Jun 6, 2013 | chicken & poultry, in the kitchen, main courses, pasta & noodles, products, recipes
Paul and I make our own tomato sauce all the time – in fact, we’ve never purchased tomato sauce before and we have bought pesto sauce, but mainly because fresh basil is expensive and for some reason, basil is the only plant that refuses to grow in our...
May 31, 2013 | chocolate, cupcakes & muffins, desserts & sweets, in the kitchen, new posts - in the kitchen, recipes
Both my brother-in-law, Dave, and my sister-in-law, Alex, answered with an emphatic “chocolate” when I asked them what flavour they wanted their birthday cupcakes to be. After a little more thought, Alex added that she wouldn’t mind Nutella cupcakes...
May 29, 2013 | beyond the kitchen, events
Last year, Paul and I attended the first ever Fresh Fest 2012 – the first time that the Ontario Food Terminal had been opened to the public. We had such a great time that I told my family, friends and co-workers all about it so that they could check it out this...
May 24, 2013 | chocolate, cupcakes & muffins, desserts & sweets, in the kitchen, new posts - in the kitchen, popular, recipes
I never gave my father-in-law a chance to choose his birthday cupcake flavour – it was always going to be Crown Royal cupcakes. You see, many years ago, when Paul and I were still dating, I gave a bottle of Crown Royal Canadian whisky to his dad for Christmas...
May 13, 2013 | in the kitchen, personal
Earlier this year, I had the crazy idea to bake cupcakes for each of my close family members on their birthday. But, not just any cupcakes – these were going to be special birthday cupcakes based on a flavour that was either requested by them or chosen by me...
May 5, 2013 | beyond the kitchen, eating out
I had seen Hot Bunzz (@HotBunzzTO) around on Twitter for awhile but our first taste of their buns was at the September 2012 Toronto Underground Market where their Beef Basil Thai bun was a hit with both Paul and myself. I’ve been stalking following Hot Bunzz on...
May 1, 2013 | beyond the kitchen, personal
365 days (actually, 366 since 2012 was a Leap Year) ago today, I posted my very first blog post here on kitchen frolic. In the span of a year, what started out as a tentative step into the world of food blogging has turned into lots of wonderful new opportunities,...
Apr 24, 2013 | in the kitchen
If you haven’t been able to tell from my blog, Twitter and Instagram feeds – I love macarons. A lot. Paul likes them well enough, but I ADORE them. I even managed to talk my sister, Suzie, into giving macarons out as her wedding favours just so I could eat...
Apr 17, 2013 | desserts & sweets, frozen treats, in the kitchen, recipes
One of our favourite discoveries when we travelled to Rome for the first time last year was the Tazza d’Oro, a small coffee shop that sits very close to the Pantheon. Being a famed coffee shop in Rome is no small feat and there were definitely some wonderful coffees...
Apr 5, 2013 | chocolate, drinks, in the kitchen, recipes
Pink peppercorns look like regular peppercorns and have a peppery flavour, but are not actually related to regular peppercorns. These pinkish-red dried berries can often be found in gourmet stores or bulk food stores (where I found my supply) and are sometimes even...
Mar 28, 2013 | in the kitchen, recipes
Sriracha is a hot sauce originating from Thailand that’s essentially a paste of chili peppers, distilled water, vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt. One popular version of Sriracha is produced by Huy Fong Foods, which has a rooster on its green-topped bottle, hence...
Mar 14, 2013 | in the kitchen, pork & bacon, recipes
Several months ago, I connected with Erin, the mastermind behind foodiepages.com – an “online farmer’s market” where you can “buy directly from Canada’s best food producers, farmers and artisans”. Erin had sent out a tweet...
Mar 1, 2013 | beef, in the kitchen, main courses, meat dishes, products, recipes
The next Summer Fresh sauce we tried…well, we didn’t exactly cook with it. You see, the Summer Fresh 3 Peppercorn sauce was the first one I pulled out of the box when it arrived and right away, Paul and I looked at each other and said “Steak!”...
Feb 28, 2013 | chicken & poultry, in the kitchen, pizza, products, recipes
I have always loved the saucy goodness of butter chicken. Especially on a bed of rice. There’s just something about the sauce that I can’t get enough of. So I was pretty excited to see that one of the sauces in the set that Summer Fresh sent me to try was...
Feb 26, 2013 | chicken & poultry, in the kitchen, main courses, pasta & noodles, products, recipes
Paul and I love doing stir-fry – it’s quick, healthy and uses up any random meats or vegetables that we have handy in the fridge and/or freezer. The Summer Fresh Thai Curry was a perfect complement to this soba noodles and vegetable stir-fry – it...
