Posts under ‘scraps’

Quickles

Sep 1st, 2010

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 [...]

Charcut’s facade lift

Jul 6th, 2010

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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. linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; [...]

Charcut gets Scrapped

Jul 4th, 2010

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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 [...]

8 kinds of mayo, 8 kinds of good times

Jun 15th, 2010

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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 [...]

Calgary Food Blogger Bake sale

Jun 15th, 2010

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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 [...]

cutting edge knife

Apr 29th, 2010

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Check out the finish on my new Masakage knife. No one else has this knife… yet. linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;

Surprise!

Apr 27th, 2010

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That’s me turning 30 (or as I like to call it ‘half-dead’) with a bemused/doumbfounded expression. linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;

Bitchin’ Kitchen

Apr 8th, 2010

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There’s a wicked new show on Food Network Canada starring that web-savvy slick Italian chick Nadia G from web-famous Bitchin’ Kitchen. She’s been something of a newage web chefleb in recent years who made the leap to television. The transition to tv happened last week and it was seamless. Her quirky idioms are a fresh [...]