Moroccan

Recipe: Moroccan Lemon Chicken

Recipe: Moroccan Lemon Chicken

May 9, 2012

Some days you just have to take a deep breath and say, “Well, it tasted great!” The day I broken open my stash of  preserved lemons was one of those days. With bright yellow lemons and deep green mint, I thought I could turn out a dish as pretty as the photo in the book [...]

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Orange and Carrot Salad

March 10, 2011

Winter has returned with a vengeance, Dumping great soggy clumps of slush on our heads. In the face of this penetrating cold, I don’t want hot soup. I don’t want great steaming mounds of comfort food. I want warm temperatures and sunshine. And I want it now. So I’m pretending they dishwater gray sky is [...]

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Recipe: Moroccan Roast Chicken

February 21, 2011

Yesterday was Family Day here in Ontario when everyone gets the day off to hang out with their loved ones. With yet another forecast snow storm threatening to turn what should be a laid back provincial holiday into a muscle-abusing Shovel Day, I decided to have family time Sunday night instead. Being the ever-considerate charm [...]

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Recipe: Smoky Tomato Chickpea Soup

October 8, 2010

One of the perks for working with Cuisine Canada on the upcoming Canadian Culinary Book Awards is that you actually look forward to the planning sessions since they tend to be potluck. One of the drawbacks? Go to enough meetings and you’ll get fat. A potluck with serious foodies often means serious calories. Fortunately, there [...]

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Vegetable Tagine

January 28, 2010

In the comment section recently, Leslie asked about eggplant. She’s tired of it drowned in tomato sauce or swimming in oil.  Joe Girard of Rouxbe Online Cooking School provided some great answers, but even his professional advice didn’t get me off the hook. I’d promised Leslie I’d look into other ways of cooking it, and [...]

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