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Batch #2 of pastry led to my first attempt at the all Canadian butter tart. Well, sort of a modded butter tart, as there were no raisins because we have a kid who hates them. I used the recipe I found at JoyofBaking.com and while the filling went together easily, I was not at all [...]
Regular readers know that a large part of my media efforts involves cars, but we don’t often get a chance to bring the car vibe to FAB. That guy up above is extreme sport superstar, Ken Block, who drives a Ford Focus in the World Rally Cup. Block’s friends threw him a surprise party in [...]
With an upcoming food media project looming on the horizon, I need to get my pastry skills up to snuff. I decided that a nice meat pie would be a good first tester. I began doing a bit of reading to see what others are doing with their meat pies. I came across this post [...]
Like many people, I love great puff pastry. I just have never had the knack for making it. While I remember my Mom and Grandmother making great pastry when I was a kid, when I started cooking I was never happy with the results so I just didn’t make it. Over the past couple of [...]
Despite what you might garner from the title, no we are not aging salmon here in the FAB Whitby kitchen. What you see to the left is part of last night’s dinner, as created by 12 year old Duncan.
The good folks at Beer and Butter Tarts have launched the 2010 Canadian Food Blog Awards to rank and honor Canadian food and drink writers who work on the web. Nominations can now be made in 17 different categories. 16 of those categories will be judged by a panel of Canadian food media celebs including [...]
While digging in the freezer the other day, I found a broken package containing 2 now freezer burnt t-bones. They were burnt to the point that they weren’t salvageable as steaks, but there is no way I’m going to throw away a couple of t-bones! Solution? Make stock! So I filled the stock pot with [...]
Pairing wines with personalities for gift shoppers—there’s a Canadian app for that (and a web site) November 18, 2010 — “Wine is one of the few presents that makes both the giver and the receiver look good,” says Natalie MacLean, the red-nosed e-sommelier behind nataliemaclean.com, Canada’s largest wine web site. “You look like you spent [...]
While rummaging through the freezer, trying to get some ideas for dinner tonight, I came across a bottle of Smirnoff’s Vanilla Vodka and an idea popped into my head. Not only did my mixology idea work, a sip revealed that the icy beverage was actually a liquid version of a Creamsicle. Into a shaker filled [...]
When we were planning our Moink Balls meal, we took a visit to Costco and picked up a gigantic bag of meat balls. There were so many in the bag, we had 2 full baking sheets of Moinks, 7 meatball sandwiches and still had a bunch left over. We decided to go hunting for a [...]
