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 [...]
Posts under ‘summer’
BlogBQ
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 [...]
Green bull energy drink
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 [...]
Charcut gets Scrapped
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 [...]
Stampede shirt
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 [...]
rad hot, hot-rod radishes
There’s a fiery bunch of nostril-flaring demons cruisin’ into town for the summer. They come in all shapes and sizes from white-hot icicles to deceptively burnsome watermelon colours. The one thing these radical roots all have in common is their ability to melt your face with their peppery bite. Behind their firey front, there’s some [...]
les beans et les wieners
Beans, beans, like a piece of fine art, the more you eat, the more you… get a wider appreciation for finer things. The more you broaden your palate, the better you feel, so let’s have beans for every meal. These beans are as at home on the range as they are in a fancy-pants restaurant. [...]
Handy plum pies (plumpies)
Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating a handy pie He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum And said ‘What a good boy am I!’ linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;
BLT Kama Sutra
Today’s the deadline for the Michael Ruhlman BLT from Scratch Summertime challenge in which people attempt to grow their own tomatoes and lettuce, bake their own bread, cure their own pork belly and whip up some sort of emulsified sauce. All in the abbreviated name of building the ultimate version of the ultimate sandwich. Sadly, [...]
Quickie pickles
Fun times on Breakfast TV Calgary this morning with Andy and Susanne. Demo’ed how to make Carrot and Ginger quickie pickles from Kitchen Scraps and talked about some other pickling. We also paired the pickles with some great cheeses and cured meats from Janice Beaton Fine Cheese. But first here is the fast and loose ratio [...]
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