Eat, Drink & Be Merry

2012-04-24 Delusions of Grandeur and Fancy French Food - The other day, during one of my common delusions of grandeur in which I'm convinced I'm somehow the offspring of Grace Kelly and Martha Stewart, I decided to whip up some fancy french food.  Never one to let an inadequacy in expertise inhibit my ambition, I set about making coq au vin.  Read More~
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2012-03-23 Guilt and a Deepfryer - Our son bought us a deep fryer for Christmas, which was a very nice gift, but let's be honest here - it was really for his dad. Read More~
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2012-01-31  Food Wine and Song II - One of my very favourite pleasures is to sip a glass of red wine (preferably a Valpolicella) and listen to some great music while preparing dinner.  Read More~
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2012-01-02  Guru Voodoo and French Canadian-Style Split Pea Soup - I though this was a pretty cool idea and tried out a bit of guru voodoo of my own; just letting half-formed thoughts bounce around in the wasteland I call my brain to see if any one word would rise the the quagmire and make itself known.  Read more >>
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2011-10-07  Canadian Thanksgiving and a Recipe for Apple Crisp - This weekend is the Canadian Thanksgiving.  Yes, you read that right - Canada does indeed have a Thanksgiving Day and it is exactly like the American holiday - minus the Pilgrims. (FYI - Canada was a French colony back in the early days and although we did have Jesuit Priests, we did not have zealous Puritans.) Read more ~
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2011-08-15  The Bearer of Bad News - And a Really Yummy Recipe for Roasted Corn on the Cob - I bought Chrysanthemums.  Yellow ones. some of my flowerbeds are showing the stress of a hot and dry summer, and I though Chrysanthemums would be just the thing to spruce them up with a bright show of colour. Read more~
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2011-03-16  Food = Love - Today, I want to share with you a simple kind of joy, one of home and hearth and heart - my own family's recipe for home-made bread.  Now, before you run off terrified at the thought of a flour-coated kitchen and mystifying bread-making terms like kneading, benching and degassing, I should add that this fail-safe recipe for Ciabatta is so simple a 6-year-old could make it.  Read more ~
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2011-01-21  Chili and Blues - As my earlier post Food Wine and Song has proven to be one of my more popular posts, I thought I'd give it another try and offer up more great music to savour while cooking.  This time, it's a video of Howlin' Wolf performing the song Smokestack Lightnin' before a British audience in 1964. Read more ~
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2011-01-11  Food, Wine and Song - As the theme of my blog is "Sharing Perks & Pleasures" I feel required to share with you one of my very favourite pleasures: sipping a glass of red wine (preferably a Valpolicella) and listening to some great music while preparing dinner.  Most evenings, my cooking involves simply heating ready-made foods or warming up left-overs - you know - something quick & easy to prepare.  But once or twice a week, I turn on some vintage jazz and go all out.  Read more ~
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2010-12-18  Christmas Treats - With Christmas just days away, I have two special offerings for you - a very yummy (and very sinful) recipe for Hot Buttered Rum, and a music clip of a new song, Snowflakes, by singer/singer-songwriter Jeremy Fisher.  read more ~