Yes, I said I was not going to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day but! I can still celebrate Irish foods this week. I am part Irish. With spring coming and I love participating in food rituals, I thought what better dish to make for today than Irish Stew? You can find the recipe I used here. […]
In Homage to Spring: Green Goddess Salad
This week I wanted to explore foods for St. Patrick’s Day but then my husband reminded me that it is kind of a Christian day of celebration and there is even a theory that the “snakes” that were banished were actually pagans/Druids, since snakes have not been in Ireland since the ice age. He also […]
Low Fat Kitchen Disasters
Wok Box: Clayton Park
President’s Choice Pad Thai Cooking Sauce
Chicken Pot Pie Sandwiches
Thankfully this cautionary tale has a happy foodie ending but if I had not kept a cool head, well, it would have been a very different story. We begin with Lynn Crawford’s Cheddar Cheese Biscuits. That part of the story is all sunshine and daisies. A beautiful recipe. Here is where it all comes crashing […]
Lynn Crawford’s Cheddar Cheese Biscuits
I took a foodie day yesterday. Even though as you can see from this photograph that it was a rare sunny and beautiful day, I stayed inside and played with food. One of the things I wanted to make were mini chicken pot pie sandwiches using Lynn Crawford’s recipe for Cheddar Cheese Biscuits. They were […]
Baking away my foodie blues
The Kitchen Banshee
Pretty orange bread isn’t it? You would have thought when I opened my breadmaker on Friday I would have patiently waited until the bread had cooled so I could then carefully detached it from the breadmaker. Well I didn’t. In fact, I attacked it. I attacked the hot pan with the steaming loaf in it […]