It’s a lifelong (okay adulthood anyway) quest that’s taken me to many a restaurant in search of the most delicious of crispy sweet potato fries. Easily achieved, albeit less heart healthy, when dipped in vats of boiling hot vegetable oil. It was with this realization that I let myself become defeated and settled on always […]
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I know a secret, do you? How about “The Secret”? I haven’t read it, but a have taken a glance through it’s pages while standing in a very busy book section at Costco, chewing on a delightfully free sample of Iso Protein bars. I get the gist. A riff on the “Field of Dreams” in
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I’m still not much for words right now, so I will leave you with a dish that I consider “ultimate” comfort food. To me, comfort food fits into two main categories, pub food like wings, burgers and fries and one dish meals, easily made at home. This is an at home variety. It can be
What is a sweet potato? Is it a yam? Are they two different things? Are they related somehow? Has the supermarket grocery chain in my neighbourhood swindled me with clever marketing? The latter would be correct. In today’s North American super markets, what is labeled a yam is indeed a sweet potato. More to the
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Sometimes I feel pretty lazy. On top of running around with my own toddler, I also watch another little girl three days a week. On top of those two crazy tornadoes, there’s also laundry, endless dishes, cleaning, writing, photographing and too much useless internet surfing to mention. There’s also the newly arrived protruding belly getting
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I’m gettin’ fancy pants today here in the Guiltiest Kitchen around. BUT, I am attempting to reduce the guilt, as usual. Sometimes, Mr. Guilty will be strolling through the meat department and out of the corner of his eye, he will catch a glimpse of something that must be had. Sometimes it is giant pork
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Mexican food? On Guilty Kitchen? No way! I know what you’re thinking. “Seriously, this woman has a problem, an obsession that needs to be dealt with immediately!” Well, calm down, will ya? I am not the only one in this house who loves a good Mexican feast! In fact, this wasn’t my idea at all,
Risotto, one of cooking’s greatest gifts to comfort food. For some reason, people have it in their head that making risotto is somehow difficult. Maybe it is watching too many episodes of Hell’s Kitchen, witnessing the torture each chef goes to to produce the finest in creamy, grainy goodness. Well, let’s shake that notion out
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Feeding a family and getting them to like everything that you like can be a challenge. As many mothers, wives, fathers, husbands and cooks know, that may be the understatement of the year. Pleasing everyone is impossible, yet getting them to eat what’s in front of them might not be. Often, as the family on
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So, I am trying to be good. I am trying to eat more seasonal this week, and in the process, I am being bad. When I wrote out my recipe ideas for this week, this particular recipe seemed perfectly healthy. Then I started making it. I think there must be 1/4 cup of butter in
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