I have little to complain about upon reflecting on the six weeks I’ve spent vacationing in Greece. Despite the cloudy and rainy past couple of days the weather has been sunny, hot and the beaches were clean, not as crowded and the food, ever-inspiring. If if weren’t for yesterday’s cool & rainy day I may [...]
There’s a lot going on in Toronto these days, so much that sometimes you just want to get out of the city, away from the traffic, the phone calls, kids and any of life’s daily pressures. A trip out of the city can recharge your batteries and despite Toronto’s growing problems we have the countryside [...]
I read just last week that fried chicken is “trending”…did it ever go away? I think what is really happening is a movement to fry more at home rather than rely on restaurants and fast food eateries to handle what some consider “heavy lifting” in terms of cooking. Frying food is intimidating, it’s messy and [...]
I’ve always been in awe of southern American cooking – both high & low country, born of rustic beginnings and absolutely delicious! There’s corn bread, macaroni & cheese, biscuits, meatloaf, hush puppies, ribs, roast ham and one of my favourites, fried chicken. My very first fried chicken came out of a bucket by way of [...]
It all started at Ouzeri. Once again my food blogging friends and I were invited to Ouzeri on Sani Resort to be treated to the down-home Greek cooking of Chef Katerina Syrrou. She’s from nearby Arnaia, Halkdiki and currently operates an award-winning and beloved restaurant in Cologne, Germany. This was our last evening [...]
Sometimes, less is more with a dish. When quality ingredients are selected, they should be allowed to shine, without sharing the stage (in this case the plate). I’ve been hankering for home-spun dishes of late…is it the cold? That we’re in January and full-on in the Winter Blues or that’s just the “food space” that [...]
During the holidays (December) most of us were running at a fast clip with work-related parties, dinners with family and friends and the big dinners around Christmas and New Year’s. December was a month to add some extra cheese, use more butter, creams, that extra-thick steak and ask for seconds of rich dessert. A lot [...]
I do enjoy eating raw oysters on the half-shell but I admit, I’ll pay someone else to shuck them. However, one can enjoy oysters in other ways and frying them up has to be one of the tastier alternatives. The neighborhood Asian market always sells tubs of shucked oyster meat and from reading the label, [...]
I’m always amazed when parallels, cooking coincidences and similar ingredients arise out of two different, unrelated cuisines. I discovered such a parallel recently after watching a newly introduced series on the Food Network called Down Home With the Neelys. The Neelys run two family businesses in Tennessee and they are famous for their ribs and [...]
