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Dried Apple Breakfast Bars

February 24, 2010

Winter in Ontario. It either comes in cloudy grey lined with depressing slush or dazzling blue edged with blinding white snow.
But there’s a new colour this season. Red.Very fitting for a Canadian-grown fruit.
These Red Prince apples are a new variety grown just a couple hours away from me — in ski country no less. Here [...]

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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 know [...]

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Ginger Gold Apple and Squash Soup

October 23, 2009

Pastry is fussy, cake requires precise measurement, fish over-cooks in a flash, but soup? Soup is incredibly forgiving.
And it’s the perfect way to handle the abundance of fall. Got too many carrots? Make soup. More cauliflower than you know what do do with? Soup. Your neighbour drops off a squash? Soup.
You get the idea.

I made [...]

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My CTV Appearance

October 15, 2009

As promised, here is the video clip of my recent TV appearance. I’m talking to Kyle Christie (no relation) about two quick and easy apple recipes for the local CTV station and trying not to sever a finger with a brand-new, razor sharp peeler. Talking and removing the skin from an apple in the privacy [...]

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Two Quick and Easy Apple Recipes

October 1, 2009

It’s been quite the week. Over the weekend I co-hosted a 24-hour playwriting contest for the playwright development centre I’m involved with. While my co-host and I ensured the entrants never ran out of coffee or junk food, a dozen writers pounded out scripts on laptops in the Rotunda of Kitchener City Hall — under [...]

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Cheddar Apple Soup

September 4, 2008

I might be a bit slow, but I keep my promises. Just before Christmas, I asked readers for their favourite food combinations, promising a recipe inspired by their pairing. Andrew requested apple and cheddar and has been bugging me for a recipe based on this dynamic duo ever since.
While it’s taken more than eight months, [...]