Apple Chicken Burgers with Basil and Gouda

The other day, we were having breakfast at a local restaurant, when a menu card caught our eye. Among the various offerings was a chicken burger with roasted apple slices. ...

How to Make Silk Flower Pomanders

2.5 years ago, I posted my first wedding floral design tutorial, planning to make it a regular thing. With floral design being one of my earlier ADD career incarnations, I’ve ...

How to Carve a Watermelon Bowl… CANADIAN Style!

Inspiration really can come from the weirdest of places. Remember the story of how my French Martini Upside Down Cake was conceived? Jann Arden, an auto-correct Fail, French Canadian culture, ...

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Singapore Mai Fun

Mei Fun? Mei Fan? Mai fan? Seems like there are a million ...

Tiger Tail Ice Cream Recipe (AKA Tiger-Tiger Ice Cream Recipe)

“Favorite ice cream flavors” was recently the topic of discussion among a ...

Rum Runners – Cocktail Recipe

I’ve been meaning to post today’s recipe for a long time … ...

How to Make Proper Queso Dip… (AKA: Velveeta is Not Fit For Human Consumption!)

I remember the first time I ate “American” cheese. I was visiting ...

Low Country Boil, aka Frogmore Stew

Everyone’s heard variations on the saying “The cobbler’s kids go barefoot”, and ...

Pina Colada Bundt Cake

This was my first foray into the world of boozy baking, combining ...

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MasterChef Recap: Season 4, Episodes 7 & 8

Having watched these two episodes last week, I’m not super in the mood to watch them again to recap them, so let’s start with a “too long, did not read” version: The entire two hours were spent with two apparent goals: getting rid of ONE contestant, and fawning all over Luca. I’m way too ADD [...]

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How to Make Homemade Marshmallow Cones

Recently, I’ve had my mind on Canadian foods. Something about homesickness really makes you crave pretty much everything you can’t find locally! Now, I have no idea if today’s recipe is actually Canadian or not, but it’s an example of “Oh, you can’t get them here? Well then, I MUST HAVE SOME NOW!”. I don’t [...]

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The Canadian Food Experience Project – Memories

The other day I was browsing through a few of Twitter’s recommendations for people to follow, and I came upon a fellow Canadian Foodblogger, @Redawna . I clicked through to her blog Nutmeg Disrupted, and was immediately drawn into the first post that showed up – “The Canadian Food Experience Project”. What a great post! [...]

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MasterChef Recap: Season 4, Episodes 5 & 6

Oh, the best laid plans. I thought for SURE I was done with doing the recaps… but I went and told my fellow “contestants”. Peer pressure! So, I’ll continue doing the recaps for now. A bit of a disclaimer: I like to keep things positive on this blog…. but I also like to keep things [...]

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