Category Archives: Savory

Power of Food + Internet

The more food blogs I discover the more of one common element continues to show through. It’s obvious that we food bloggers love food. We love discovering it, smelling, touching, buying, cooking, sharing, eating and meeting with the growers who bring it all to us. It was quite sudden when it occurred to me that...

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Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

…And read this book. I probably can’t tell you how excited I was to snag an advanced copy of this book last week. Already being a fan of Michael Pollan and specifically his last book, Omnivore’s Dilemma, this book is a continuation of his essay entitled “Unhappy Meals”, published in The New York Times Magazine....

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Surpisingly Easy Hors D’oeuvres That Don’t Involve Opening a Chip Bag.

I don’t know about you, but I typically go one of two ways when I’m on hors D’oeuvres duty; Chips and dip or stress with what will impress. I like entertaining and I quite like the reputation that guests don’t need to eat before a gathering at my place. Lately I’ve found a few speedy...

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Red Borscht With Porcini Mushroom Pierogies

From my fractional polish heritage, I was so lucky to have been included in my sister in laws family Christmas Eve tradition. Once horrified by the memories of beet soup with homogonized milk, that puce nightmare was no comparison to the hard work and detail which had been presented before us to gobble up. The...

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Does My Blog Look Good In This? – December 2007

Yay! I’m the host of this month’s Does My Blog Look Good in This?! I couldn’t be more excited! It’s amazing that when I started out at blogging, I thought I’d just be jotting down a few stories and my favourite recipes. Not long into it, I began to realize that I was a sucker...

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