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 [...]
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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. [...]
Julie/Julia dinner party
Last week Julie (from Dinner with Julie) decided to host a Julie/Julia Dinner party for a handful of local food bloggers. We each brought something from Mastering the Art of French Cooking that we had prepared earlier. While we feasted Julia Child tutted about her kitchen as The French Chef reruns played in the background. linkscolor [...]
Michael Ruhlman’s Turkey Scraps…
Last week was Turkey Time down south in the US. To celebrate the Great Gobble, food-writer extraordinaire Michael Ruhlman (Ratio, Making of a Chef, French Laundry, Charcuterie, etc, etc) posted a very clever recipe for making stock with the turkey carcass, or chicken bones. I was really excited to get a chance to contribute to [...]
Evil Pumpkin Zombie soup
It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark… Evil Pumpkin Zombies! EPZ are brought to life when an evil Halloween spirit enters a carved pumpkin and awakens an unnaturally evil appetite for candy. The pumpkins will roll around attacking anyone for their candy! If you are threatened by an EPZ, you will [...]
chili served…
Well the final results are in for the chili cookoff and the winner is… Congratulations ROB COTE, running back for the Calgary Stampeders linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;
chili cookoff!
Tomorrow is the showdown for the chili cookoff! linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;
Chili con carnivore
Just like football, a chili cookoff is 62% mental, 22% physical and 13% intensity and 1% creativity. linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;
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