Last time on ECT we introduced you to the single most indispensable requirement for any serious cook: good knife skills. Today, we’ll continue with some more details about how to achieve them. And we’ll start at the very beginning with how to hold your knife properly…Read More →
Good knife skills are at the heart of every culinary endeavour. And at the heart of good knife practice is… a good blade! You can never become a great cook if you use cheap knives that don’t hold their edge or flex too easily when you’re trying to make precise, straight cuts…Read More →
I’ve long believed – since graduating from Culinary School, anyway – that Cooking is an art like any other, which demands the mastery of a set of techniques that keep cropping up over and over again in the kitchen. Let’s take some time to list them and learn how they work…Read More →
If you want to know who your real friends are, ask everybody you know what they want for lunch on a snow day. You know, when you’re snowed in and either don’t have to go to work or school, or literally can’t get there. What’s your fave snow day lunch that can be made from stuff you have around the house?Read More →
The Bloody Caesar turns 50 this year, and it’s biggest ‘booster’, Mott’s, is preparing a big celebration for National Caesar Day this coming May. But don’t wait for spring to enjoy this classier cousin of the Bloody Mary, Canada’s official National Cocktail…Read More →
I took a day off from Ham yesterday and it was a good thing. Pizza makes a nice change. But now it’s time to do some serious thinking about how to use up all that leftover New Year’s Dinner Ham! Good thing I have a trunkful of recipes designed to make it fun…Read More →
We all know about the ‘classic’ and ‘standard’ hangover cures, any and all of which are commonly called upon for relief by folks who over-imbibed New Year’s Eve. But there are some others out there – many in fact – that have too long gone underappreciated…Read More →
No, it’s true. At least that’s what the old Scottish tradition insists. And all the old Scots people I knew when I was a child, daughter of a Scottish mother, insisted on serving Cabbage in some form on New Year’s Day. But there’s much more to it than that…Read More →