SRC Black Bean and Sweet Potato Quesadilla

Exotic World Recipes, Main Course Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

Today is my group’s reveal day for the Secret Recipe Club. What is the SRC? Basically you are assigned a fellow participant’s blog by the organizer and then you pick a recipe of your choice from that blog and make your version of it. But it is a secret,...

Cranberrylove: Cranberry Lime Galette

Dessert Recipes, Fruit Recipes

What could be a appropriate in season fruit to cook with for the love bloghop this November than cranberries. They bring up memories of holidays to come and huge feasts to enjoy. My mom always made her own cranberry sauce. I can’t stand the canned stuff. So tart...

Halloween Special Tequila Mocking Eye Martini

Drink recipes

Tequila Mocking Eye, ha ha ha, get it? A little play on literature in a creepy way. I love martinis and this is a fun Halloween version where to eyes look back at you. They are simply made from partially peeled radishes with a little hole where you insert a pimento...

Fried Eggplant Garlic Parsley Dressing

Cookbooks, Exotic World Recipes, Vegetable and Side Dishes Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

Happy Sunday everyone! I am so very excited today to talk to you about a cookbook that is about to hit the shelves in November 2012. I was very lucky to get an advanced copy by the author, my dear friend and fellow food blogger Faith of the blog An Edible Mosaic....

Cheesepalooza: Feta Cheese

Cheese Recipes, Exotic World Recipes

Already another cheese. I am on a roll! When I joined Cheesepalooza I was cutting it close to the new monthly deadline plus I wanted to make the challenge on the prior month…so you are getting 2 cheeses in one week. Have you ever wanted to make cheese but are...

5 Star Makeover: South African Pampoenkoekies and Delicata Rings

Exotic World Recipes, Main Course Recipes, Vegetable and Side Dishes Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

This month’s 5 Star Makeover could not be more seasonal: we are cooking or baking with any squash of our choice. My recipe lead me down an unusual path for a squash recipe, it actually took me to South Africa. I bet you would be surprised to learn that pumpkin...

Cheesepalooza: Goat Cheese

Cheese Recipes

Say CHEESE! Not a lot of people can beat my sweet tooth. I love sugar. Salty things have never called out my name so much. But a candy bar and a bag of chips in front of me…the chocolate will vanish and the chips will remain. The one exception to that rule is...

Wordless Wednesday: Apple Picking

Events, Fruit Recipes, Montreal Buzz

A couple of weekends ago I spent a lovely day apple picking with friends in Saint-Hilaire at the Verger Petits et Fils. The first half of the day was cold and wet, perfect timing for a crepe lunch and a cider tasting. To bad the sky was so grey: you cannot see the...

Israeli Couscous With Spinach, Feta and Walnuts

Exotic World Recipes, Main Course Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

Every once in a while you discover an ingredient you just cannot get enough of. My current fetish ingredient is Israeli couscous. I L-O-V-E the stuff. I first discovered it in a farmer’s market in Toronto. On a following trip I went back to buy some more…I...