March 2012
3 posts
For the love of a farl!
We recently picked up the improbable winner of the 2010 James Beard Cookbook of the Year award, Colman Andrews’ The Country Cooking of Ireland, which is chock-full of wonderful and often very simple recipes. For Stephen in particular, being one-half Newfoundlander and the other half Scottish and English, the book is a catalogue of wonders. The very first thing that simply HAD to be cooked...
Another simple dessert
Just so you don’t think we do nothing but eat dessert, we’re actually clearing out a bit of a backlog of intended entries, so these are back-to-back.
Inspired by a recent visit to some friends’ for dinner where baked apples were served as dessert, we decided to resurrect a long-lost favourite that is a classic, as well as simple and delicious!
Although there are a number of...
Simple dessert
Recently, we were at Premier Gourmet in Buffalo, which is in the process of moving to a new location. The store felt positively barren, with most shelves (at best) half-empty. However, the upshot was that what was there was often at a much-reduced price. We picked up a few items, one of which was a package of heavenly-scented powdered vanilla sugar from Sweden, which was $1.99!
When we got...
