Barberry For You, Zereshk For Me
Posted by Renee | Filed under Everyday, Recipes
I have the habit when I go food shopping, to come across ingredients that I’ve never seen or used before. This happened to me a few years back when I was picking up my usual haul from Mid-East Food Centre. I looked into the refrigerator case and saw a bag of jewel-like red berries. I [...]
Tags: recipe, vinaigrette
Spice It Up
Posted by Renee | Filed under Tips
I am big believer in using herbs and spices to make the ordinary extra-ordinary. At last count, I think I had at least 30 different spices in my spice drawer, and I would be lost if I ran out of any of them. Here are a few tips for keeping those pesky spice drawers organized.
Tags: spices
Saturday Food Round-Up
Posted by Renee | Filed under Everyday
Everyone has one day out of the week that is their favorite; for me it is Saturday. Saturday is sacred in our household. It is the day that Doug, Zoe & I do our big “round-up” of food for the coming week. This week it started off with our trek down to the Halifax Farmers’ [...]
She Ain’t No Gerber Baby
Posted by Renee | Filed under Everyday
Eight months ago I gave birth to a bouncing baby girl, and decided at that moment that she was going to be a “Bébé Gourmand”. I’ve taken it upon myself to make all of my little monkey’s food in hopes of developing her palate at a young age. Here are a few tips and [...]
Tags: baby food, Fox Hill Cheese
I Feel The Lovage
Posted by Renee | Filed under Everyday
When I was growing up in Quebec, my parents had this big, crazy bush of lovage that I had to walk by everyday. Everyday that I walked by that bush I complained that it stank and that the smell made me sick to my stomach; typical child behaviour. To me, lovage was the bane of [...]
Tags: Inn At Bay Fortune, lovage
