Main courses

Michael Smith’s Apple Roasted Chicken

December 2, 2009

This is another photo I didn’t take. And not because my chicken didn’t turn out beautifully. It did. I just didn’t have the time or patience to do a photo shoot. I give full credit to James Ingram, not only for his camera skills but his super-human will power while photographing this dish. I don’t [...]

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Romanesco

November 19, 2009

Despite looking like something from Deep Space Nine Cardassian cuisine, this spiral-studded vegetable has been growing right here on Earth for a few hundred years. Romanesco, or Roman cauliflower, might look strange, but its taste is very familiar — a gentle cross between broccoli and cauliflower. When I saw it at the Farmers’ Market a [...]

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Maple-Roasted Chicken Breasts

November 17, 2009

This hardly looks like a substitute for chicken wings, but I assure you, if your mouth wants honey-garlic drumettes and your brain balks at deep-frying, this variation on pub grub will keep every body happy — low-fat roasted chicken for your waistline and a tangy-sweet sauce for your mouth. While I stop short of claiming [...]

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Quick Fresh Tomato and Herb Pasta

November 11, 2009

Bet you thought I was done with the fresh tomato recipes for a while. So did I. But I was given some environmentally conscious, on-the-vine hydroponic Ontario tomatoes (say that three times fast!) at the Royal Winter Fair and I just couldn’t bear to toss them in a salad. With some stoic herbs still toughing [...]

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Matar Paneer

October 26, 2009

I got out the good china and fancy napkins for this one. Not that matar paneer is an elaborate dish or extremely challenging. Instead, this recipe is a long, long overdue thank-you to fellow writer and Indian cuisine lover, Lora Shinn. But why am I polishing the silverware and wiping spots off the crystal? First, [...]

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Sag Paneer

October 21, 2009

What are those things? Slivered almonds? Potato chips sprinkled a spinach dip? No. Crispy garlic slices atop a quick-cook spinach curry. See. And it’s so good I ate it two days in a row. Spinach is one of those foods that doesn’t photograph well when cooked. It can look slimy or gray. Or slimy and [...]

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Fried Green Tomato Parmesan

September 29, 2009

The deed is done. I have picked all the tomatoes, uprooted the plants and put the garden to bed. I’d like to think the tomatoes didn’t want to go any more than I wanted to remove them. I had ambitious plans to deal with the garden on Sunday. But it was unseasonably hot and muggy. [...]

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Eggplant and Chicken Puttanesca Stacks — Almost Meatless Virtual Potluck

July 29, 2009

It’s a hamburger? It’s a chicken burger? No, it’s Eggplant Chicken Puttanesca Stacks! This is my contribution to the Almost Meatless Virtual Pot Luck. Authors Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond have somehow managed to organize a group of 30 food bloggers for this affair. Each of us making a different dish from Manning and [...]

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Thai Chicken Kebabs

July 22, 2009

I knew the black raspberry photo session went too well. Having taken a good 40 or so shots, I downloaded the pictures to my computer via my incredibly handy new CF card reader. To do this, I remove the CF memory card from my camera, insert it into the oh-so-portable reader, plug the nifty little [...]

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From the Archives: Stromboli

June 5, 2009

I’m on the road this week and will be dipping into the archives for a few tasty blasts from the past. This posts features a hit recipe by trend expert, cookbook author and cyber-friend Dana McCauley. Italian Week – Stromboli Click here to read original post It’s Italian week and I’m more than a little [...]

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Fennel — My official apology

April 28, 2009

Until recently fennel was a spice I ignored. If I saw it in a recipe, I skipped it. After all, it was usually one of fifteen other spices in a curry. Who’d notice it was missing? But this past week I came across a couple of recipes where fennel was the star. Omit it and [...]

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