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Pantry Staples – Vegetarian – Red Lentil, Ginger and Apple

A delightful tasting lentil (dal) dish that is vegetarian and tasty enough even for the carnivores to enjoy. It's a meal on it's own or can be a side to a meal.  I’m using my favorite red lentils for this but you could use any type of lentil, just adjust the cooking time. You can [...]

Pantry Staples – Vegetarian – Red Lentil, Ginger and Apple2020-10-12T19:36:11-04:00

Golden Turmeric Cake with Orange Blossom Buttercream Icing

This is a cake making the rounds right now on the internet. It’s unusual – I would never have thought to put turmeric in a sweet cake. But it works! It also gives the cake a brilliant yellow hue. It isn’t featured anywhere with the icing, I just thought it would be a nice finish [...]

Golden Turmeric Cake with Orange Blossom Buttercream Icing2020-10-12T19:36:11-04:00

Mother’s Love – Salt Cod (Bacalhau)

Mother's Day is approaching fast!  We knew it would feel different this year with the loss of parents, but with the virus, it will be almost spooky.  We always celebrated this day together with the all the mothers in the family.  It was always a special meal where everyone (it was supposed to be just [...]

Mother’s Love – Salt Cod (Bacalhau)2020-10-12T19:36:11-04:00

Pantry Staples – Minestrone

I've been cooking and baking and experimenting and blogging - and loving it, for the last 2 months. My waistline has benefited most from all of this. So time for something on the lighter side - in calories but not in taste. This is my minestrone soup recipe. Pantry staples of course and ideas for [...]

Pantry Staples – Minestrone2020-10-12T19:36:11-04:00

Pantry Staples – Fresh Blueberry and Strawberry Jam Loaf

Truth be known, this is a recipe that called for rhubarb. Couple of things, I'm not growing rhubarb in my backyard nor have I bought any as I just saw this posted by Lucy Waverman, another Canadian food icon. It would be amazing with rhubarb, I can just taste the sour/sweet rhubarb blending in but [...]

Pantry Staples – Fresh Blueberry and Strawberry Jam Loaf2020-10-12T19:36:11-04:00

Pantry Staples – Chicken Curry

Apparently I have posted this a few weeks back... so don't read any further unless you are just tuning in for the first time. Although my first paragraph has been re-written. Too much time on my hands!! In my cooking classes, I quite often get asked for simple curry recipes.  Quite honestly, a true Indian [...]

Pantry Staples – Chicken Curry2020-10-12T19:36:11-04:00

Pantry Staples – Sweetly Spiced Cauliflower – Vegetarian

If you have ever attended any of my classes, you have heard me make the disclaimer that "I don't follow recipes, even if they are my own". There are exceptions, classics like Julia Child’s Provencal Gratin or a cookie recipe from Dorie Greenspan – I mean really, these are classics and need no tweaking to [...]

Pantry Staples – Sweetly Spiced Cauliflower – Vegetarian2020-10-12T19:36:12-04:00

Pantry Staples – What’s in your Pantry?!

I quite often get asked "What's in my pantry?" That’s a tough question for me to answer in a short blog. Main reason is because I’m in the food business, but even before this, I was always a foodie.  If I saw something unusual in the grocery store that I had not seen/tried before, I [...]

Pantry Staples – What’s in your Pantry?!2020-10-12T19:36:12-04:00

Levain-esque Chocolate Walnut Cookies

I first heard about this cookie from my daughter who has learned wisely about cookies from her mother. She visits New York quite often and this is a staple part of her diet – which worries the heck out of us, whenever she is there. This is – make no mistake about it, a rich [...]

Levain-esque Chocolate Walnut Cookies2020-10-12T19:36:12-04:00

Pantry Staples – Korean Style Chicken on Cloud (no flour) Bread

This is another one of my favorite chicken dishes. Again using boneless, skinless chicken thighs, but feel free to use whatever cut you like and you can also do bone-in, but do make it skinless. It is a dish whose origins come from a cooking class my mother-in-law attended when in Uganda almost 50 years [...]

Pantry Staples – Korean Style Chicken on Cloud (no flour) Bread2020-10-12T19:36:12-04:00
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