recipes
Joyeux Noel from Paris
[My aunt who lives in Paris sent me a lovely little note recently: "I love your blog and the foodie sections in particular. I frequently make the Curried Cauliflower Soup that Kristen Pickett contributed—the tip of roasting the cauliflower first is brilliant and makes all the difference…" She wanted to share a holiday recipe and [...]
Greg Nash: Beer and food advocate
[Wrapping up a great week of East Coast good spirits is brewmaster at the Hart and Thistle Gastro-brewpub in downtown Halifax. And, if you need an excuse to grab a pint, it's actually his birthday tomorrow so head over for a special dinner and release of 'Double Simcoe SMaSH'. It's also your last chance to [...]
Mexico Lindo
If, up until now, you’ve associated Mexican food with slathering as much melted cheese, sour cream, and salsa on some kind of soft or hard tortilla let me just direct you to a restaurant in the city that can sort you out stat. The only way to describe Mexico Lindo is to say that it’s [...]
Pickled think: Beets
Since reading Barbara Kingsolver’s wonderful book Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life, I’ve been resolved to try to eat more locally and even grow our own vegetables. A few years ago Cokebaby and I moved from condo living into a house where we have since been growing an urban container garden. This year [...]
The foolish food philosophies and me
[Wrapping up the East Coast By Taste series this week is the Feisty Chef! If you missed any of the posts, check the archived East Coast Guest Posts. Thanks once again to all the fabulous foodies and chefs who wrote so passionately about the theme for this month.] By Renee Lavallee When I embarked upon [...]
With Bite: The caress of comfort food
[Next up on the East Coast By Taste series is fellow Haligonia blogger, With Bite, whose gastronomical adventures always make for a fun and mouth-watering read.] By Kristen Pickett There’s just something about comfort food. Well, it comforts you. Everyone has his or her own criteria required for a dish to provide that feeling of [...]
Once upon a feast
[This week I'll be featuring another series of East Coast Guest Posts called East Coast By Taste. We'll be looking at food and cooking philosophies from local chefs and foodies. The first post comes from one of many people I follow on Twitter.] By Ruth Daniels When asked about my cooking and food philosophy, the [...]
English and Irish cuisine: My kingdom for a salad
Food in London and Ireland was about what we expected it to be: ample servings of meat and potatoes. While we made it into our fair share of pubs, we did try to balance our diet out with other dining establishments and markets. It’s not that the meals were totally devoid of vegetables—we’d often get [...]
Growing up Greek in Nova Scotia
[I recently had the pleasure of meeting this next guest at the Halifax Chicks tweetup recently. She was kind enough to write this lovely post and convince her mom to share a fabulous recipe that I can't wait to try out! Did I mention I have a weakness for food?] By Bessy Nikolaou One of [...]
Il Latino: Tuscan dinner
In April of 2008, Cokebaby and I travelled to Italy with his sister and her husband. While there we had a lovely dining experience at a place called Il Latino in Florence. Each year for the holidays we traditionally have a “luxe” meal with our in-laws slash travel companions. This year we attempted to recreate [...]
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