Scrambled eggs: the favourite breakfast of Dick Van Dyke’s character, Robert Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show and the first kind of egg most of us ever tried to prepare. Although scrambled eggs are easy to make, multiply conveniently and take additions well, they are also easy to mess up and make wrong. The following is my personal, fool-proof way to make delicious scrambled eggs. Continue reading
Category Archives: Food & Recipes
Crust-less Peach Pies
Before I moved the part of Ontario I currently reside in, I thought I didn’t like peaches. Then I tried one that had literally been grown fifteen minutes from my apartment and I fell in love with this fresh, local autumn delicacy. As the harvest season approaches again, I become giddy with the thought that I can again prepare my favourite peachy dessert: crust-less peach pies.
Cottage Country Menu Planning
At least once every summer, my husband and I invite all our friends, fill every square inch of our Volkswagen with food, beer and bathing suits and drive the five hours to our cottage. Being the hostess, it is up to me to come up with a menu for the week that is fun, simple, travels well, multiplies easily and is cost effective. This year we will have eight people staying for a full week, which made planning a menu a little difficult. Here is what I came up with: Continue reading
Eggs Everyway: How to Make Eggs Over Easy
Over easy, or as my French friend, Miss Champagne, says, “easy over”, is my husband’s favourite way to have eggs for breakfast, so as newlyweds, I’ve been making them quite a lot lately. Eggs over easy are eggs that are fried, flipped once and cooked very briefly on that side, hence the “easy,” as opposed to hard/well and the elusive medium, so that the yolks are still mostly runny. As a sunny-side-up girl, I don’t see why you would ever want to flip your egg, but when I do, I like my yolks broken.
Eggs Over Easy