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Three Sisters Chicken
by Krista | Dec 18, 2009 | Winter
When my three brothers and I were little, we thought our Mum was the only one who knew how to make the best honey-baked chicken in the whole wide world. We begged her to make it, craving the salty sweet contrast of honey and mustard with the lingering flavor of curry...
A Pudding Sort of Night
by Krista | Dec 17, 2009 | Winter
Many years ago I read an article in Victoria magazine about the comfort of homemade pudding. The author reminisced about being sick as a child, tucked up in bed under quilts, and how her mother would make her all sorts of wonderful puddings, thick, creamy and oh so...
Bacon Makes Everything Better
by Krista | Dec 16, 2009 | Winter
Monday was a perfectly ghastly evening with freezing rain, slick roads, and icy winds, but nothing could dampen our spirits as the Culinary Experimentation Group met to celebrate Mike's birthday with bacon, bacon and more bacon. 🙂 Our imaginations whirring, we were...
Amsterdam Brunch
by Krista | Dec 15, 2009 | Autumn
It was a brisk, chilly morning in Amsterdam. I had awakened much too early and after a solitary jaunt along the Prinsengracht Canal past Anne Frank's house, an exquisite old church and plenty of interesting people, I was positively ravenous! Thankfully my friend Amy,...
Workaday Quiche
by Krista | Dec 14, 2009 | Winter
It felt like I was living in a Christmas globe yesterday as the heavens opened and dumped snow upon us, coating trees, streets and housetops in a muffling blanket. It was wonderful! 🙂 I blissfully wiled away the hours watching an old Cary Grant movie, reading and...
A Bite of Aspic
by Krista | Dec 11, 2009 | Winter
I first spotted Art in an airport lounge in Seattle where I sat waiting to catch my flight home. He was dapper as can be with a tweed fedora, fitted leather jacket over a black turtleneck, wool trousers, snazzy leather shoes, and carrying a saxophone case. I was...
Oatmeal, Dates and a 1/2 Cup of Bacon Grease
by Krista | Dec 10, 2009 | Plucky Thursday
As Mums and I were chit-chatting the other day, we discovered that we were both craving the same cookie: thin, tender oatmeal sandwiched with sticky date filling. It's a cookie that harks back to my childhood in Canada when church and school potluck dessert tables...
Honey Mead and Roasted Figs
by Krista | Dec 9, 2009 | Winter
The honey mead fizzed and bubbled, little pieces of oak bobbing to the surface as it brewed in the darkened closet. We had made the mead ourselves, mixing purified water with glistening ribbons of honey and yeast, watching excitedly as it fermented, waiting...
Parisian Hot Chocolate
by Krista | Dec 8, 2009 | Winter
An icy wind is rattling my window this morning, ready to blast me in the face and toss my hair frantically the moment I step out the door. It reminds me a of a particularly cold, blustery day in Paris when all I wanted was a cup of something warm to wrap my fingers...
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