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  • Recipe Toasted Pita with Spring Radish and European Butter
    Toasted Pita with Spring Radish and European Butter
    The idea came of a recent meal at Duo in Denver , what's shocking to me is I generally don't have much of a liking for radishes but Duo woke me up to this flavor pairing. From gastronomic guesswork The pitas were cut, toasted at 350F[...]
  • Recipe Two Black Anise Licorice recipes
    Two Black Anise Licorice recipes
    Black Licorice 2 c. cane sugar 1 1/2 c. Lyles Golden Syrup 1 c. sweetened -condensed milk 1 c. butter dash of salt 1 Tbsp. anise oil or about 2 to 3 Tbsp. anise extract Cook at 232 degrees. Stir constantly. Do not wash sides of[...]
  • Recipe Apricot Vanilla Jam
    Apricot Vanilla Jam
    Its been a long while since I made a jam last! We have started enjoying other breakfast items which don’t call for jam a lot hence I was not in a dire need to make some at home. For the rare occasion we needed Jam, a small store bought[...]
  • Recipe Chocolate Dobos Torte
    Chocolate Dobos Torte
    Or more appropriately... How to give new life to an over-baked flourless chocolate cake. The story started off with the best of intentions. The plan was to make a luscious flourless chocolate cake for one of my colleagues who recently[...]
  • Recipe Irish Coffee Macarons
    Irish Coffee Macarons
    An Ode to The Buena Vista Cafe 's Irish Coffee. The best tasting Irish Coffee! The next best thing... Irish Coffee Macarons of course! Don't know what dessert to make for your St. Patrick's Day celebration? Well if[...]
  • Recipe Wheat Couscous Patties
    Wheat Couscous Patties
    Sometimes it can indeed get boring and monotonous to make the same things again and again. But by making  few changes, either by way of adding new ingredients, adopting a different cooking process or something as simple as changing the way the[...]
  • Recipe Lentil and Bean ?Meatloaf?
    Lentil and Bean ?Meatloaf?
    I received a recipe request from a dear reader ‘Neha Vaswani’ for a vegetarian alternative to the classic meat loaf recipe. I had never made a loaf per se which did not involve flour or a wholegrain in a prominent role. So set[...]
  • Recipe Dark Chocolate Banana Filled Berliner
    Dark Chocolate Banana Filled Berliner
    A very good friend of mine originally from the Czech Republic, who recently moved from California back to Canada (Toronto) suggested I give these a try. She and her husband are quite the Gourmets... every single time we had dinner at their[...]
  • Recipe Pistachio² + White Chocolate Macarons
    Pistachio² + White Chocolate Macarons
    OK, only a few days left before St. Patrick's Day so I thought I would share a somewhat green dessert (I tried...). And since I want to keep newly learned macaron making skills sharp I decided it would be another Macaron recipe. You don't mind do[...]