Archive for August, 2007

I have terrible recipe-keeping habits. When I'm in the mood to create in the kitchen, I usually grab a scrap of paper and a pen, and take very vague notes during the cooking process. This practise is not so bad if I go immediately to the computer after dinner to properly type it out, but who does that? The ...

When my youngest step-son requested a Mexican meal for his birthday dinner, I decided to experiment with some old favourites. I urge everyone to understand that "Mexican" to an average American pretty much entails any recipe involving cheese and a tortilla, so I hardly consider my style to be authentic in any way. Like I tell the boys: were I ...

My step-son's 17th birthday recently passed and, while I generally try my hardest to make the most girly cake possible for him, things got a little more classy this year. I'm not quite sure what's wrong with me because I'm not in any way concerned with sparing his manly pride. Anyway, after much searching for a good chocolate cake recipe, I settled on a recipe from the ...

When I lived in the states and engaged in a less than healthy diet of fast food and microwaved feasts, I developed a serious devotion to Taco Bell mild sauce. It complemented so many different foods; hence a collection of the darling packets lived within the four walls of my kitchen for many years. At one point, when I lived with a friend for about 6 months, we ...

A plea to those of you who call yourselves vegetarian, yet still eat slaughtered-animal products: please stop calling yourselves a vegetarian! It's not that I have a problem with peoples' eating habits because that's their own personal choice, despite the fact that I think everyone should be a vegetarian. It's true that there's a certain level of respect I can't have for most meat eaters, but in terms of judgement ...