Summer

No-Churn Double Raspberry Ice Cream Have some ice cream. It'll make you feel better. If you're hot, it will cool you down. If you're hungry, it will fill you up. If you're tired, it will fuel you. Ice cream is one of my favourite summer treats, and...

No-Churn pralines and Cream When I was a kid, store-bought ice cream was plain and simple. Chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla. You might get a carton of Neapolitan on a special occasion or some Spumoni at Christmas. But if you wanted fancy, you had to get creative...

No-Churn Chocolate Crackle Ice Cream In a classic case of "Do as I say, not as I do" I decided to place the plastic wrap OVER the container of ice cream, not directly on the surface. I know better, but I did it anyway. I wanted...

No-Churn Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream When I was a child, ice cream was a black-or-white choice. Vanilla or chocolate. Those were the two standard grocery store options. If we were lucky, Mom would bring home a carton of Neapolitan with its impressive layers of chocolate, vanilla...

Orange Dream no-Churn ICe Cream Well, that took longer than expected. I'd meant to take a week off to clean up some of the maintenance issues on the blog and -- gulp -- do my taxes. (Thanks to the pandemic, the Canadian tax deadline has been...

Burger Season Begins Early this year Since most of us are self-isolating and itching for fresh air, we're firing up the grill a bit earlier this year. A version of the information below originally appeared in my column for Grand Magazine. Even if you don't have...

I often have a box of phyllo in the fridge - “just in case” I “need” to make appetizers. When I do,  I fold them into triangles, roll them into logs, and even stuff them into muffin tins for little “bundles”. When I’m too lazy to...

Summer is racing for the finish line. Before it gets there, it has some hurdles to clear. One of those hurdles is zucchini. Sure, an individual zucchini isn’t much of a challenge, but what about the bushelful your neighbour left on the back porch ?...

So, Eric Idle came to dinner and was seated beside me. We were going to entertain the other guests with a ripping rendition of The Dead Parrot skit. Only I was so busy thinking up clever tweets I forgot my lines. So I went upstairs to...

When I was very little, I thought my mother knew everything. Absolutely everything. If I had a question, she had an answer. If I had a problem, she had a solution. She cured my near-fatal bout of the mumps with teeny-tiny vanilla cupcakes. She could...