When I was asked to come up with a recipe using pumpkin for one of my “What’s for Dinner” classes at Loblaw’s, I was so excited (I’m a Chef, this excites me!). There are literally thousands - if not more, recipes out there using pumpkin so I knew the recipe would be out there, the [...]
My apologies for not posting last week, a wonderful person succumbed to cancer and though he will be dearly missed by anyone who ever met him, his genuine warmth and sense of humor is indelibly etched in all our memories. Taken much too young. But that is life my friends and we must persevere and move forward. So I'm [...]
Last night we had one of my favorite comfort foods – farfalle with parsley pesto, steamed broccoli and thinly sliced prime rib. Now I know what you’re thinking – thinly sliced prime rib. The reality is we are trying to cut down on our meat intake so the pile of thinly sliced prime rib, psychologically [...]
We were all excited yesterday – going to go apple picking! It really is one of my favorite memories of cool fall Saturdays with the kids and their friends. I always came home with a couple of bags of apples – the crispness of apples just off the tree, the sweet tartiness of that first [...]
Yes… you can make these delicious cookies using the BKM – again, I cannot emphasize enough – 1 container to clean up convenience. I made two sizes – only because I had a helper and one ice cream scoop, so I used the spoon method. This was a Sunday night experiment and the more familiar [...]
My favorite comfort food is pasta with meat balls. It doesn’t have to be spaghetti, in fact my favorite pasta is penne. Something about the shape of the noodles, the way sauce sticks inside the tunnels, whether it is a meat sauce, tomato sauce or just pesto, it’s undeniably comfortable. Throw in meatballs, the kind [...]
Oh it's the first one relax, I'll get more adventurous as my familiarity with the machine builds. I wanted to try making something that even if I didn't follow the instructions for the machine, I'd still be able to salvage for dinner. So Mashed Sweet Potatoes it was. I followed the cooking instructions in the book - [...]
The box arrived by courier. I carefully sliced open the tape and took each piece out, laying it all in front of me. For the first time, looking at an instruction manual, wished my kids were here to help me! I can do this I thought, it's what Chefs do, - I'm trained, older, seasoned as they [...]
It's here!!! From my previous blog, I entered a contest to "test-cook" with the Bellini Kitchen Master. Well my entry was selected and it arrived - and what a package it is. It contains a stainless steel bowl, cooking basket, steam accessories, a mixer, chipping blade, stirring blade, and other pieces to make cooking life easier. It [...]
