Eggs Everyway: How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs

 

One of my favourite foods to eat and cook is also the first food I learned to cook that didn’t come in a box with instructions printed on the side, that food is the egg. Hard boiling your eggs is one of the easiest ways to prepare them and is a skill that every woman, who takes pride in her cooking, should master. It may not be the most exciting form an egg can take but it does have several delicious destinations including egg salad sandwiches, devilled eggs or my mom’s specialty, pickled eggs. Continue reading

How to Raise a Rabbit

Spring is here, Easter is next weekend and adorable bunnies are popping up everywhere you look.

Look here’s one now

You may be thinking this is a great time to take a real rabbit home, for yourself or as an Easter gift for a child, but before you do, you should consider everything that goes into caring for a happy house hopper. Continue reading

How to Start a Running Program

The last of the lingering snow has melted out from under us, the spring rains have washed away the memory of the once barren, white landscape, my cat has a bounce in her step, knowing that soon, the windows will open again, my bunny is shedding her winter fluff in anticipation of the warmer weather and my legs are aching for their first run of the season. Spring is in the air. Continue reading

How to Properly Cook Sausage

There are many ways to cook sausage. Even in sausage homelands like Italy and Germany, there is no proper way to cook a sausage, as the best method will differ depending on the dish it is being prepared for. My English mother-in-law – and her son – swears by a cooking method the family calls “steaming”, although it’s actually closer to poaching. Not only do they cook the best sausages I’ve ever had, but I didn’t like sausage before they made it for me. Continue reading