Fish’n’Chips
Whenever we get a craving for some fresh-fried chip-shop fare we head out to Captain George's
Ever been to a rib-eating contest?
Me neither until the weekend...
A-Z of Canada: E is for Emerge
Appropriating a vividly descriptive verb, robbing it of its meaning and demoting it to a banal noun to save yourself uttering two extra syllables grates on me like fingernails on a blackboard... yes, it's a rant!
“Life is like a box of chocolates…”
Today brought a return to more seasonal temperatures (with a windchill of seventeen below) and a long-awaited package...
The Ribfest Comes to Whitby
A three-day grilling extravaganza - the first ever Whitby Ribfest, organized by the Rotary Club of Whitby Sunrise. Several traveling professional rib-teams were in town to romance us with their ribs and seduce us with their sauce...
Beat the heat with Mango Lassi
My Punjabi in-laws may have been a hot-headed bunch but they knew a thing or two about keeping cool in extreme heat...
Daily Bread – our relationship with roti
When I married into a Pakistani family a wealth of new experiences opened up to me, but by far the most integral and enduring were those concerned with food...
Yummy Mummy
In support of Yummy Mummy Week, 10th - 18th March 2012, in the UK, I'm sharing this picture of cake with you. The instructions said "a cake..." but, hell, who stops at one?
Chocolate heaven…
I am in chocolate heaven right now, HUGE, and I mean HUGE thanks to Lee Newman the driving force behind Stouffville Academy of Music & Dance, the beating heart of the performing arts scene in Stouffville, for picking up some imported Dairymilk from a shady corner store somewhere in the Scarborough area
Sex up your weekend with American-style pancakes
It has always been a weekend tradition in our family to eschew the cereal boxes in favour of something more elaborate. In England I used to make pancakes - the thin, light, Shrove Tuesday type, piling them up on a heated plate to be distributed at the table, liberally coated with lemon-juice and sugar, Nutella, honey, maple syrup or caramelised, spiced fruit. The kids would demolish them at the same speed that we could prepare them!
