Recipe: Buttermilk Bean Waffles

November 28, 2011
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I’m doing my part to make beans hip and cool. I even I walked through downtown Toronto clutching a clear plastic bag brimming with the four pounds of brightly coloured lentils, legumes and beans picture above. No one laughed. No one pointed at me. And if I may say so, I think the odd fashionista [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving: How to Carve Poultry

November 24, 2011
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Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! Since I can’t join you in person and help out  with dinner, I thought I’d share a video that could make your holiday meal run a bit more smoothly — or at least save your good table cloth from some unnecessary grease spots. While the turkey roasts, take 3 [...]

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Recipe: Coconut Baked Chicken with Dipping Sauce

November 21, 2011
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The biggest (okay, only) disappointment in meeting Roger Mooking is he is not a Gemini. How can that be? We’re so alike. Like me, Roger once felt “like a mad man caught in two worlds.” It took a long time for him to realize his love of food and music both branch from the common [...]

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Canada Cooks the Books

November 1, 2011
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    I’m abandoning you for the next little while. But it’s for a good cause. I’m stage managing Canada Cooks the Books. It’s a student cooking competition with a twist. Culinary students go onstage with cookbook authors and make a recipe for a Canadian cookbook in hopes of being named Canada’s Best New Student [...]

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Recipe: Spiced Grilled Chicken

October 27, 2011
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You’ve all heard the expression “Dollars to doughnuts.” But in my world the expression should be, “Doughnuts to Morocco.” Those versed in Moroccan cuisine might assume the connection comes from sfenj, the popular Moroccan street food that closely resembles the North American doughnut. You’d get a Brownie point for your knowledge, but you’d be wrong. [...]

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Leadership and Purpose

October 21, 2011
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Will my brushes with greatness never cease? First, my friend Dana is a judge on The Food Network’s Recipe to Riches, then Super Jess included me in her Doughnut Bonanza, and today my husband launches his very own book — Leadership and Purpose: A History of Wilfrid Laurier University. By Andrew M. Thomson. Yes, world, [...]

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Recipe to Riches — Luscious Lemon Pudding and a Review

October 20, 2011
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It’s a cold, raw, rainy morning and I’m breakfasting on Grandma Glo’s Luscious Lemon Pudding, which won last night’s Recipe to Riches challenge. I had hoped to serve it to guests tonight, but I don’t think there will be enough left. I’ll be making a second batch later today as it’s an easy recipe and [...]

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Recipe: Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnuts

October 19, 2011
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May I drop another name this week? How about Jess Thomson? She’s an award-winning food writer, a photographer and a recipe developer who once completed a marathon recipe-writing stint by producing a recipe a day — for a whole year. I wouldn’t be surprised if she flew helicopters or designed subway systems in her spare time. Her [...]

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Recipe to Riches

October 18, 2011
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How much do I like my friend Dana McCauley? I like her enough to bump my weekly Modern Family fix to watch her in action. Dana is one of the judges on the new Food Network show Recipe to Riches. She joins a distintguished panel of judges including Laura Calder, who just happens to be an [...]

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Recipe: Plum & Lavender Jam

October 17, 2011
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I always thought I had a pretty good childhood. Each winter, my father would make a skating rink in the back yard, which we and our friends would use for noisy hours on end. And when we came in bright pink and shivering, Mom defrosted us with mugs full of homemade hot chocolate. I had [...]

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Delicious Food Show Winner

October 12, 2011
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I set ‘em up. You delivered ‘em. Punch lines, that is. Last week I asked you to come up with a great one-liner using the October 5th trivia I provided. The winner gets two tickets to the Delicious Food Show (courtesy Three Farmers Camelina Oil)  in Toronto, and Andrew and I get a few laughs. [...]

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