“Better one friend with a dish of food than a hundred with a sigh.”
– Yiddish Proverb
Holiday Ham
Looking back at my formative years in Southeastern Ontario, I’ve realized how many of my memories of Christmas smell like cloves and taste like pig. My mom’s Christmas ham was a beautiful beast. An un-apologetic 1950’s-syle mountain of honey-glazed pork covered in glowing orange slices shot through with cloves. The table would groan under the weight of the unwieldy thing, and our stomachs would groan with anticipation as it was carved. Read More
Cookbooks For Christmas!
Christmas is only a couple of weeks away and if you have someone in your life that is in the industry, or a home cook (or, like me, both!) you can count on them loving and appreciating a good cookbook in their stocking. But which cookbook should you invest in? Everyone’s writing cookbooks now! Bloggers, restaurateurs, stay-at-home moms with million-dollar cameras, they’ve all got their little slice of domestic life out there on the bookshelves. So what makes one better than the other? Read More
Virgina Woolfe Quote
“One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well if one has not dined well.”
– Virgina Woolfe
Focaccia Bread with Parmesan and Thyme
“No Fail” is all I want in a bread recipe. I mean, I suppose I’d want that guarantee wrapped around most recipes I try, but yeah… especially for bread. I don’t freestyle bread. Read More