Does the world really need another chocolate chip cookie recipe? Well, I suppose it depends on who you ask and where the recipe comes from. I have been using the same recipe for years and years but when I came across the words “salted butter chocolate chip cookie” in a recipe from sweets master David Lebovitz my heart skipped a beat. Continue reading
My dear sister Lisa has been living in Los Angeles for the past ten years or so. It is hard when your very best friend lives so far away but fortunately she comes up to visit four or five times a year and we usually make it down to see her at least twice. It is not, of course, the same as living in the same city but with our visits and our phone calls and our emails and Skype time we manage to spend a lot of time together. I still miss her though. Continue reading
Hello again! I am very sorry that it has been two whole weeks since my last post. I did hear from a few of you who wondered exactly what was going on? Did I think that just because I posted 12 days in December that is was okay to slack off in January?! The only thing I can say is that it has been a busy and wacky couple of weeks. Continue reading
We are back into the swing of things around here after a wonderful Christmas break. Our time in Mexico was relaxing and filled with perfect weather, some great food and good laughs with my Mom and Dad and we made it home just in time to go up to the cabin and ring in the New Year with some family and dear friends. On New Year’s Day Glen, my sister Lisa (who is up from LA visiting) and I all braved the frigid waters to dive in for the annual Keats Island Polar Bear Swim and then we spent the rest of the day napping, reading and talking and had garlic pasta for dinner. A perfect way to start the year. Continue reading
Today is the first anniversary of this blog! I can’t believe that it’s already been a year, and yet at the same time I can’t believe it has only been a year. It was my dear, sweet sister who encouraged me to start this site and then spent hours helping me set it up. Now, a year later I am amazed at how much I have learned, how many people I have connected with and how much fun I have had. It feels like a lot to celebrate!
Of course there is another big reason to celebrate. The redesign and launch of this new site! I have moved off Blogger and onto my own domain. Welcome to Kitchenculinaire.com
Well, I am leaving for the airport in less than two hours and so I really should be doing stuff like packing my suitcase and cleaning the house and finishing off the laundry… Yet I didn’t want to leave for two weeks without saying goodbye and sending off this year with something sweet and seasonal. Continue reading
So here we are at day 12. I have absolutely enjoyed working with these hors d’oeuvres over the last days and think I may need to make this an annual event here.
We just arrived home from a wonderful pre-Christmas dinner with Glen’s family in Squamish where Glen’s brother Peter and his girlfriend Tanis put on a really wonderful meal. I am, however, now in the middle of a full-on turkey coma and am heading straight to bed so this last post will be a short one. Continue reading
Wow, here we already are at day 11! One more canapé recipe for tomorrow and then… well actually, then I am going to be taking a few weeks off from here. It is not like posting everyday for 12 days was gruelling or anything but it just so happens that I am going with my sweet family to Mexico for Christmas until the end of the year.
My Mom and Dad have a little house by the beach in a very small town and have been spending their winters down there for the past 13 years or so. We spend every second Christmas with them (to make it fair for Glen’s family) and being down there turns the whole Christmas thing into a very low key and relaxing affair. Don’t get me wrong I love having a huge Christmassy holiday here with the tree and the lights and the presents and the cookies and the eggnog and the shopping at the mall (ok maybe not the shopping at the mall part). It is nice, however, to shake it up every second year. Continue reading
