Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tomato Recipe to Come…

I have been out enjoying the sunshine and therefore neglecting the blogging part of my life. I will be back tomorrow (or Wednesday at the very latest) with a recipe that uses the very ripest summer tomatoes that are just coming into season. I have been making (and eating) this dish a lot over the last couple of weeks and it comes with a myriad of variations. Just tweaking the ingredient list and getting the camera ready to take a few photos. But, for now, I’m heading back out to weed the garden in the cooler evening air.

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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Yogurt and Vanilla Panna Cotta

Last week my kitchen was turned into a make-shift photography studio while I helped out on a very interesting and certainly eye opening project.

Myshsael, a local photographer, hired me to assist her with some cooking/baking for a gluten free project she is working on. It is a very personal project for Myshsael as she suffers from Celiac Disease, which is a digestive disease wherein the body is unable to tolerate gluten. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley and can lurk in many prepackaged foods and even ingredients that you might not expect.

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Saturday Morning Farmer’s Market

 

Just a few words today. I will have a lovely, simple dessert recipe to share tomorrow that came out of a interesting project that I worked on all last week. But, for today some images of all of the things I bought from the Trout Lake Farmer’s Market this morning. My friend, Sarolta and I walked our dogs,  Macchi and Mabel, to the park and then took turns wandering through the market and seeking out the best of the season. Such an inspiring time of the year ingredient-wise and I always feel so happy toting home a bag filled with my delicious finds.

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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Morgan’s Grilled Spot Prawns

I am just starting to get things packed up and organized as we need to leave the island tomorrow morning. This is the part that always makes me feel a bit sad, the washing of the sheets, going through the fridge, packing away all of the food into bins to keep any critters at bay during our absence.  But it must be done. Glen goes back to work on Monday after a 2 month hiatus and I have some commitments in the city over the next few weeks so it will be back to weekends only up here for the rest of the month. Continue reading →

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Away at the Cabin and a Seafood Salad…

It seems like the last few weeks/months/years have been all about moving fast. Racing from place to place, commitment to commitment, deadline to deadline. I don’t even have a regular 9 to 5, full time job and yet constraints on my time seem endless. Everyone always says that time seems to speed up once you have children and even though I should be used to this by now, (Max will be 9! this August) I still find myself amazed at how time flies. How I sometimes struggle to keep up. Continue reading →

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

A Niçoise Salad and Joie Rosé for Summer

I have been back from Paris for a few days now but have been so busy spending time with my sweet family, fighting the jet lag and editing my photos of the trip (shown in chronological order on my Flickr site – all 664 of them!) that I have not had a chance to post.

The trip was amazing. We walked for miles everyday and saw all the famous sites, visited galleries, ate some great meals, celebrated my parent’s 48th wedding anniversary, laughed, talked, got lost, conquered the metro and tasted macaroons for the very first time. We discovered that my Mom has a keen sense of where to find the best bakeries and that she can survive on sweets alone (a vegetable or fruit barely touched the woman’s lips), that my Dad prefers the Musée d’Orsay over the Louvre and gets tired of constantly having his picture taken, that my sister is a very good navigator but will sometimes choose to take the long route and that I can’t read a map to save my life. We made some very good, sweet, funny memories and did not have a single fight! Next year Barcelona! Continue reading →

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Parisian Tartines

Guess where I am going? The above photo is supposed to be the big hint. It is a near replica of the dust jacket of one of my all-time favourite cookbooks,  The Best of Gourmet 2002: Featuring the Flavors of Paris.

Yep, I am going to Paris. Today in fact. The flight leaves at 12:20 pm and so by about midnight tonight we should arrive at Charles De Gaulle and make our way to our little hotel near the Sacre Coeur. I am going with my sister, Lisa and my Mom and Dad. I don’t think that we have been on a family vacation, just the four of us, since I was about 14 years old. Wish us luck. Continue reading →

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Grilled Pork Skewers with Pine Nut, Currant and Scallion Couscous

I’ve been thinking a lot about a blog post written by Michael Ruhlman back in January of this year. It was entitled America: Too Stupid To Cook. Even though it was written almost six months ago it is still generating a heap of passionate debate.

The premise is that we, as a culture, have been convinced that “cooking is so hard that we need other people to do it for us.” That we feel that it takes too long and is too much of an effort to prepare a meal for our family. That 30 minutes is the outside edge of time that should be allocated to preparing dinner. It is about how we need to change this. Continue reading →

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