I grew up with breakfast the Asian way - savory rather than sweet - and I still prefer a savory breakfast these days. If it’s in soup, all the better. This morning, I decided to indulge, and made up a pot of jumbo leek and shrimp wontons. We buy these frozen at the local Chinese […]

The top three food-related books on my TBR pile have been calling to me all week. Unlike the food books I’ve been reading lately, these aren’t cookbooks but food writing, pure and simple - perfect for sitting down on a cool fall night with a cup of hot tea or better yet, hot chocolate with […]

This is part 3 (and the conclusion!) of “Thanksgiving in Pictures”. On Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada last weekend, we celebrated with a Thanksgiving menu taken from recipes in the November 2008 issue of Bon Appetit:

Salted Roast Turkey with Herbs and Shallots with Dijon Gravy and Wild Mushroom and Spinach Stuffing
Glazed Pearl Onions in Port […]

On Sunday of the recent Thanksgiving weekend, we went to my sister’s place in Toronto for a “family” Thanksgiving. Dawn lives in a gorgeous loft-style apartment, and luckily is great friends with her neighbours, whose oven and kitchen she used, in addition to her own, to make a fabulous Thanksgiving meal! My cousin Casey was […]

It’s taken me a while to sort through all the pictures we took over Thanksgiving weekend - this year, Thanksgiving was truly a three-day event for us: Ward did a ton of prep work on Saturday, we headed over to my sister’s on Sunday for a family Thanksgiving with her family, my cousin, my uncle […]

I admit it…I’m a knife snob. I didn’t start out that way but I’ve been converted over time. You see having a really good set of cooking knives is about so much more than just being able to say you have new knives. A truly good set of knives saves you time, is kinder to […]