Bake with abandon!
While gadget week is behind me, my post on savory garlic popcorn needs some further attention. To clarify, three cloves of garlic produce a mild topping. If you don’t mind being socially unacceptable, crank the volume to 10 and have mints on hand. However, if …
Does the model on the cover of this month’s Guelph Life look a tad familiar? Well, she should. C’est moi! Even though this is a regional lifestyle magazine, I’ve been humming Dr. Hook’s “On The Cover of the Rolling Stone” all day. Yes, it dates …
Silly me. I should have photographed the cake before placing it on the table in front of the ravening horde (aka my family). Tired of snow and yearning for old-fashioned comfort, I whipped up a brown sugar cake straight out of grandma’s kitchen. Dark brown …
In a classic episode of WKRP, Les Nessman announces the city is about to be hit by a giant lizzard. The “b” on the teletype machine wasn’t working. After last night’s deluge, we’d take Jurassic Park reptiles over snow fall like this any day. To …
According to the weather reports, a “menacing storm” is moving in this weekend. Even though there’s no room to put it, Southern Ontario can welcome another foot of snow. To cope with the impending downfall, I’m adopting the maybe-it-will-go-away school of thought. I’m going to …
Free to a good home: One sad-sack hot air popcorn maker. In keeping with the previous surprises I’ve encountered during Gadget Week, my planned review of a garlic mandolin will have to wait. Instead of presenting you with a tasty recipe for garlic and rosemary …
What started out as Gadget Week is morphing into an experiment I’m dubbing Expand Charmian’s Palate. Yesterday I discovered that pears poached in black currant wine is greater than the sum of its parts. And today? I set aside my textural objections and made Lemon …
This week, As the Barrel Turns went viral. In more ways than one. “It’s never a good sign when they keep telling you you’re being a good sport,” the red-nosed Dr Andrew Thomson wheezed. In common with half of Southern Ontario, Thomson succumbed to a …
Quick. What is this? Chocolate muffin with sugar sprinkles? An extreme close up of a cocoa rolled truffle? Nope. Guess again. It’s steak. Earlier in the week, The National Post ran an article about adding coffee to a dry rub. Not only did the recipe …