My friend Darlene Kunitz posted a comment on her Facebook page that a “Victorian kitchen, with cook and scullery maid, had great potential to be a jolly place”. Indeed! I’d never tell Michael this, but when I ask him to find me a pot or to get me a few potatoes from the storage cupboard,…
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Cally’s Tea Available at the Muttart
Hot off the Twitter press: ————————————– CulinaMuttart by HighlndsKitchen You can now buy Cally’s tea at the Muttart! The best earl grey tea ever, just in time for x-mas. ————————————– People, this is a Christmas miracle, as I’m nearly out of The Best Earl Grey!
Savoury Chicken Couscous
Savoury chicken couscous. It has couscous! You can pretend you are almost Moroccan. Serve this in a tagine, and people might think you really ARE Moroccan. Wouldn’t you be lucky? They have delicious food. This recipe is healthy (at least I think it is, I’m certain I got this from an Anne Lindsay cookbook, and…
Magic Fish
To the person who did an internet search for: but i love you, he will say in his soft, bewildered way, stirring the spaghetti sauce but not you, staring into the pan as if waiting for something, a magic fish, to rise from it and say: that is always enough, why is that not always…
Tea in Space Space Space (echo)
Hm. As you know, I have been amused more than once by what people Google and end up visiting my blog. Today’s funny is from someone who searched for “earl-grey tea on the space station mir”. Just by chance I mentioned something about Astronauts and Space Station, and I get the hit. Let’s discuss. The…
Green Grapes
While my Mom and her consort, Ed, are cruising in the Mediterranean, not worrying about the price of grapes, I thought I would fill my Mom’s shoes and call you all excitedly, as she would, and point out that green grapes are on special at Safeway for $1.00 a pound. Of course, this could be…
Tomatoes
This is a bowl of cherry tomatoes from Mom’s garden. These tiny red jewels explode with flavor. This truly is the best time of year for fresh locally grown food.
Borscht!
My favourite food time of year is upon us. Our gardens are offering up beets, onions, potatoes, peas, cabbage, carrots, dill, bacon, sour salt and cream. OK fine, maybe Safeway is providing the bacon and cream. Sour salt is a bit more of a challenge. Above you see a bowl of my Mom’s finest borscht….
Pork Ear Drums
Someone ended up at my blog because they Googled, “How to cook pork ear drums”. I do not cook, eat, or even look at pork ear drums. I think you confused Walsh Cooks with Andrew Zimmern, of “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern“, who hangs with people who probably eat things like pork ear drums with…
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