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Herb-Marinated Loin of Pork

On January 26, 2009 · 1 Comment

Believe it or not I made yet another Barefoot Contessa/Ina Garten recipe from Back to Basics. I know, ANOTHER one! I just can’t help myself, everything in that book looks and sounds delicious and for the most part has worked out that way. At the rate I’m going I will have made [...]

Szechuan Spicy Bean Curd

On January 9, 2009 · 3 Comments

A few months ago I acquired a copy of Helen Chen’s Chinese Home Cooking . I’ve had a few Chinese cookbooks over the years but I’ve never thought that any of them really captured what I was looking for. I love greasy, Americanized Chinese food. I freely admit it, nothing to [...]

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Pork Tenderloin a la Mexicana

On February 16, 2008 · 1 Comment

And the experimenting continues…

I’ve been having a mexican food obsession recently and have been really into working my way through Rick Bayless’ “Mexican Everyday”. Half of the drive is hunting down ingredients (not that hard but it requires me hopping on the subway and heading downtown) and the other half is [...]

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Pork tenderloin roasted in rosemary salt with fingerling potatoes

On December 25, 2007 · 2 Comments

You definitely can’t tell from my latest forays in the kitchen but I love pork. Pork chops, ribs, bacon, tenderloin, it doesn’t matter. The other days Loblaws had pork tenderloin on sale for some ridiculous price so I bought a 2-pack for about $3.50! A few months earlier I was [...]

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Thanksgiving — Canadialand Style

On October 9, 2007 · 1 Comment

For us Canadians when you Americans are “celebrating” Columbus Day we’re busy having Canadian Thanksgiving. Unlike US Thanksgiving there isn’t a cute story or any history really behind the holiday. I’m convinced that it was created to give us a holiday in October… but that’s just my opinion.

It’s definitely not a [...]