Tasty Apple Chicken Turnover Notes to the Cook I developed this recipe because I knew I was going to talk about Joel Salatin’s Farming Workshops on CBC Radio and I thought this would be the perfect way to use Pastured Poultry – one of Salatin’s topics for his workshops. Sunshine Organic Farm and Sunworks Farm […]
MoreThis is funny. And it’s a great ingredient too. It’s mustard; Grey Poupon, in this instance. When I have a great ingredient I am always inspired to cook. In fact that is usually the genesis of all my cooking. Shopping for great ingredients is where it all begins for me. I have enough cooking know-how […]
MoreHere’s my Alberta @ Noon podcast about Honey and Beekeeping in Alberta from today. I’m at the 13.50 mark. Holly and I had a lot of fun talking about honey and Valentine’s and you’ll never guess what? Carl Honoré, author of The Slow Fix:Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better was in the green room […]
MoreWhere are the honey bees It’s almost Valentine’s Day and I love my honey and I love honey. This year I decided to bake my honey a honey-baked treat. And that got me thinking more and more about honey and where it comes from and what I really know about it anyway? I decided to […]
MoreCheck out this CBC Alberta @ Noon podcast where I talked about Sustainable Seafood with host Holly Preston (I’m at the 13 minute mark): http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?clipid=2328725716&position=822330&site=cbc.news.ca Here are the recipes I posted on the CBC Alberta @ Noon website today. Five One-Liner Fish Recipes that will have you hooked 1. For Salmon fillets – Make Asian Zip Salmon […]
MoreI have such a fun job. I own my own company called Calgary Food Tours and I’m a food and travel writer. I get to explore the food of my city, province, country and the world each year and I always meet the most incredible food artisans, chefs and small business owners. I can’t help but […]
MoreThis short blog post is for those of you who’ve graduated from the Pie Crust 101 with my Mom as your Mentor entry I posted yesterday. This post has the “companion video” which illustrates a lot of the techniques that are crucial to turning out a flakey pie crust. You’ll see my Mom, Gerri Robicheau, […]
MoreI come from a long line of great pie makers. This post is all about what that means to me and my efforts to preserve our family’s pie-making prowess with a pie-making lesson with my Mother. The recipe is in this post. A video follows in Pie 201.
MoreEveryone should have a friend like my friend Marianne. I ran into her at the coffee shop and told her I was going home to “do my tomatoes”. She asked if “the job” could wait a day because she’d be able to help if it could. You already know the answer to that question. I won’t trifle […]
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