Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and the flavors of roasted turkey, creamy mashed potatoes, and tangy cranberry sauce are about to take over our lives for a few days. In preparation for Thanksgiving, I like to step off the continent and travel to flavours from around the world so that I am …
Fall is here and I love it! I love the crunchy leaves beneath my feet and the chill in the air. I don’t even mind the dark encroaching on my daylight. As any good New Englander does, we let our toes freeze a little and allow the chill to creep …
Just as the farms are starting to grow some delicious things for us to eat here in New England (or to be fair the greenhouses are doing a lot of the work right now), the kids’ schedules are going crazy. From end of year events, special meetings, concerts, recitals and …
This is a post sponsored by Wayfair.com where you cannot buy the ingredients for this cocktail but where you can buy all the fun accessories that you need to make the drink in, pour the drink from, sip the drink on, and kick back and rest your feet on. As …
There’s not much about my life now as a parent that resembles my life as a college student in Montreal except for one thing: stir fry. In college, stir fry was the meal I prepared most often. It was cheap. It was easy. It was tasty. I would take the …
I have recently been reconnected with Australian Lamb. For those of you who know me, you know I like to shop and eat local more often than not. In fact, the other day I saw that some grass fed beef was on sale, but then I saw that it was …
Holiday baking is always better if you have a classic with a twist. This pinwheel cookie recipe is a vintage recipe but we’ve updated the spices to give it a little holiday zing.
On Tuesdays we head out to the Lindentree Farm in Lincoln to pick up our weekly farm share. This time of year, we are treated with an abundance of raspberries, some nice alliums and of course plenty of beets and kale. Over on the Cape, the Chatham Bars Inn, which …
As I mentioned, Isabelle and I were treated to a morning in the kitchen with Chef Barbara Lynch along with other families for the Ben’s Beginners Cooking Contest Kickoff. Here is the recipe that we made together. It is a perfect soup for fall and if you can get your …
I recently had the opportunity to create a recipe using Hood Sour Cream. Even though I cook a lot, I am usually a recipe cook. I occasionally do a little kitchen improv but I never write it down. So in fact this was my first ever experience developing a recipe …
