Bake with abandon!
I could really use a laugh. Not only does my butcher retire at the end of this week (sniff), the little community craft store next to it — the one where I bought my groovy reusable coffee sleeves — has closed shop. The sudden demise …
Local food is important to me. Remember my conniption fit over Chinese garlic? Or the tears when my butcher announced his retirement? While I’m not a die-hard locavore who shuns coffee and gives friends grief over buying lychees, I think it’s criminal to import zucchini …
Yesterday while your comments were rolling in suggesting ways around my gardening dilemma, my next door neighbour gave me a flat of tomato seedlings. I now have 50 plants sitting on my kitchen floor staring at me — daring me — to plant them. The …
I overheard this snippet of conversation in the independent Italian green grocer’s near my house: Customer: Where’s your margarine? Manager: We don’t sell margarine, only butter. I love this place. Photos © islandspice. Published under a Creative Commons License.
Five spices, 750 ml of scotch, 30 days and one poorly-fitted lid. Do you see where this is going? Our Scotch Marmalade experiment was a success. Or a failure. It all depends on how you look at it. Either way, Diva on a Diet was …
Solve one problem. Create another. Let’s say I make a grocery list, eat a full meal and then shop at break-neck speed, never straying from the items on my list. When I get home with my planned purchases — and only my planned purchases — …
Vanessa McMackin is one happy cookbook collector. She’s getting six Whitecap Books titles and a phone call from Bal Arneson, author of Everyday Indian. Of course, I’ll also be calling her to select the final three books in her prize package. I’m not sure how …