Bake with abandon!
Spend a dollar. Save a dinner. Not a bad slogan. May 1st my app launched. A month later, I’m celebrating with a sale. Today only, Kitchen Disasters and Fixes is priced at $0.99. Both the iTunes version and the Android version are 2/3 off the regular …
If you’re at home or have a TV recording device (VCR, PVR, DVR, JFK LMONP or whatever) I’m in Kitchener today on CTV’s News at Noon. I’ll be saving the world (or at least South Western Ontario) from senseless cooking disasters. Tune in as I …
Barb Freda is my kind of cook. She has firm opinions about cast iron frying pans, loves to break long-held culinary rules, and spells my name right. What more could you want in a fellow food writer? Not much, except perhaps to be invited along …
This is my French rolling pin. It doesn’t have easy-grip handles. It doesn’t have ball bearings. It isn’t made from cold, heavy marble. It’s just a smooth, tapered piece of hardwood. For years I wondered why anyone would choose this style over the comfy-handled version …
We have our first winner. Joni, who tends to burn things, has won a copy of my new app Kitchen Disasters & Fixes. I’ll be giving away a copy of the app each day this week until Sunday, so if you have an iPhone, iPad …
As luck — and Murphy — would have it, I encountered some serious computer issues right after the maple syrup trek. I couldn’t download photos or work for more than half an hour without the system grinding to a halt. And surfing the web? My …
When I was nine, we moved to a house with two huge maple trees in the side yard. Years before, someone had tapped the trees and left the spiles in the trunk. Intrigued by the metal protruding from the bark, I asked my mother what …
This isn’t the best ice cream photo in the world, but it was perhaps the best ice cream experience I’ve had in a long, long time. And to think, I was prepared to dislike it. Despite my recent revelations regarding misguided food biases, I still haven’t fully …
Despite my passion for chocolate, I have never been a huge Valentine’s Day fan. I try to ignore it, not because I am cynical about love, but because I believe affection, gifts and surprises should be dictated by the heart, not the calendar. Or at …