Poutine: The Russian President or a Great Canadian Dish?
It's official, Poutine is now officially a word. It's just been added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as an actual word. If you're unfamiliar with the term - no worries. It's a Canadianism that while spreading in popularity and versatility, is generally regarded as...
A Vegan Pizza is A Pizza to Love
Flex My Pizza I like to flex. Not my muscles, my diet. I like being an omnivore - eating a real variety of foods. Sure, the health benefits of flexing are great, but the opportunity to eat great food also exists. I admit that when I make and eat vegetarian or vegan...
Vinaigrette: Not just for salads
When I say "vinaigrette", what's the first thing that comes to mind? ...Salad? I thought so. Don't get me wrong, a good vinaigrette can make a salad truly amazing. In my kitchen, gone are the days of bottled "Italian" dressing over iceberg lettuce and bad tomatoes....
The Patty Melt: Between Burger and Sandwich?
Patty Melts for Dinner I have a sandwich guy - women actually. She works in the sandwich shop just around the corner. I like to pop in and have a bit of conversation - you know sandwich chat. Having a sandwich person is like having a fish...
The Perfect Picnic: Ingredients for Picnic Success!
From Cold Chicken to coleslaw, sunscreen to sweaters and of course, don't forget the thermos of Smoothies, planning the perfect picnic can be quite the process! Especially considering a picnic is such a casual affair. But that doesn't mean you can't do it in style! A...
Feature Food Innovator: Darina Kopcok
In early 2009, Darina Kopcok of Gratinée found herself unemployed, wanting to make a career change but unsure about what to do. Her background in creative writing and love of food steered her toward blogging as a way to put her skills to good use. Using her blog as a...
Sweetening the Pot: Honey, Molasses, Sugars, Syrups
I don't know about you, but I like a little sugar in my life. Both of the sweet lovin' kind AND the dessert. There are lots of different ways you can impart sweetness into dishes, all of which have different flavor profiles that can accent and highlight other...
Feature Food Innovator: Sean Timberlake | Punk Domestics
We love when we get to meet someone who has the same culinary goals as us: To inspire people into action and take the leap into their own food projects. Whether that be reinventing something, generating whole new flavours or even just attempting to master something...
The Versatile and Delicious Chicken Breast
The Very Versatile Chicken Breast A very long time ago the great culinarian Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin wrote... "Poultry is for cookery what canvas is for painting, and the cap of Fortunatus for the charlatans. It is served to us boiled, roast, hot or cold, whole...
Pounding Out A Recipe for Pound Cake
It doesn't get much simpler a recipe than that of the infamous pound cake. One pound of each of the four standard ingredients: Flour, butter, sugar and eggs. Weigh it out, mix it up and bake. Straight forward, right? If you can whisk a bowl of ingredients, you can...
