I admit to being a collector of cookbooks. It's a no-fail gift for many of my friends too and this season there are a few that are worth putting on your wishlist. Here are just a few great new cookbooks just in time for the holidays... THE GREAT LOBSTER COOKBOOK (Published October 28, … [Read more...]
Jerk Beef Salad With Grilled Peppers
Add a little spice to your next salad with a bit of jerk seasoning on your flank steak. With less than ten ingredients, this salad is a quick and easy way to get your greens (and proteins) in! Ingredients ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil 4 tsp lime juice 2 tsp jerk seasoning 1 tsp soy … [Read more...]
Crispy Tortilla Ancho Chicken Salad
A good salad is a symphony of flavours and textures and Canadian Living: 150 Essential Salads has rounded up the best of the best. This Crispy Tortilla Ancho Chicken Salad has a serious kick! Substitute chili powder for the ancho chili powder for more sensitive palates. Or serve it with a side of … [Read more...]
Chef Peter Minaki and Everything Mediterranean!
The blue sky and white buildings and the big blue sea. That's the image I get when I hear Chef Peter Minaki speak about his motherland. It sounds totally perfect right now, right? This creeping up of winter air has me wishing for warmer weather already! Chef Minaki gave us a taste of the … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day Gift Guide
For the hours of labour, the sleepless years, and the decades of stress, we all know that we should find a way to thank the mothers in our lives on each and every one of the 365 days each year. But for many of us, this Sunday marks as good a day as any to make a more dramatic gesture of thanks with … [Read more...]
Holly Clegg Cookbooks
Holly CleggHolly Clegg, author of the best selling trim&TERRIFIC® cookbook series including a diabetic cookbook with the ADA and Eating Well Through Cancer, has sold almost 1 million copies. Holly has promoted her healthy lifestyle recipes on national shows including Fox & Friends, NBC … [Read more...]
Coffee and Crying and Cookbooks
It was a beautiful weekend - we drove through some leafy country places at one point and the red trees and the golden, mellow autumn light and the farm fields quiet in the fall were all so beautiful that I was speechless with it. But today we woke up and there had been a hard frost and my kids … [Read more...]
My Favorite Cookbook
This weekend was spent in a low-key sort of way - The Girl was sick on Saturday morning, poor chum, but everyone was well enough by the evening to have Grandpa over for supper. We tried the chicken-artichoke casserole that I wrote about earlier last week and it was good! But other than that, I … [Read more...]
Wolves
My friends here in Small Town run the Small Town economic spectrum - some of my friends are small town rich (a nice house on the good street in town, a couple of shopping trips to Toronto each year, a boat and a car that wasn't bought used) and some of my friends are living on almost unimaginably … [Read more...]