Posted in berry, dessert, frozen, fruit, ice cream, raspberry, raw, summer, yoghurt on July 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Popsicles are a great way of cooling down, and you can use what ever you have in the fridge or fruit basket. Basically, you make a smoothie, throw a popsicle stick in it and freeze. Voila! Try peach and blueberry or strawberry and banana. yumaroo!
Raspberry, Banana and Rosewater Popsicles
1 cup raspberry [...]
Posted in berry, blueberry, dessert, fruit, gelatin, jelly, lavender, pudding, summer on July 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s been hot in TO this weekend. A dry heat, for a change, making us think a bit of Summer in Johannesburg. I’ve been longing for a swim in a pool and a bowl of ice-cream afterwards. So I made a couple cold desserts to keep our temperatures under control. Now, [...]
Posted in berry, cake, cherry, chocolate, clafouti, cream, dessert, fruit, pudding, summer on July 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Cherry Clafouti seems to be the most classic of Clafoutis, and while I’m most usually a classic girl at heart, now and then I like to laugh in the face of danger, flirt with the wild side and generally throw caution to the thermal currents of a hot oven. Mr P was sitting [...]
Posted in basil, beetroot, chicken, chives, dinner, olive oil, salad, tarragon, thyme, walnut, walnuts on July 26, 2007 | No Comments »
For some reason, I never really discovered tarragon before. My Mom had a bunch of different herbs growing the in kitchen garden: sage and chives and mint and thyme and rosemary, but never tarragon. And yet, after doing some reading, it turns out to be a quintessential herb, an old and trusted favourite in many [...]
Posted in Apricot, cake, clafouti, dessert, fruit, summer on July 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Clafouti, clafouti, everywhere!
It’s funny how, when you have a great idea and start doing a bit of research you find that idea all over the place already. It’s like there’s a creative current in the air that reaches us all at the same time, or more or less so. I had a [...]
Posted in anchovy, bell pepper, chard, cheese, dinner, mediteranean, olives, onion, parmesan, pepper, red pepper, rice, spinach, stuffed, summer, swiss chard, tomato sauce on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Peppers!
Sometimes we bite off more than we can chew. Did you ever, as a child, put an entire hard boiled egg in your mouth at a picnic, and then sit there (knowing your Mother could see you) and realise you couldn’t spit it out, abut couldn’t chew and swallow it all either? [...]
Posted in anchovy, basil, brunch, cheese, cream cheese, lunch, mediteranean, rye bread on July 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Too much food! There’s just too much food here!
I think I need a little something to nibble on while I think of what to do with it all…
How about a little open sandwich of country rye with cream cheese, tomato, fresh basil and anchovies? Sounds like a meal!
The Summer is fabulous in Toronto. [...]
Posted in almond, blueberry, dessert, fruit, jam, marzipan, pastry, pie, summer, tart on July 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a busy weekend, jam packed (ahem, excuse the pun) with picnics, parks and outdoor activity. After a birthday party picnic on Saturday Mr P and I met with friends on the Toronto Islands for a day of sun and tennis and food. There’s something about picnicking, where you you snack all [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, fruit, jam, preserve, raspberry, raw, summer on July 23, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the toughest parts of relocating to a far and distant land is that your loved ones, your friends and family, become far and distant in their own right. Celebrations become a little bitter sweet events spent with fewer people and often thinking of the loved ones you wish were there. When [...]
Posted in summer, tomato on July 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Now here’s something for my Dad. I know when they visited us here in Toronto in May that they were a little disappointed at how few tomatoes we ate at home. My Dad loves a tomato, eating them in and on everything and often by themselves like an apple. We used [...]
