The Ultimate Onion Soup
5 lbs mixed onions ( 2 Red, 2 yellow, 1 White and 1 Sweet Vidalia)
handful fresh thyme, leaves picked
8 cloves garlic,  sliced
2 large fresh bay leaves
3 tbsp olive oil plus some for drizzling
3 tbsp butter
6-1/4 cups beef stock
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 baguette
4-6 oz Gruyère cheese grated
1. Melt butter with [...]

Crab Stuffed Mushroom Caps

3 x 120g cans white crab meat (or 12 oz in total)
1 cup cream cheese
1 cup green onions chopped
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
seasoning blend (recipe follows)
30-40 large white button mushrooms, stems removed and reserved for another dish
1 cup bread crumbs
non-stick cooking spray
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Combine crab meat, cream [...]

Crisp-skin high-roast butterflied turkey with sausage dressing: The beauty of this recipe is almost all the work is done before Thanksgiving. The turkey, dressing and gravy are all made the day before.

Planning our Thanksgiving dinner for our Canadian Thanksgiving weekend last week was a lot of fun.
Belle wanted a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, turkey, stuffing, gravy and veggies. I would rather have tried something a little more avant garde so I decided to do something different with the turkey.
Our daughter is vegetarian so along with the usual [...]

Jamaican-spiced Pumpkin Pie (adapted fromFine Cooking Oct/Nov 2009 issue, pg 62)
14oz pure pumpkin pie puree
1.25 cups unsweetened coconut milk (full Fat)
3/4 cups packed light brown sugar
1 tsp ginger
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp fine sea salt
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
4 large free range eggs
2 tbsp Captain Morgan’s Spiced Rum
1. Rack in center of oven at 425F
2. In [...]

You are planning your dinner for your lovely wife (the older two children are out for the evening and Dylan and his friend will want to eat soon), and Dylan says “Daddy, Matthew and I want home made pasta with butter and Parmesan cheese.”
So you start the timer (I think it’s Rachel Ray who says [...]