Category: Cooking
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Wheat-free Rice Crust Pizza
A couple of weeks ago I had a very cool collaboration with Minute Rice and they helped me run a giveaway of some Minute Rice. During that collaboration I received a few recipes from Chef John Higgins on how to use Minute Rice and this wheat-free rice crust pizza is one of those recipes. This…
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The Simple Way to Make Candied Bacon
If you want a simple way to make candied bacon, watch and learn from my video. Sure, you could make a brine with a bunch of complicated ingredients and use a fancy brush to coat the bacon all while taking it in and out of the oven and brushing and coating each strip of the…
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How to Bake Beets
For no good reason I bought a great big bag of grown in BC beets. So what do you do with a great big bag of beets? Well, if you are like me, you run an experiment. Rather than having them boil and splatter the top of my stove and make a grand old…
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Minute Rice Cooking Tips from Chef John Higgins
While I was tuned into the webcast with Chef John Higgins, Director of Toronto-based George Brown Chef School – Canada’s leading chef school and one of the top culinary schools in North America, I made notes on some of his rice cooking tips – tips that work equally well for cooking Minute Rice. In no particular order…
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Mustard and Preventing Leg Cramps
This blog post isn’t so much about food as it is about how I use a certain for preventing leg cramps. But to back up a little, I used to get excruciatingly painful leg cramps. Leg cramps that made me hop around in agony as I tried to stretch to get the cramp out of…
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Spring Aspargus
I simply love this time of the year because of the fresh asparagus that we can access. Admittedly, it is not local and it is brought to us from Mexico or California, but I still love it. To cook my aspargus I turn our Titanium Exclusive sauté pan to high and let it get hot.…
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Experimenting in the Test Kitchen
Although I have not been posting here for the last few days I have been eating, cooking and experimenting in the Eating in the Burbs test kitchen. We have been experimenting with a variety of gluten-free recipes and even some true Paleo-style cooking ideas – truly amazing what you can do with Paleo cooking!! Tomorrow…
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Gluten-Free Brazilian Cheese Breads
My Mom made these cool little cheese breads – cheese breads that are gluten-free and yet still full of flavour!! Once again, these are so easy to make that it is almost ridiculous. The best way to mix together the ingredients for these cheese breads is in a blender. However if you’re one of the…
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Which Cooking Oil to Use
Earlier in January I found this very cool blog post on, not surprisingly, a very cool blog and now, with their permission, I am sharing some of their post here with you. From deep-fried foods to healthy salads, cooking oils play a part in the flavor profile and healthiness of many meals. With such a…