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April 24, 2013 Tags: food, photography, random, seasons
Category: Food Mood, Just Thinking 12 Comments 
April 25, 2013 – Kirk came home with two boxes of Girl Guide Cookies. I know I love him, but I may also hate him. These darned cookies are my food weakness. I could devour an entire box in no time flat if given the opportunity. It takes incredible willpower for me to leave them alone.
Which do you prefer, chocolate or vanilla?
December 27, 2012 Tags: 366, Christmas, food, memories, photography, postaday
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2012 5 Comments
December 27, 2012 – These are, hands down, my favourite cookies in the world. They are Molasses Sugar Cookies, and I only ever make them at Christmas. The recipe came to Vancouver with me when I left home, my Mom made them every year at Christmas and they have the most heavenly, warm, heady, Christmas spiciness. Cloves, cinnamon, ginger, molasses…everything that screams winter cookie.
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1 ½ cups shortening
4 cups flour
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
4 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup table molasses
1 teaspoon ginger
1 tsp cloves
1 teaspoon cinnamon…
January 3, 2012 Tags: 366, food, photography, postaday
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2012 10 Comments
Jan 3, 2012 – Quick shot today. I was out on the road all day and running like mad to get home and gt a few things done before I have to head out and teach a class that I’d forgotten started tonight.
A yummy keylime bar for you all.
Keylime Squares
Ingredients:
Crust
1-1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
3 Tbsp butter, melted
Filling
3 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp cornstarch
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 large egg
grated zest of 1 lime
1/2 cup fresh lime juice
1. Mix together crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, an butter, …
November 27, 2011 Tags: food
Category: Food Mood No Comments
It’s “Soup Sunday” again, and my inspiration came from someone else’s (Afton’s) recently posted soup recipe. We had a pretty empty cupboard so a trip to Granville Island was in order.
It goes something like this:
olive oil
6 russet potatoes
3 heads of garlic
2 or 3 large leeks
8 cups chicken stock
2 really good quality black forest ham steaks, chopped into half-inch cubes
6 slices double smoked bacon
1 cup heavy cream
Fresh ground black pepper
Garnish:
Grated extra aged cheddar cheese
Chopped chives
Sour cream
Peel four of the potatoes, leave two with peels intact. Chop …
November 15, 2011 Tags: 365, food
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2011 3 Comments
I’m not much of a breakfast person, I’ve been trying harder lately. Kirk on the other hand, is definitely a breakfast person, and he loves cereal. I started making granola shortly after I started making yogurt regularly, they sort of go hand in hand. I have a basic recipe that I start from and add variations depending on what’s currently in the granola ingredient jars.
It goes something like this:
6 cups old fashioned large flake rolled oats
~1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, pecans, almonds, or some combination of these or others)
pinch cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup honey…
November 1, 2011 Tags: 365, food, photography
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2011 8 Comments
305/365 (Nov 1, 2011) – Gads I love this stuff. Takes a bit of work but every mouthful is worth the effort! As the weather gets colder and the days get darker I usually bring “Soup Sundays” back. This was lunch today, leftover from Sunday’s big pot, and another reason I love making soup – lunches for a few days! Very welcome after one cold ride, and prior to another.
Curried Butternut Squash Soup
Start with a medium sized squash, cut it in half and scrape out the seeds. Place it cut side down onto an oiled baking sheet and …
October 10, 2011 Tags: 365, food, photography
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2011 5 Comments
283/365 (Oct 10, 2011) – Ahhhh Thanksgiving….it’s the one holiday that really is so much about food. Comfort food. Turkey (or ham, or goose), root vegetables, pumpkin pie. Or, in our case a twist on the traditional – pumpkin cheesecake instead.
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Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake (sort of a combination of a couple of different recipes)
Crust:
2/3 cup flour
3 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons cold butter, in bits
Buzz that in a food processor until blended and then press gently into the bottom of a 7 inch springform pan and bake at 350F for about 20 minutes. Cool completely before …
May 3, 2011 Tags: 365, Daily Shoot, food, photography
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2011 5 Comments
123/365 (April 3, 2011) – Had a craving for something sweet last night.
February 22, 2011 Tags: 365, Daily Shoot, food, photography
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2011 2 Comments
53/365 (February 22, 2011) – This is a dangerous machine. It makes a mean cappuccino, a fabulous latte, and a great espresso. All at the push of a button. I had more or less given up coffee…this brought me back to the Dark Side.
June 3, 2010 Tags: 365, food, photography
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2010 4 Comments
154/365 (June 3, 2010) – Do you know what the best part of this photo is? (Besides the fact that I get to eat what’s in it)
This banana bread is baked in my grandmother’s bread tins. Probably about 75 years old, and still going strong in my kitchen.
Now that’s getting back to basics! No strange chemicals coating these babies….just old tin that rusts if it isn’t dried well.
I have many recipes for banana bread, but this one is my current favourite. This is a modification of a modified recipe that I found in a Harrowsmith Baking Book.…
March 11, 2010 Tags: 365, food, photography
Category: Food Mood, Photo a Day - 2010 5 Comments
70/365 (March 11, 2010) – Today is cold, rainy, and generally crappy outside. On days like this I like nothing better than a warm cup of tea and some warming comfort food. So I’m thinking Indian curry for dinner….. or maybe a yummy Mulligatawny soup… oh yes… that’s it, the best of both worlds, soup AND curry!
I have a few recipes that I like. The one in the Joy of Cooking is particularly yummy, but this one is my current favourite. It’s a modification from Curry by Jody Vassallo
November 28, 2009 Tags: food
Category: Food Mood, Just Thinking 10 Comments
Oh wow. Totally ignore those pumpkin bars I wrote about a few days ago. I mean, they are OK…. but this, this is amazing. Pumpkin Gingerbread. It’s a quickbread loaf and it is totally scrumptious. You don’t even need butter on it, at least not when it is freshly cooled.
So if you have a can of pumpkin in the cupboard and don’t feel like making a pie…try this, if you don’t have a can of pumpkin….go buy one!!
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Spiced Pumpkin Gingerbread
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
¾ cup wheat germ
1 teaspoon ground ginger…
OK, three cans of pumpkin and three cans of evaporated milk from the depths of the cupboard. Plus a can of pumpkin pie filling (stupid mistake at the grocery store) and another tiny can of evaporated milk. And then there are those three cans of condensed milk to deal with too.
One thing at a time though. First up is a recipe I found online. Pumpkin Squares!
Here goes!
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Pumpkin Squares
Crust
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ cup quick-cooking oats
½ cup packed brown sugar
½ cup butter, softened
Filling
1 can (15 oz.) canned pumpkin
1 can …
November 23, 2009 Tags: food
Category: Food Mood, Just Thinking 3 Comments
Do you ever look at your cupboards and realize that, for the most part, you live out of the first few inches? It gets scary to dig deeper because you never know what you will find. Long forgotten ingredients for something you thought you’d make, then forgot about, then lost the recipe for…
I knew I had two big cans of white beans back there somewhere, for a turkey chili recipe…that was in a book…. I realized I tossed recently. So I dug around on epicurious and came up with a recipe that I modified slightly (really, cooking is all …
October 29, 2009 Tags: fish, food
Category: Food Mood, Just Thinking 1 Comment
Ever had one of those days when you wished you hadn’t picked up the phone? I just did. I received some bad news, news I’d been expecting for about 6 months, but hoped wouldn’t come. There is a reason I call myself an optimistic pessimist. I hope for the best, but I always expect the worst, and over the past five years…well, it’s hard not to be pessimistic. Sometimes I wish I could just turn the clock back and start over.
So when you’ve had an ultra shitty day and end up deciding you don’t want to leave home because …
October 27, 2009 Tags: food
Category: Food Mood, Just Thinking 4 Comments
I tried another batch of muffins today and screwed up when i was reading my scribbles and revisions…and in doing so, I think I actually nailed them!
I had changed my recipe to half buttermilk and half sour cream…but I messed up and added too much buttermilk… so then I just tossed in a couple more tablespoons of flour to sop it up…and they worked perfectly!
Moist, chewy, fairly dense, mild tasting…. yes, I think I finally have my cottage cheese muffin recipe perfected at long last.
Cottage Cheese Muffins
3/4 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup sour …
After a few more tries and some resounding failures I’ve come back a few steps and tried again. I’ve added a bit of sour cream this time to try and find that “tang”. I also bought a few more muffins from the bakery since it had been some time since I’ve had a comparison.
After nibbling away at one on the drive home and analysing bits of them I am certain that there is shredded cheddar cheese in them because I could see little orange bits in the dough. So here’s one small thing, we don’t buy orange cheddar, only …
Darn, I thought I had it. I thought that dry curd cottage cheese might be the missing ingredient. And after they cooled down they were great. Soft nuggets of cottage cheese. They just needed a bit more flour to thicken them up and I thought I was there.
Unfortunately, after they sat for a day, those moist little nuggets turned into hard little nobs of dry cottage cheese.
So, dry curd cottage cheese is not the magic ingredient. And now I have half a container of dry curd cottage cheese in the fridge. Not sure what to do with that!…
OK, round five in the muffin challenge. I actually got a lot closer this time. I tried baking them in a popover pan instead of a muffin time to get the shape that they have at Solly’s. When they came out of the oven I wasn’t happy because they seemed too light and airy. Oddly though, I covered them and didn’t try one until the next day. By that time they had somehow “densed up” a bit and were pretty close to what I am after.
What still seems to be missing though, is the nuggets of cottage cheese that …
September 3, 2009 Tags: food
Category: Food Mood, Just Thinking 1 Comment
Last batch were closer, but the lemon was too much compared to the bakery ones. They were darn good though and I’d highly recommend them! That last batch disappeared pretty quick!
My aunt visited and applied her Cook’s Extraordinaire tastebuds to them and declared lots of fat in there and definitely sugar.
So, next attempt!
3/4 cottage cheese
1/2 cup plain yogurt (I used my homemade stuff)
4 Tbsp melted butter
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1 Tbsp parmesan cheese, grated
~ 2-3 Tbsp grated aged cheddar cheese
1 3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
2 Tbsp sugar…
