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What are Ramps you ask? Well, I had to. Ask that is. Basically Ramps are wild onions gathered and eaten in the spring, usually around May. I'd seen a few recipes that called for Ramps over the years in various blogs, and they were something that intrigued me, a lot. I love onions, oniony things of all sorts. Wait a minute, is oniony a word
Did I mention how many great, inspired, fun cooks we have here? And the incredible variety of dishes people make and bring to Boat Club as well as our other gatherings here? I guess I say this every month, but honestly, we do have some phenomenal cooks. And Boat Club this month was no exception. As usual the dishes brought ran the gamut, from appetizers to dessert.&nbs
Every month I have to go through someone else's blog and try to find something to make for the Secret Recipe Club. We're a bunch of bloggers who are assigned a blog and we have to make something from our assigned blog and post about it. We don't know who gets our blog so it's always fun to see what someone else comes up with from your blog as well. Plus of course, as
I finally got to make it, a Flourless Chocolate Cake that is. Usually when I make a chocolate cake for a birthday I use a mix. Cause the person I make the cake for likes that kind of cake. However, I've been wanting to make a flourless chocolate cake for a long time, and Yay Me!!!!, I did it. And it was good. It also won't be the last tim
I read labels, all kinds of labels, on the foods I eat and labels on the food that I feed my dogs. Go ahead and read the labels on your dog food, I'll wait. Well, could you pronounce half the stuff they put in there?I can't, and I'm really pretty good at this reading stuff. I don't even know what most of that stuff is. &nb
I like to read a large variety of stuff on the net, and while a lot of it isn't food related the following article caught my eye. Gee, what a surprise. It was all about eggs, and how some cultures prepare them. Round the world in 80 EggsI like eggs, and I make them in a variety of ways, but I'm always up for a new way of serving them.Think about it, what is easier an
One of the many reasons I love having Tapas Night is that I get to try making new recipes. And sometimes I'm not so sure about a recipe so I will make a tried and true recipe and then sneak add the new one onto the table when no one is watching. Naw, I just like trying new stuff. And have no qualms about trying something and sharing it with a couple or three doze
A long time ago, in a country far away, a little girl tasted this dish for the first time and loved it. Sorry, couldn't resist this. But, it's true. Many years ago my older sister had a neighbor who taught her how to make this dish, and I'm sure many others as well, but this is the one my sister taught my mother to make. And it turned out to be one of t
We had our monthly Tapas Night last night and despite it being the Memorial Day weekend, we still had a few people come and the food offerings were all over the place. Which is the fun part of Tapas night, seeing what people make and bring. And my camera malfunctioned, OK, so it was the person operating the camera and I managed to take a couple of pictures that were so blurr
I do need to make a disclaimer here, right off of the bat, or would that be the tip of the spoon? I attend a weekly gathering of ladies called NPA. I just started joining them at the weekly gatherings last year, but once a year they do a fundraiser for a local organization. This year the organization is Refuge House, a safe house for women and children.&nb
Everyone has one, and this is mine. My fall back, go to, can't think of what else to make potluck dish. I actually had this recipe on my other blog, but I'm slowly (very slowly) turning that blog into my photo blog so I wanted to get this recipe over here and share it again. Besides which my Jalapeno bush has a few jalapeno's on it and my mind keeps thinking of
OK, found it. The recipe I wanted to make for Taste and Create this month. And guess what? Yup it has Jalapeno's in it. Really, this month should be dedicated to Tex Mex/Mexican inspired food.Nah, I just like spicy foods. I was asked to join a group of bloggers called Taste and Create awhile back. Min assigns us each a blog, and we are tasked to make a recipe from tha
Æbleflæsk (Apple with Pork) I'm going back to my Danish roots again. Mainly because I managed to score some really awesome bacon the other day, and had some apples that needed to be eaten or cooked or something. And I also had some lovely Vidalia onions in the cupboard/pantry and being Danish they all added up to one dish, Æbleflæsk. * Vegetarian version at bottom of page. Danes a
I've been experimenting again.This time with Pizza dough, trying to recreate what to us is the 'perfect pizza' and along the way I ended up with way too much dough the other day. I used part of the dough for our pizza on Saturday and saved the rest for Boat Club. And since I had lots and lots of toppings left over from Pizza Night ( I will post about those adventures anothe
It turned out to be an Italian kind of night at Boat Club this month. Well, two of us brought Italian themed dishes and then there were the salads and dips and other great food, but the theme was Italian.I made some Stromboli, which was fun cause I'd never, ever had it before and wanted to use up the rest of the pizza dough I had in the fridge that was leftover from the Pizza I made o
This is my entry for the Secret Recipe Club event this month. And even though every recipe I've posted so far this month is Mexican inspired, I do know how to cook other kinds of food.Just saying... I gotta admit, this was a no brainer, and in fact I didn't look any further on Robin's blog once I found this recipe for Pepper Jack Enchilada's. But she does have so
The first time I ever met a Tuna Melt, I was a grownup. I was in a restaurant and ordered this, to me at least, exotic dish called a Tuna Melt. The other person I was with was shocked, she hated Tuna Melts, her mom used to make her eat Tuna Salad sandwiches, Tuna Noodle Casserole, and Tuna Melts. I had a passing acquaintance with Tuna Noodle Casserol
I've already told you about the great Cinco de Mayo party I attended this past weekend. I made some Salsa, and some Tequila Lime Chicken, and also a couple of cakes. Birthday cakes, but they aren't really worth writing about. I had googled recipes for Tequila Lime Chicken and found so many variations, but they had some basics in common. Lime juice, Tequila and Chicken.
I know I'm coming a little late to the party, it was Cinco de Mayo this past Sunday. Yikes where did the time go? I do want to share this quick and very easy recipe for salsa. This is so darn easy, quick and can be made from the pantry, well mostly from the pantry.I love these Jalepeno's en Escabeche. I eat the carrots first though, even if they burn my t
I hope everyone enjoyed their Cinco de Mayo yesterday. I know I did. A friend hosted a Cinco de Mayo party and a bunch of us went and everyone had a good time. And a funny thing happened. I'd made some Tequila Lime Chicken, and had brought my trusty George Foreman grill with me so I could cook the chicken on the spot. And had my camera out to take picture
You ever go to a restaurant and order one particular dish because you can never replicate it at home? I used to do that with Chile Relleno's. I would always order them when we ate out because I loved the Chile and the oozing melty cheese and the pillow of batter that surrounded the Chile and cheese in a sublime symphony of flavors. Sometimes they were hot, sometimes just nice and mild.&n
Picture this, a lovely egg, over easy snuggled into some Ranchero sauce and served under a sprinkle of cheese and sauce on top of a flour tortilla. You cut into the egg, and the yolk does something magical with the sauce and cheese, and makes your mouth happy as you taste it. Well, it makes my mouth SING!!!!, of course that's usually cause I'm made the sauce to my taste and it is
I had the pleasure of doing a couple of talks about Pioneer cooking techniques and foods at a local festival this past weekend.The whole thing was thrown together at the last minute, but... I'd been out of town for a couple of weeks prior to the event, and it was a busy week couple of days for me when I returned home.So, I did the talks with a couple of props and recipes and had some p
I've noticed a trend the past few years, and it's a great one. There is a yearly convention I attend when I can't get out of going. Yeah, I know, but after you've been to over 20 of them, they tend to be tiring.This year is actually my first one back after an absence of four years, (YEAH!!!, sorry I got excited there), and one thing I noticed is the variety of the food avail
Have I mentioned that I like (love) Mexican food yet? And that I will cook Mexican food at the drop of a hat, or request from my husband? Or just whenever I feel like adding some spice to my life. One of the hardest things about living here has been the lack of Mexican Restaurants that have the kind of Mexican food I'm used to. And as you can s
One of the reasons I love hosting Tapas Night each month is the incredible variety of dishes people make and bring. But foremost is the fact I get to try new recipes, and this one, Pork Souvlaki looked very intriguing. For one thing, it was made with Pork, which is my favourite meat, it incorporated Mint Leaves, (my mint plant was taking over my office and needed trimming) and t
I know you've been waiting for this, I do. As usual, a wonderful variety of foods were made, brought and enjoyed at Tapas this month. I do love hosting this gathering, not only do we get a wonderful group of people together, there are some incredible cooks here as well, and they share their expertise, or should I say the results of their time in the kitchen with
We have a monthly gathering at our house, called Tapas Night. And I thought that Tapas Night and my assignment from Taste and Create should go hand in hand. And they did, beautifully. I tried this, Rawa Dosa from Study Food. It was also a recipe that had previously been made for Taste and Create. Taste and Create is a bunch of bloggers who are assi
Some years ago I had an absolutely yummy grilled steak sandwich at a chain restaurant. That particular restaurant isn't one we frequent so some time went by before we ate there again, and by this time, they had changed the menu and the sandwich was no longer available. I cried, but they wouldn't relent and make me one anyway. The other day I had a lovel
I love a fresh hot tortilla, dripping with butter and with some lovely Chile Verde inside. We had some Chile Verde the other day, and I made some tortillas to go with it. It just so happened I actually remembered to take pictures this time, and I thought I would let you follow me along while I made them.First off, you need the makings for the dough, I use Quake
My assignment this month for the Secret Recipe Club was Suzanne's blog Thru the Bugs on My Windshield She is actually one of the founding members of The Secret Recipe Club so I was excited. And even though she's got some issues with her blog, ( some links don't work) I found a recipe and made it and it was good. I love stuffed peppers anyway, bu
As you may have surmised from previous posts, I'm Danish, but I grew up in Canada. Also and luckily for me, my mother was a great cook, she loved to try new stuff, as well as the old tried and true. So when we moved to Canada, she cooked mainly Danish dishes, but would also branch out and make Italian food, or East Indian curries as well as some more mainstream Canadian food
Have you ever looked at the labels on commercial Spaghetti Sauce? Next time you're out shopping, pick up a can or jar of it and read the label. Notice the presence of sugar in there, whether it's in the form of sugar or high fructose corn syrup or something else that means sugar. I don't know about you, but I try not to buy anything with HFCS in
Do you do meal planning? I mean sitting down and writing down what you are going to make over the next week or two? I do. I've found it helps to keep food costs down, makes it a lot easier to get a meal on the table, and gives me some flexibility to go out to dinner last minute as well, which I like to do. Hey, if I know what we're having and making it can be put off a day o
Just wanted to tell you about the awesome Easter get together we had at a friends house. She really is the hostess with the mostess (is that a word?). She asked me to bring a green salad so I did, but I also had a Savoy cabbage languishing in my veggie bin, so I also made an Asian coleslaw with it. Well, that's what I'm calling it. And since I saw some peop
I'm so excited, had to share this with everyone. I get gift certificates to Amazon and tend to bank them up until I get enough to buy something off of my wish list. I had been looking for these Jar Key's for a long time in stores, and for some reason didn't think of looking on Amazon for them until a couple of weeks ago. One of the reason's I'd been looking
It was another wet and stormy night this month for Tapas, but people persevered and came anyway. At one point the rain was falling at the rate of 6 inches an hour, YIKES!!!!! But we only received just over an inch of rain, but that came in about 15 minutes or so.Now that you've read the weather report, here's the round up of some of the great dishes that were brought.And one thin
I was asked to join with some other bloggers in a new place called Taste and Create. Basically, you are paired with another blogger and make a recipe from their blog, take pictures, and blog about it. Much like another group I'm a member of. And since I really don't go out into the blogosphere and look for more food blogs, I'm more a stumble upon and gee where did I s
Gotcha. I'm not really going to tell you how to cook Penguin Eggs, really, I'm not. But if you want to have some fun with some chicken eggs, the next time you make and bring Deviled Eggs to a gathering or just at home, try holding out a few eggs and make some Penguin Eggs.I made these for Boat Club and got a lot of positive response, in other words, people laughed and had fun with
I found some Phyllo tart shells on sale a while back and bought them without knowing just what I was going to make with them. And then I remembered my friend Debi and the great Stuffed Grape Leaves she showed us how to make. Well, that day we also made some Baklava and since there was a bunch of Phyllo dough scraps left over, Debi made some Spanakopita tarts. And they
Every month it's the same, an astounding variety of dishes and not only variety but deliciousness abounds. This month there was such a gracious bounty I wasn't able to taste it all.I do want to say Thank You to Cheryl-Ann, Quinn and Doug for hosting our monthly get-togethers, we do appreciate them.We had a crowd this month, and quite frankly some of the dishes were gone by
It's that time of the month again, time for the Secret Recipe Club reveal. Yup.A bunch of daring bloggers get assigned a blog and have to make and blog a recipe from their assigned blog. You just never know who's going to get your blog or which one you will be assigned. My assignment this month was Satisfy My Sweet Tooth, which I have to say was a challenge of sorts.
I'm not real fond of sweet desserts but I am helpless, when it comes to Baklava. I simply cannot resist it. If I see it on the menu somewhere, I'll order it, or torture myself with " I shoulda/coulda had that" if I don't get it. I love nuts, human and otherwise.And where I am going with this? Well, a few months back, when Debi Jordan was kind
So much food, so little time, lol. Just kidding, I think.I've been wanting to try these for awhile now. Kale Chips that is, and when I found myself with a gracious abundance the other day I decided I had to make some. Not only had I bought a little bunch of Kale last week, a friend brought me another bunch the other day and I decided it was time. I wanted to make some Grønlangkål, with th
It was Tapas Night again this week, and I made Tarteletter med Kylling og Svampe og Asparagus. OK, so it's Patty Shells with Chicken, Mushroom and Asparagus filling, if you insist on a translation. And according to this website Danes are known to consume 40 million tartaletter (patty shells) a year. And I can believe it. There are
It was a wet and stormy night, gee, where have I heard that one before? Hmmmm... But as usual, great food, and good company and interesting conversations.Even though it's a Tapas night, we got soup and salads and nibbles and basically great food. Let me leave you with an overview of the dishes... Beet and Sweet Potato Chips. Gluten Free and really tasty. Pros
Guess what we had for dinner last night? Yup, Chicken Pot Pie. I bet you guessed from the title of this post, didn't ya?And of course I did it the easy way, used all kinds of shortcuts. Well, except for poaching the chicken, but I needed to make some for the freezer anyway. So I threw a few chicken breasts into the pot, added celery, carrots, onion, black pepper and
Sometimes it's just plain fun to make something retro. Well, I think it is. Cherry Cream Cheese Pinwheels are about as retro as you can get. A few years ago, I was with one of my sisters when she instructed one of my nieces on the fine points of making these little pinwheels. They're a "60's" or maybe even "50's" type of canape, but oh so much fun to
I was tossing around ideas on what to make for our Boat Club Potluck this month and narrowed it down to three choices. However, I didn't want to make something I'd made before. Cause gee, what's the fun in that? So I'm looking in my pantry, searching my freezer and pulling my hair out trying to figure it out. I had some lovely Hoagie rolls in the freezer, as well as some chicken and th
Since it's February and Valentines day is just a couple of days away, there was a surfeit of sweet offerings at our February Boat Club Potluck. Just like last year and the year before. I thought seriously of making something sweet as well, but decided to just stick with something savoury. Well mostly savoury. I made some cream cheese pinwheels as
