The Dog's Breakfast

“It’s like a pear that has spent the night making love to a rose,” is how Rob described the enigmatic aroma of quince. We brought six quinces home from the market two weeks ago. Like some magic fruit of legend, as they lay ripening on the counter, they slowly started to drive us quince crazy.
They [...]

We’ve been bitten by the preserving bug. Nearly every available surface in the kitchen is occupied by a growing collection of carefully stacked jars. It’s starting to look like a laboratory. Mason jars of every shape and size, and now Weck jars, too. We got our first cases of Weck jars in the mail last [...]

Anyone who is interested in or curious about the food culture of Montreal will be thrilled to lay eyes on Chantelle Grady’s latest edition of A Little Relish.
Chantelle is a stylist, photographer, designer and author who has been involved in a number of wedding and lifestyle publications in Australia and Canada over the years. She’s also the creator [...]

Here’s a post for those curious readers who have asked – where are the recipes that didn’t work out? We’ve been curious about home-made Ricotta since tasting some a year ago at a Sunday Suppers event, and being told how simple and quick it is to make. After looking at a few recipes, we tried [...]

Somehow, this year is flying by, and many things have been put on the back burner while the full-on craziness of life has taken centre stage. Now with summer having taken its final curtain call, a more predictable pace of life is returning, and we’re starting to catch up on the lists of things that [...]

Over the past two months, we’ve gone through a major kitchen edit. It started off as an inventory of Mason jars to prepare for canning, and ended in a thrilling purge. We threw out bags of ancient herbs, and consolidated Rob’s gazillion salts on a single, organized shelf. Two of the things we discovered in [...]

We are always looking for new ways to use chiles. A few years ago, we were both the kind of person who says – I like the flavour of spicy food, but not the heat. (Pff.) This view was somewhat reinforced by a vacation in Thailand, where we had green curries and green papaya salads [...]

The end of summer arrived in our house like a dinner guest who shows up 20 minutes early, just as you’re getting dressed. Hi! Come on in! We had vague plans to do tomatoes, since we’ve spent the past two winters enjoying a home-canned supply, but were starting to doubt we’d have the time.

Then a [...]

You can see the seasons in cloud formations. Summer’s distinctly popcorn-shaped clouds have given way to autumnal, wispy tendrils of white that look like smudges on a chalkboard, or the blur of a photograph of something moving quickly, but frozen in time. Like the clouds in the sky, fall also brings its share of foods [...]

We’re back, with heartfelt thanks to readers and fellow bloggers who have written to say – WTF?. After two years of blogging, the process of posting started getting unwieldy. The blog was nagging us to spend more time in the kitchen, more money on accessories, more time on photo retouching, etc. We needed to take [...]