by jodi ~ February 12, 2010
Sweet corn soup shooters
Here’s the scene: People are arriving at your cocktail party on an icy January evening. The biting wind has driven the temperature down to a frigid –20°C. Guests unwind scarves from their necks, shake out their hair from the confines of toques, and sling their bulky long coats over the entryway banister before entering the dining area ...
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by jodi ~ August 14, 2009
Zucchini blossoms in my Aunt Janice’s garden
These bright beauties may look like regular ol’ zucchini blossoms, but they’re special. In my aunt’s backyard garden, these blossoms are now yielding Costata Romanesco zucchini, an Italian heirloom varietal that grows in a lovely shade of pale green and has raised ribs running the length of its body. I find it sweeter than ...
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by jodi ~ February 16, 2009
Curried chicken chowder
Chowder. It’s not quite soup and not quite stew. So what is it?
Enter the Oxford Companion to Food, which tells me that in fact, chowder is thought to be named after the iron cooking pot, the chaudière, brought to the east coast of Canada by early French settlers. The Micmac peoples introduced these settlers to ...
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by jodi ~ January 24, 2009