Taste buds, Molecules and Buona Notte

Cookbooks, Dessert Recipes, Drink recipes, Events, Exotic World Recipes, Food Trends & Gadgets, Instructions 101, Montreal Buzz, Restaurant reviews

I have such a major backlog of food posts you will have to excuse me but I will do a combo here. I recently attended 2 absolutely wonderful foodie events here in Montreal. I feel so privileged to receive such invitations. I’ll go in chronological order! A new...

NEED HELP for Gluten Free Pumpkin Gnocchi

Instructions 101, Vegetable and Side Dishes Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

My friend Melanie came over for dinner last night to celebrate her birthday. Well it was a week ago and we did the family thing already…now it was just us. Having her over is always a challenge as everything has to be gluten and dairy free and I don’t want...

Pumpkin: scrub and roast the whole darn thing

Food Trends & Gadgets, Instructions 101, Traditions, Vegetable and Side Dishes Recipes

I love this time of the year because I LOVE Halloween and cooking with squash. Weather wise I wish I still had my shorts and sandals though. Pumpkins and squashes can be use in so many different ways it is mind boggling. Every food blog is posting about these...

Colorful Panna Cotta Verrine

Dessert Recipes, Instructions 101

I love verrines. They are just the cutest thing to have with a meal. I love how you can pack a visually stunning show in a small glass container. It is cooking and it is art all in one. This post was actually my second possible entry had I move on to the 4th round of...

Preserve as I Say, not as I Do

Breakfast Brunch Recipes, Instructions 101, Traditions

The September 2010 Daring Cooks’ challenge was hosted by John from Eat4Fun. John chose to challenge The Daring Cooks to learn about food preservation, mainly in the form of canning and freezing. He challenged everyone to make a recipe and preserve it....

Citrus Mezcal Sherbet

Drink recipes, Exotic World Recipes, Ice Cream and Frozen Recipes, Instructions 101, Traditions

After the Fruit Dropping Party I had a large amount of cut up citrus fruit leftovers. What to do? That will come in a future post but from this recipe I had still an unused portion, about 1 cup, of boiled down citrus flavored sugar syrup made with oranges, grapefruit,...