It’s just starting to snow outside. Again. We’ve had a wonderful, and sometimes daunting, amount of snow this year, here in Toronto and I’m grateful that the novelty of it all, caused by having spent most my life in a hot climate, hasn’t quite worn off yet. I’ve listened to the local population bemoan the [...]
Archive for February, 2008
The Heart of the Artichoke and a little Truffle
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whiskey Winter Warmer
Posted in breakfast, brunch, cinnamon, dried fruit, fig, oats, porridge, winter on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There’s something about a hot, steaming bowl of fresh oats porridge on a lazy Sunday morning that somehow sets the tone for the rest of the day. A good, long read of the Sunday papers, a walk in a park in the winter sunshine and a late afternoon nap, followed by a sightly too [...]
Winter Blues
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ho Hum. I’m afraid I’ve been a little shy on content in the cooking department, due largely to a general tedium of the available content in the market but also to that winter malaise of wanting to eat nothing but the comfiest of comfy cooking. Things like vegetable soup and baked butternut and, [...]
