Tag: Techniques

How to adjust pan size in baking

How to adjust pan size in baking

What’s happening to me? The minute I went to photograph this dessert I thought, “Rats! I should have made the cobbler in a cast iron frying pan. It would have looked so much more rustic.” Great. It’s not enough that I’m criticized for being a 

How to make perfect cake

How to make perfect cake

  If you read my 2012 Culinary Bucket List, you’ll see I have a lot of baking to do. In case a from-scratch cake is on your list, I thought I’d start the new year off with some baking tips I learned from Camilla V. 

How to Table Chocolate Ganache for Truffles

How to Table Chocolate Ganache for Truffles

Last week I had the pleasure of taking a truffle and bon bon making course in Toronto with Marissa Scibetta at Bonnie Gordon College of Confectionary Arts. For two glorious evenings I was the proverbial kid in the candy shop, weighing, heating, mixing, spooning and 

Happy Thanksgiving: How to Carve Poultry

Happy Thanksgiving: How to Carve Poultry

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! Since I can’t join you in person and help out  with dinner, I thought I’d share a video that could make your holiday meal run a bit more smoothly — or at least save your good table cloth from 

Orange and Carrot Salad

Orange and Carrot Salad

Winter has returned with a vengeance, Dumping great soggy clumps of slush on our heads. In the face of this penetrating cold, I don’t want hot soup. I don’t want great steaming mounds of comfort food. I want warm temperatures and sunshine. And I want 

How to make decorative chocolate drizzle

How to make decorative chocolate drizzle

During the chocolate demonstration, Derrick made this decorative chocolate drizzle for Emily. As in Emily Richards. I’m not jealous. Really. After all, my name’s too long. And too hard to spell. So demonstrating chocolate script with “Emily” makes sense. I guess. After Derrick showed off 

Recipe: Chocolate Brownies with Chocolate Mousse

Recipe: Chocolate Brownies with Chocolate Mousse

I know that when I see a recipe calling for basically three desserts rolled into one, I skip it in favour of something simpler, like cookies. But if you think about it, pie is two desserts in one. The crust and then the filling. And 

How to Temper Chocolate in a Microwave & a Give Away

How to Temper Chocolate in a Microwave & a Give Away

  This is me at chocolate class. While Elizabeth Baird looks mildly curious, I look like I’m about to have the “full bore lateral panic” my mother so often threatened. From my expression you’d think the macarons had started to dance about like extras in 

Knife Skills – Top 3 Mistakes and 3 Essentials Knives

Knife Skills – Top 3 Mistakes and 3 Essentials Knives

You wouldn’t know from my sleek bob cut, but I’m a rocker. A die-hard rocker, through and through. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not the head-banging, metal-thrashing, ear-destroying kind. I’m the chop ’em, mince ’em, dice ’em kind. I know this because Jeffrey Elliot, coauthor