One of my favorite breakfast items (or dinner items during the week) to make when the kids are home on a Saturday or Sunday is this "Settled Eggs" dish. I call it Settled Eggs as the eggs are broken into place and "settle" and cook nicely around the mixture of rustically cut bacon, sausage, tomato, [...]
I've been making this pizza for a number of years and have seen many variations on the theme. In Italy, where simple and fresh is the premise of any dish, in France, with a béchamel sauce as a base and here with many different additions in many different pizza locations. This is one of my [...]
As a budding young Chef, this was one of my favorite dishes to make for my family for breakfast on the weekends. I think I saw it made for the first time on The Galloping Gourmet - Graham Kerr, remember him (that's how small a bud I was when I first made this). I liked [...]
Okay I couldn't resist one more Irish dish. This is a classic taste with the combination of sweet cabbage and salty corned beef. Layer them like you would a Napoleon pastry and voila, you've just brought country food to the city! The addition of some heat takes it up a few levels but layering like [...]
I've got a couple of different recipes for this year's St. Patrick's Day. Yes I know, everyone is posting a variation or two. This is my favorite go-to comfort-food, Shepherd's Pie. It uses Guinness in the body of the recipe - although there's nothing stopping you from having a cold one once it's all done [...]
What a refreshing thing a salad is! It becomes even tastier when you can add a few simple ingredients that taste good (are good for you) and easy to do. This is called a Bloody good Caesar because of the addition of blood orange segments (I know, they look orange - sadly I cannot make segments [...]
This is a twist on the classic Aloo Gobi dish. I was going to call it Cauliflower and Edamame - Gobi Style, but that would mean "Cauliflower" style, and really, what does that mean?! So, Curried Cauliflower and Edamame it is. I love this dish even though it has no meat in it. I love published [...]
We had these on the weekend! We weren't going away and it is so cold, we just needed to feel like we were in the tropics. Inspired by my son (who was home for the Family Day weekend) and daughter who wanted only veggies for diner. My son paid some of his way through University [...]
We had this for dinner on Saturday night. Comforting food for a cold winter's day! It's a twist on an old classic. This makes for a nice presentation and a delicious main. You will soon read my Sopressata blog where I spent a day making Sopressata and Italian sausage from scratch with a wonderful fellow [...]
I love pot roasts. They take a generally less flavorful and relatively inexpensive cut of meat and through the magic of braising, turn it into a superb tasting meal. I used a bottom round cut, for this pot roast. Not a lot of fat, just a beautiful piece of meat. The trick with pot roasts [...]
