Do you endlessly search for cooking inspiration in every nook and cranny? My house is littered with clippings of saved recipes, patiently awaiting their time, and now is the time for these two. Thank Lina Caschetto for her collaboration with chef Isabella “Bella” Lin for this Taiwanese Cocktail Sauce, aka Taiwanese Five Flavour Sauce. I’ve appropriated their Taiwanese Cocktail Sauce to grace chef Michael Smith’s phenomenal…
Hearts Of Palm Spinach Nachos – Creative Delight!
What could be better than a wonderful spinach dip? Two wonderful spinach dips! Maybe someone you care about doesn’t love curry. Maybe that’ll keep you from making Curried Spinach even though you long to sample it again and again. Hearts of Palm Spinach Nachos is rather far from my #2 new year resolution, but hey,…
Spinach Feta Dip – Happy Cinco de Mayo 2017!
Every time I’m late for an annual event, I tell myself that I’m 364 days early to begin celebrating for the following year. And then I realize — Why limit celebrations to just one day? Why not celebrate Cinco de Mayo every day? Thanks to Que Pasa organic chips and salsa, you could be the lucky winner…
Wild Mushroom Appetizer – Culinary Arts
Marianne McEwen is lovely! She came all the way from Magog to Montreal’s Appetite for Books to introduce us diehard cookbook fans to Culinary Art, her elegant new self-published cookbook. Her photos show off normal foods in an extraordinary light, rising from below and illuminating their beauty. I found several easy tempting recipes as I scanned the book for an appetizer to bring…
Lemon Garlic Dressing
Efficient. Spontaneous. Productive. Those are the adjectives that I picked out of a bowl at the back of my Shri Yoga studio this morning. The adjective cards predict what kind of day to expect. So far, I’d say the bowl speaks the truth. One way to be productive, is to make a simple, versatile dressing. I used…
Shrimp DeJonghe – Buttery Garlicky Goodness
You’ve all seen the movie “Julie and Julia”, a wonderful film starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child. Now, you’ve got to read the book by Julie Powell. It starts out terribly with the worst writing you can imagine, then it hits its stride and knocks it out of the park. You know how the book is always better than the movie?…