holiday entertaining

What to serve before a big holiday dinner? If you’re anything like me, searching for delicious vegetable appetizers and side dishes for…

Brown Sugar and Ice Wine Glazed Baked Country Ham on a Thursday night. Ralph thought he’d died on gone to heaven. This is what…

Pouding Chômeur or Poor Man’s Pudding is the dessert that I shared with you, two years ago, for Easter. As much as I loved…

Do you ever lay in bed and daydream about food? I do – more than I should. Before I drift off to…

In two weeks, Meaghan will marry Theo. All of the dreaming, planning, shopping and organizing will end on a beach in Mexico with…

Cinnamon and sugar on anything is delicious. Ever had it sprinkled over a piece of homemade bread toasted slathered in butter. Damn!…

At the tender age of twelve, sitting alone in a dark movie theatre lost in Franco Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet‘, I was…

I survived Christmas day. There were moments of breathlessness or maybe just not wanting to breathe… Tradition crept in throughout the day,…

For a Maritimer, seafood and Christmas go hand in hand. It’s not that we don’t eat fish and seafood the other eleven…

You’d be hard pressed to knock on any door in the Maritimes and not find a recipe for lobster chowder. It would…