Year: 2010

Teat Tweets at the  Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

Teat Tweets at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

This is ContrastAmanada. She’s an 8-year old Holstein who isn’t afraid to milk herself and has her own Twitter feed. I struggle with social media, but with the help of University of Waterloo’s Critical Media Lab, a herd of bovines from Buttermine Farms in Brant, 

Recipe and Giveaway: Chipotle Shortbreads

Recipe and Giveaway: Chipotle Shortbreads

Move over Julia Child and Paula Dean. I’m the Butter Queen today. Now that the jack-o’-lanterns have been extinguished and the last of the waxy mini-chocolate bars have been gobbled, we can safely move onto thoughts of holiday baking. While I’m not ready to rummage 

What to do with leftover pastry dough

What to do with leftover pastry dough

  I just can’t bear to throw out leftover pastry scraps. As a child, when my mother made pie, she salvaged every shred of dough and produced a treat I found more tantalizing than the star dessert itself — the Rolly-Polly. She gathered the leftover 

Recipe: Plum and Orange Sorbet

Recipe: Plum and Orange Sorbet

The pears went bad so I called on the plums. The plums started to go so I… reached for the ice cream maker. I could have made preserves, but I had too few plums to make jam worthwhile. The fruit would have slipped from iffy 

Recipe: Plum, Chocolate & Frangipane Pie

Recipe: Plum, Chocolate & Frangipane Pie

Had the pears held up I would likely be writing about broccoli or Swiss chard. Health food fans lament; pie lovers rejoice. On Saturday, with guests arriving and the clock ticking loudly in my ears, I tossed my dessert plans into the garbage along with 

Food Processors – Too Much of a Good Thing?

Food Processors – Too Much of a Good Thing?

I’ve been sitting on this post for a few days, not sure what to say. I had planned a feature-by-handy-feature appliance review, but feel I should issue a PSA instead.  You see, I broke down and bought a food processor a couple of weeks ago. 

Recipe: Caramelized Apple Pancake Syrup

Recipe: Caramelized Apple Pancake Syrup

Don’t get me wrong, I like pancakes. But sometimes the expression “Flat as a pancake,” describes my enthusiasm for this dish. Unadorned, they’re pallid, uneven, and large-pored. This describes my skin without make-up. It’s not something you should be serving guests before noon. Oh, sure 

Recipe: Plum Frangipane Tart

Recipe: Plum Frangipane Tart

Little Jack Horner’s got nothing on me. What’s he got? A corner, a thumb and a nursery rhyme no one understands. Me? I’ve got fresh plums and frangipane. That’s right. You heard me. Frangipane. I know. It sounds like a resort cocktail, but it’s really 

Recipe: Roasted Squash and Pear Soup

Recipe: Roasted Squash and Pear Soup

I missed the last of the season’s peaches on Saturday by THIS much. You can’t see it but I’m holding my thumb and index finger about 4 inches apart. The universal translation for this gesture is one hour of time for each inch of empty