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Blog Post Sole With Lemon Butter Caper Sauce by Merry
Photo I have always found sole to be the most tasteless fish and no matter what I do with it, from frying in a batter through cooking in a white sauce - the result is the same - along the l...
Blog Post Recipe For Cannele de Bordeaux by Merry
I noticed that there was quite a hunt on the forum for a recipe for Cannele de Bordeaux. Apparently, there is more to these than meets the eye, and many possible verisions of the recipe....
Blog Post Tahini Cookies by Merry
Ana Australia did an interesting post about Israel and Israeli food from her travel experiences in Israel last year. I agree with a lot of what she says, based on the time I spent there, although s...
Blog Post Stir Fry Brussel Sprouts With Garlic by Merry
I am always surprised when I find out so many people have a deep dislike for vegetables like broccoli and Brussel sprouts. Both of them are delicious in my eyes (or mouth) and I can't remember eve...
Blog Post The Prettiest Mid-Sized Range In The World by tundranut
     I just love my 5-burner La CornuFe range by Purcell Murray.        The original mammoth La Cornue cookers may be viewed and even sometimes used for cooking ...
Blog Post French Cooking Lessons Online by The Salty Chef
I have decided to share some of my training and skills with you that I learned while attending the Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School. Each week we will feature a lesson and assignment. All you have to d...
Blog Post French Cooking Lessons 2 by The Salty Chef
Now that you have competed lesson 1, it is time to get cooking! This week we are going to talk about soups. By now, if you followed lesson 1, and made your basic white stock, then this next section s...
Blog Post Can Fantastic Vanilla Ice Cream Be Made Without an Ice Cream Maker? by Merry
Its really really hot right now, even though its about 10 pm, the air is as still as can be and the humidity is about as high as it gets. Summer is not really I time that I want to be cooking an...
Blog Post Which is The Classic Spaghetti Bolognese? by Merry
So what is your take on spaghetti Bolognese? This is one of the standard meals for my family, and always a gold medal winner.I use ground beef , crushed tomato's, onions, bay leaves, ga...
Blog Post Sublime Chocolate Cake by Merry
photo I have been looking for a really great chocolate cake recipe other than my all time winner, which I have been using for close to 20 years, just for a change and I found a great one on...
Blog Post Fried Eggs and Toast? by Merry
For a few years Fried eggs, sunny side up have been banned from my house due to my very young kids. Now that they are slightly older, I treat the family every now and then to a fried egg dinner, aimi...
Blog Post Strange Food Combinations That Work by Merry
Sometimes, As much as I love cooking, the inspiration isn't there, so I go snooping around other blogs to see what is up. I was reading a post in cook sister about traditional food combinations an...
Blog Post Vichyssoise by The Salty Chef
This simple combination of potatoes, onions, and milk makes a deliciously creamy, chilled soup. * T butter * 3 c onion, chopped * 1 t salt * 4 medium potatoes, peeled and diced * 4 c water *...
Blog Post Irish Cream and Coffee Cheese Cake by Merry
I love Irish Cream. I do. I never understood why it was served in such tiny tiny glasses, because it tasted so good. I don't keep it around though, because I know I wouldn't be able to res...
Blog Post Perfect Combination's Celeriac and Persimmon by Merry
I love eating raw foods as well as cooked, and I am a great fan of fruit and vegetables. Persimmons are a winter staple in my home, especially now, as we have found out that the children are better o...
Blog Post Peanut Butter and Cabbage Sandwich? by Merry
part of what is so nice about being a foodie, or just being someone who looks at food as a creative outlet is the licence we give ourselves to experiment. I don't often invite guests over for dinn...
Blog Post The Hands on Cooking Experience by Merry
I have just read an interesting post in the Accidental Hedonist about how we go about preparing our food. How often do we actually touch it, chop it and, stir it ourselves and how much do we rely o...
Blog Post Jamaican Carrot Soup with Pear Relish by Merry
Rumor has it that it is fall. Not that I have noticed but that is the rumor. I am all ready rearing into soup mode and can't wait to get a good chicken soup going, or maybe an Hungarian Goulash soup...
Blog Post The End Of The Veggies by Merry
We have our usual supermarket weekly run, and usually get everything we are going to need for that week having to do very little extra shopping. I find it cheaper this way, and usually use the same i...
Blog Post Broccoli Pasta by Merry
photo credit creative commons license rachel is Its funny how many variations can be for the same dish. Pasta with broccoli is a great favorite in our house. I usually start making the ...
Blog Post What Is The Difference Between a Clafoutis and A Tart? by Merry
So now I am a little confused. I was wondering around the food blogs for breakfast, reading a wonderful recipe here and another one there, when I ran into a post on Taste Buddies about Plum Clafou...
Blog Post Spicy Silan, Citrus and Ginger Chicken by Merry
I think that I have made chicken in every possible way under the sun over the last year or so, and just the thought of making another chicken to the same old combinations is really not enough to get ...
Blog Post Cooking Motivations by Merry
I love food. Eating it, cooking it reading about it watching it on television - whatever. As long as it has to do with food. It wasn't always like this, I was kind of attacked with the foo...
Blog Post Brown Eggs and Slow Cooking Stew by Merry
How annoying - I just finished writing a long and lovely post only to delete it with great gusto ... You know how sometimes something seems like a complete novelty to you, and then it turns out yo...
Blog Post Fresh Zucchini Salad - Nice for a Change by Merry
My favorite kind of recipe these days is a quickie recipe.... gone are the days, yet to return that I can spend the whole morning or afternoon making elaborate dishes that have 200 steps till they ar...
Blog Post Warda's Spicy Eggplant and Yogurt Dip by Merry
Eggplants.You either love them or hate them. There is no middle path here. And to Love them you need to be of a certain culture, or cuisine. I used to hate them, but have since become a convert, and...
Blog Post Different Methology for Chicken Cooking by Merry
One of the reasons I trawl other food blogs. is because I love seeing how other people do similar things differently from me. Chicken is wonderful in that you can reinvent it every time you cook ...
Blog Post Dreams of Adult Food by Merry
I'm not sure how many of you have kids, and when or why you started cooking with any kind of seriousness, for me, although I dabbled in the kitchen before I had kids, and even thought I knew a thing ...
Blog Post Ginger Snap Cookies by Merry
I love ginger snaps, though have never actually attempted to make them. Every now and again I see a box in the supermarket, by the brand that I love (and can never remember the name) and of course, e...
Blog Post Home Made Granola by Merry
I love granola but don't buy it very often seeing it is so expensive. This seems like a great recepie , organic to boot (although a little promotional...) For some reason I never tho...
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