If you missed quick pickles on Breakfast TV this morning, here’s what you missed….
We made Pear and clove, Peach and ginger, Prune and spices, Sweet peppers and rosemary.
Quick pickles are a fast way to get pickle flavour without having to break out your grannies rusty canning equipment. These are not a true preserving pickle, but they will last for 2-3 weeks in your fridge and they are super easy to make in small batches so it won’t feel like a hassle to whip up a bunch.
The simple ratio is easy to adjust to suit your taste whether you crave salty pickles, sweet pickles or extra sour pickles. Plus you don’t have to limit your choice of pickling items to cucumbers. There are tonnes of yummy fruits and veggies just begging to be a quickie pickle. Continue reading →
Posted in: breakfast, press, scraps, snack, summer, with a hand.
It was touch and go for a while. But eventually most of the local food bloggers managed to creep away from the safety of the computer glow to gather in Edworthy Park on Sunday afternoon.
With big forest fire clouds looming overhead it was hard to tell if the BBQ would get rained out. But the weather held and the nice over cast sky made for perfect food shot lighting. Snap, snap, snap…
Thanks to Vincci from Ce ci n’est pas un food blog for organising the event and for all the food bloggers who showed up under suspicious weather. It was lovely to see the assortment of nibbles on offer.
Posted in: summer, with a fork.
Sweet and sassy Cassis
Cassis (French for Currants) is a dazzling vision of beauty when she’s sparkling at a poncy party decked out with clusters of opalescent white pearls, luminescent red rubies and deep black jewels. She is refined and sophisticated in the form of a jelly or syrup in a creamy dessert or a sparkling cocktail. While she can be light on her toes, this sassy vixen can also contend with the beastly heavy-footed game meats. Continue reading →
Posted in: SWERVE, sweets, with a spoon.
Posted in: breakfast, press.
Cowboys eat unhealthy stacks of flap jacks while their adversaries eat green, stay lean and get mean. There isn’t much a competition if the cowboy only has to stay on for 8 seconds. If you want to get the big bull advantage you’ll need to step your game up with one of these detox shakes before (or after) Stampede. Get the steer out of your rear and get it in gear. Continue reading →
Posted in: SWERVE, breakfast, snack, spring, summer.
The urban cowboy landscape of Calgary’s downtown core is speckled with the usual run-of-the-mill Stampede window paintings. Except for Charcut…
Piggy-up cowboy and mosey down to Charcut to see these inspired Stampede windows while you munch on some Pig’s head mortadella or some real pork rinds.
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Posted in: scraps.
Somehow I got wrangled into doing some Stampede window paintings.
I’ve never done window paintings before. So I was nervous to take on the job of painting the massive windows at my favourite Calgary eaterie Charcut. It’s not nervous-excited, it’s nervous-poop-my-pants…
What happens if they suck, what happens when they don’t wash off and they need to replace the glass, what happens when I’m banned from the restaurant and can’t eat the house-made merguez sausage and saffron tomato or the Pig-head mortadella?
The paint will hit the window tomorrow. Swing by and you’ll see me with brush in shaky hand trying my best to transcribe these sketches onto the windows of Charcut.
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Posted in: scraps, summer.
The Calgary Stampede is thundering this way for another 10 days of crazy cowboy shenanigans. Expect to see lots of cowboy hats, pancakes and livestock… plus some farm animals.
The krazy kids over at Knifewear have come up with a wonderfully offensive shirt of a horse with all the cuts written in Japanese and Cheval (the French word for Horse) in the bottom corner. I like it!
The box of limited edition shirts arrives on July 8, just in time for the July 9 start of the Stampede.
Pick one up for $20 … seriously Kevin? Only 20 bucks?
Posted in: press, summer.
Sometimes the best ideas hit you when you are stumbling drunk.
So when the Breakfast TV crew drunk-texted and asked me to come on the show to make French Fries and Mayonnaise I knew they would probably need liquoring up again for the Mayo show.
I arrived at 5:30 am to a round of drinking games (every time a C-train passes, you take a shot) and after an invigorating brawl outside (won by Rob) we whipped up a batch of fries and mayonnaise to soak up the excess. Andrew gets pretty grabby when he tips back a few…
I joke, I joke… sort of.
Here’s the clip. Continue reading →
Posted in: press, scraps, snack.
There’s a bake sale this weekend in Calgary at 148 10 Ave NW (Old Ant Hill Fabrics building). Sat, June 19th 10am-6pm and Sun, June 20th from 11am-5pm.
Not only will you be able to pick up some primo baked goodies, you’ll also be able to meet some of your favourite local Calgarian Food bloggers as we take turns running the booth.
I’ll be there on Saturday from 2pm to 4pm… which is a perfect time to pick up something sweet before you head home for teatime. If you make it down at other times, you’re sure to meet some of my buddies Julie from Dinner with Julie, Cheryl from Backseat Gourmet, Lauren from Celiac Teen and event organiser Vincci from Ceci n’est pas un food blog.
And the table will be packed with offerings from more than a dozen Calgary food bloggers like Calgary Restaurant Examiner, The Celiac Husband, Chocolate & Ginger, ChowTown, The Crazy Kitchen, Dan’s Good Side, Eat in Calgary, Food Mamma, I Love Alberta Beets, Live, Love, Laugh, EAT!!!, Scrumptiously Fit Food, Vegedible, Vlad’s Gonzo Food Blog.
I’ll be making some cheeky little Flower Pot Brownies baked in adorable little flower pots. Before you rush down for the wrong reasons you should know that there is no actual ‘greenery’ in this recipe.
The recipe will be here Sunday, but if you want to try them before that come down and grab pick one up… I’m only going to have a cool dozen up for grabs and they’ll go fast so get on down…
Posted in: scraps, with a hand.
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