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Cooking
Tradition-bending Ideas for Christmas Dinner
Whether you’re hosting Christmas dinner or attending a festive potluck dinner party, it’s hard to walk the line between tradition and innovation. Some people are happy with the same turkey, mashed potatoes and jell-o your family has been making all your life, which is to say, as long as time itself. However, some people like to branch out and try cooking and consuming new and exciting things. Although I look forward to eating my Granny’s pies and making jokes about jell-o all year long, I also like exploring new foods. Here is my list of dishes to try this Christmas that are exotic enough to be exciting, but inconspicuous enough to entice even the most stringent of tradition upholders. Continue reading
Eggs Everyway: How to Make Scrambled Eggs
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
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