Winter

Sticky Toffee Pudding has always been one of my favourite desserts and especially once the weather gets cooler. For the uninitiated, it’s not a pudding in the “put it in a bowl and eat it with a spoon” way. It’s a pudding in the British style – a cake. Classic Sticky Toffee Pudding features dates, [...]

If you’re looking for a soup that you can get on the table fast, this is it! It is also a great and tasty way to up your vegetable count for the day. With just a couple of chicken breasts and some chicken stock, you can whip up this soup in about 30 minutes. Add [...]

I have only recently discovered Cara Cara oranges. They are in (Canadian) grocery stores right now (early February) but they are easy to miss with the wide variety of citrus on the shelves right now. If you seek them out though, you will be wonderfully rewarded. Cara Cara oranges are sweet, low in acid and [...]

It always amuses me to be able to enjoy local, Ontario carrots … in February, when most of Ontario is under feet of snow. And I suspect if I looked hard enough, I might even be able to find an Ontario pumpkin somewhere as well. (I didn’t look hard this time, so resorted to canned [...]

I love clementines – so sweet, easy to peel and seedless! What’s not to love? I always look forward to this time of year when they are plentiul. When I have an abundance, I love to make up a small batch of this clementine marmalade. I also love this recipe for marmalade, which adapts to [...]

I have been making this dish for several years. It started as a basic cider braised pork recipe from Gourmet magazine but with my own additions over the years, developed into a dish that just tastes like Fall and the holiday season. This isn’t one of those perfectly sliced pork/sauce drizzled over the top dishes. [...]

Martha and I go way back. Years and years, actually. And somewhere along the way, we had a bit of a falling out. As I recall, I had tried several Martha recipes that just didn’t work out. Not even that I didn’t care for them. They just didn’t work as written. We parted ways around [...]