Entries from October 2007

October 30, 2007

The Velvet Glove ripped by reviewer

Wow.
My husband and I have a list of places we’d like to try in Winnipeg. Restaurant Dubrovnik, 529 Wellington and Hy’s are all on the list. One of the restaurants that we’ve been noodling over for a while is The Velvet Glove. They boast a CAA Four Diamond Award, and frequently appear on “must-eat” lists [...]

October 28, 2007

Chocolate Chip Cookies a la Anna Olson

I loooooooove chocolate chip cookies. The problem is that baking… Well, I like baking, but baking doesn’t like me. I always find a way to mess things up a bit.
So while I was intrigued by this month’s Foodtv.ca Recipe Challenge, I was leery to actually attempt the recipe. But a boring afternoon finally prompted [...]

October 25, 2007

Don’t Cook Down to Yourself

Sorry for the lack of post-age recently. We’re slowly gearing up for our yearly vacation, and that has taken up a lot of my brain cells.
I read an interesting post a while ago (Oct 12?! good grief) on Tigers & Strawberries. Barbara wrote about the phenomona of “picky eaters” when it comes to kids. A [...]

October 9, 2007

(Mostly) 100 Mile Thanksgiving on Foodtv.ca

Due to my work schedule and a few other concerns, we had our Thanksgiving dinner last weekend. We decided to do a 100 mile Thanksgiving dinner, and I wrote about the experience for Foodtv.ca.
It was a huge amount of work putting this dinner together, mostly through planning out what to have and where to get [...]

October 5, 2007

Egg Yolk Colours

Below is an illustration of the difference you can get between two similar eggs:

Both are large, grade A chicken eggs. Both are organic. Both are free-range. Both were purchased at local grocery stores.
The egg on the left had a white shell, and was grown by a local egg producer for (what I believe to be) [...]

October 2, 2007

Ranch Chicken Casserole Experiment

With the husband away on business, I tend to fall into my single-me mode of eating: a box of Stove-Top stuffing, or a bag of popcorn for dinner. “This is silly,” I thought while at work one day. “This is my chance to truly experiment with a recipe, try it out, and then I’m the [...]