Braised Short Rib Grilled Cheese with Caramelized Onions
I feel like I’ve been slingshot (can that be used as a verb?) straight into mid January, and I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a grilled cheese sandwich. I’ve decided that if I’m going to eat...
View ArticleHomemade Ricotta
I’m fairly certain that in some previous life I grew up on a farm, with chickens and dairy cows and those wide-trunked, top-heavy trees that flop over fences and into creeks. Or perhaps I just watched...
View ArticleGoat Cheese with Garlicky Herbed Olive Oil
Blooms on apple trees are like ripening avocados – notreadyyetnotreadyyetnotreadyyet – BLOOM! One day they explode from their buds, and then the next day the wind picks up or the rain washes all those...
View ArticleButter Chicken Tarts with Gouda
(I’ve been a tad obsessed with vintage cookbooks lately – especially those from the fifties and sixties, with their overuse of food colouring and vivid food photos. Although there are no frankfurters...
View ArticleBrie Pop Tarts
How about a little pastry and cheese on a stick to ring out the year properly? These babies were inspired by a need to use up the puff pastry in my freezer and cheese in my fridge, as well as the...
View ArticleCurried Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Paneer
As per my previous post, I’m currently enamoured with all things curried – and with using my masala dabba, which when I hold in my hand and dip into by the stove makes me feel like part cook, part...
View ArticleGarlic Cheese Buns
On Friday, with so much zucchini/tomatoes/onions/spinach/chard in my kitchen I didn’t know where to put it all, I called an emergency after-work minestrone party. I made two batches: one in a giant...
View ArticleClassic Cheese Fondue
My social media streams are full of skiing and skating, making me want to follow suit and hit the trails/rinks/slopes, but equally wanting to chip away at that pile I felt sure I’d tackle in comfort...
View ArticleHomemade Labneh
I’m a sucker for instant gratification – or at least big rewards for minimum effort – but mostly that feeling like I’ve actually accomplished something that didn’t take any time at all, like when you...
View ArticleHy’s Cheese Toast
Forever ago, when I was at art college, the school cafeteria sold thick slabs of cheese toast for a dollar. It was about all I could afford, which was convenient because it was also what I loved the...
View ArticleAsparagus Pizza
Spring has been crazy early this year, and now so is asparagus – by like a month. They started picking mid-April at Edgar Farms by Innisfail, and the norm is around the middle of May. It’s a short...
View ArticleNettie’s Perogies
It’s okay, I think, to adopt other families’ culinary traditions when it suits you. Having not grown up with a Ukrainian baba, and having married into a Ukrainian family that ironically doesn’t cook...
View ArticleBraised Cherry Cheesecake in a Jar
BC cherries are in! Which means a) summer is here, and b) we must celebrate this fact by eating as many cherries as possible. I know food in jars is so three years ago – unless you’re my sister, who...
View ArticleCaramelized Onion, Artichoke + Jarlsberg Dip
‘Tis the season for garden parties. My neighbour-friend has one of the very best back yards in the world – small and brimming with herbs, food and flowers, a fence made of repurposed pallets, hung with...
View ArticleBlog Flog: Building a Cheese Board + Easy Fondue
Confession: I do not own a fondue pot. And yet there are few things better than a bunch of friends sharing a pot of gooey cheese. When people ask about my favourite food, my answer – not that I could...
View ArticleBlog Flog: Bacon Double Cheese Peroghies
Peroghies are a prairie staple – these little dumplings have been feeding families affordably for generations, and are the epitome of comfort food around our house. W recently pointed out that most...
View ArticleBlog Flog: Patty Melts
I partnered with Jarlsberg to bring you this cheesy goodness. I’ve seen mention of patty melts here and there, and each time I see one I wonder why it is not number one on my all-time favourite foods...
View ArticleRoasted Tomato Soup with Open-faced Grilled Cheese
Even though buds are popping out in the back yard as we speak, I’m in a comfort food state of mind – and really, for many of us grilled cheese and tomato soup are about as nostalgic as it gets. I got...
View ArticleBlog Flog: A Cheese Potluck
One afternoon a few weeks ago, a few friends and I strategized a last-minute get-together by text: Friday night? Allison’s house. Everyone brings a bottle of wine and something for the cheese board....
View ArticleBlog Flog: Celebrating The Holidays Right with Castello Cheese
If you look to social media, you’ll see that food boards are all the rage these days. With the Holiday party season coming up, it’s good to know you don’t have to cook a whole extravagant meal if you...
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