Entries Tagged as ‘Food Favorites’

May 26, 2007

Ranch Chicken and Tri-Color Pasta

Sometimes, you don’t want to make anything complicated for dinner, but you also don’t want to rip open a box of Kraft Dinner and call it a night. It’s times like this you need a nice, easy “feel-good” meal.
This is a recipe that we stumbled across a long time ago, and it’s been in our [...]

April 17, 2007

Sushi Train (aka, Sushi just like Mom used to make*)

There are three Sushi Trains in Winnipeg; this review is for the Sushi Train at the Forks. All three restaurants are similar, with their individual quirks. (For example, the service at the Pembina Sushi Train has historically been a bit frazzled and disorganized, but as we haven’t been there for a long time I can’t [...]

March 29, 2007

Garlic Soup with Poached Eggs

A few years ago, we spent a long weekend at a “couples only” resort. The cabin had a huge bed, a steam shower, a hot tub, a nice kitchenette and satellite TV. Since all we have at home are bunny ears, we devoured hours and hours of cable TV while we relaxed in the hot [...]

March 22, 2007

Sourdough Pretzels

I have a thing for sourdough, first of all. I love the taste, and the texture is just divine. There’s nothing I love more with a rich soup than a big chunk of sourdough bread alongside it.
But sourdough pretzels… Aah, there’s another love. And they’re damn hard to come by, for some reason. There [...]