Maple-Bourbon Pork Chops
Sometimes, a recipe comes to you 2nd, 3rd, 4th hand and one hopes the recipe doesn’t get muddled in the process. This recipe was inspired by Janet of well, Janet is Hungry who in turn was inspired by Kirsten of Kirsten’s Home Cooking. Whenever I first try a recipe, I try not to screw around […]
French Toast
As a kid, I always wondered what made French Toast…French? Not until my adulthood did I find out French Toast should be made with baguettes. If you have some leftover baguette, cut them up and use them for french toast the next morning. One peeve I have about french toast is that people simply sink […]
Yogurt and Tomato Soup
Do you often find vacant stores that become converted into “bargain book stores”? I see a few around downtown Toronto and I picked up a book called The Mediterranean Cookbook (Paragon Publishing) and, some say a cookbook is good for 2-3 recipes and this book passes the test. This summer-time soup caught my eye because […]
Greek Horiatiki Salata
This thread goes out more to the Greek restaurants than households out there who have lost touch with their own cooking (not all but many). One of the cornerstones of the Greek table is the salad and in particular the Horiatiki Salata. We’ve all had it by now at a Greek restaurant or at a […]
Saffron Rice Pilaf
I recently celebrated my birthday and one of the gifts I received was some Greek saffron! The timing couldn’t have been better as I was about to make some rice pilaf for guests and I had heard of saffron being often used in rice and paella dishes. I had heard of Greek saffron but not […]
Sole Gascogne
One of my earliest memories of food & cooking shows was watching flamboyant Graham Kerr as the Galloping Gourmet…remember him? The Galloping Gourmet’s TV career actually began in Canada & his show was taped at CJOH in Ottawa for the CBC. Still don’t remember him? He used cook and always drink wine, sometimes be by […]
Poppy Seed Pappardelle
Here in Ontario, we have to buy our booze from a provincial monopoly of beer & liquor stores and that sucks! The freedom and the option to buy beer, wine and spirits should be allowed so that I may run to the corner store and pick up that bottle of wine or that case of […]
Macedonian Sausages With Mushrooms
This recipe is inspired by a booklet I was reading that covered various Spanish Tapas ideas. The dish jumped out at me immediately and I had all of the ingredients save for the Chorizo. I used Macedonian sausage. Greeks love their sausage but allegiances as to what type they like are very regional. In the […]
Shrimp Salad With Metaxa Brandy
I’ve adapted this salad from a Lobster Salad that was displayed on Christine Cushing Live’s show with restauranteur Costas Spiliadis. He owns & operates Estiatorio Milos which has 3 locations (Montreal, New York and Athens) and he’s renowned for presenting Greek cuisine in it’s purest and freshest state. Costas prides himself on using only the […]
Barbecued "Onion Soup" Ribs With Chipotle BBQ Sauce
I haven’t been a fan of “boiling ribs”…what away to suck out the flavour of the meat I would always say. However, I came across the August issue of Chatelaine and it had a dedicated a section to it’s most popular recipes. I tried out this recipe out of curiousity and because I needed a […]