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Grilled Chicken with Blueberry Sauce

Blueberries are usually for dessert, but this savoury blueberry sauce from Canadian Living is a wonderful complement to grilled chicken. Cook onion in oil for 5 minutes and then...

Potato, Artichoke and Green Bean Salad

This delicious potato salad from Real Simple tosses red potatoes, green beans, onion, artichoke hearts, tomatoes and parsley in a zingy lemon-mustard-caper dressing. Boil the potatoes until tender and...

Classic Pasta Salad

by Susan Hanna Pasta salads are a summer staple for us and this recipe from Chatelaine introduced me to a great tip: if you can, cook the pasta the night...

French Bistro Steak Salad

by Susan Hanna This lovely salad from Canadian Living features grilled steak and grilled green beans and radishes tossed in an herb-infused honey-mustard dressing. Be careful...

Gay Cook’s Fresh Salmon Cakes with Fresh Herb Dipping Sauce

by Gay Cook Served with fresh lightly cooked green beans and sliced ripe avocado and 1 or 2 tomatoes, sliced. Serves 2 or 3 1 lb...

Middle Eastern Vegetable Kebabs

by Susan Hanna   Serves 4. This Lucy Waverman recipe from Food and Drink features zhug – a Middle Eastern hot sauce that originates from the Yemeni...

Gay Cook’s Beef and Pork Meatballs or Bison Meatballs with Fresh Rhubarb Coulis

by Gay Cook Makes approx 60 balls 900g (1½lbs) ground beef/half pork or bison balls ¼ cup (60 ml) dried breadcrumbs or minced apple or...

Stir-fried Chicken and Vegetables

by Susan Hanna Serves 4. Stir-fries are a great way to get dinner on the table in a hurry. This chicken stir-fry from Bonnie Stern’s Simply...

The Good Food Tour

by Gay Cook  The Good Food Tour is a new, deliciously, exciting walking, adventure company. It takes place in the charming town of Almonte.  The...

Asparagus and Arugula Salad with Homemade Hoisin Vinaigrette

by Susan Hanna I was very excited to see this terrific recipe from Paris-based (and Canadian) professional cook Lina Caschetto in a recent edition of...

Gay Cook’s Cheese Soufflé Roulade with Spinach Filling

by Gay Cook  This is a melt in the mouth soufflé that is baked in a flat pan, filled and rolled, then served in slices....

Chicken Diavolo  

  by Susan Hanna This is a great recipe from Ruth Reichl’s terrific book My Kitchen Year. You can quarter a whole chicken or use chicken...

‘Good Food Tour’ launches in Almonte this month

The friendly town of Almonte – where movies are made and heritage Victorian buildings echo with charm – can now be explored in a...

Gay Cook’s Cheese Hamburgers with Sliced Onion and Tomatoes  

by Gay Cook   makes 4 burgers With the warm weather just around the corner, now is the time to think about the barbecue which includes hamburgers...

Ginger-miso Soba Salad

by Susan Hanna This refreshing salad from Canadian Living features a delicious miso dressing and soba noodles, which are made from buckwheat. This is a...

Gay Cook’s Banana Pancakes

by Gay Cook I accidently learnt a lesson when our home freezer held an abundance of overripe frozen bananas. I defrosted, peeled, pureed and...

Baked Lobster Tails with Tarragon Cream Sauce

by Susan Hanna I recently attended a cooking class, where the instructor made these delicious lobster tails, topped with a tarragon cream sauce. I couldn’t...

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