Mar 31, 2016 | book reviews, bookshelf, reviews
title: A Curious History of Food and Drink author: Ian Crofton publication date: October 23, 2013 publisher: Quercus This book is for all those food lovers who are ever eager to hear about new, strange, and wonderful dishes. — Ian Crofton (A Curious History of...
Mar 7, 2016 | authors, bookshelf
I connected with Jill last year when I discovered her two cookbooks – Mad About Macarons and Teatime in Paris on Twitter (as a macaron lover, you KNOW I had to have a copy of her books!). After corresponding via email for several months, I’m happy to say...
Feb 16, 2016 | book reviews, bookshelf, reviews
title: Teatime in Paris! A Walk Through Easy French Patisserie Recipes author: Jill Colonna publication date: July 1, 2015 publisher: Waverley Books As a busy working mum, my kind of French baking has to be easy, tasty, pretty and inexpensive to reproduce at home. In...
Feb 11, 2016 | beyond the kitchen, personal
Ok, so I’m a little late to the celebrations, but I just wanted to wish everyone who is celebrating a very happy Lunar New Year! May the Year of the Monkey bring you lots of happiness, laughter, luck, prosperity, and of course, good eats! Oh and good health....
Jan 19, 2016 | book reviews, bookshelf, reviews
title: Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee author: Hattie Ellis publication date: April 25, 2006 publisher: Broadway Books It is closer to the truth to say that bees perform an act of alchemy. Honey is nothing less than concentrated nectar; and...
Jan 8, 2016 | in the kitchen, products, reviews
Back in late November, my sister and I decided to make our Christmas family dinner as simple of an ordeal as possible. Since my mom is still recovering from her stroke, large events and undertakings tire her out, so our plan was to purchase as many of the dishes as...
Dec 25, 2015 | personal
I’ll be busy eating, drinking and generally just enjoying myself silly with friends and family, and I hope you will be too! I want to wish all of you the very best of the holiday season!
Dec 14, 2015 | books, bookshelf
This past year was a little bit light in terms of cookbook purchases for me. The main reason? I’m running out of room! But rest assured, 2016 will be different – Paul has promised to build me a wall of bookshelves just to house my books! Hooray! In the...
Dec 1, 2015 | in the kitchen
Welcome to the FOURTH ANNUAL KITCHEN FROLIC COOKIE RECIPE ADVENT CALENDAR! Due to lots of personal things happening lately, this blog has taken a back seat (I promise, things will pick up in the new year!) and I didn’t have the time I needed to put together my...
Oct 13, 2015 | book reviews, bookshelf, reviews
title: Relish author: Lucy Knisley publication date: April 2, 2013 publisher: First Second I’m lucky to have grown up with cooks and bakers, eaters and critics, and meals to remember. My memories were formed in conjunction with my palate, collected along with...
Sep 18, 2015 | beyond the kitchen, events
One of the great things about being a food lover in Toronto is that there are so many food events going on in and around the city (and by “so many” I mean, like, a gajillion). The only problem is that there are great ones, good ones, and bad ones…...
Aug 31, 2015 | beyond the kitchen, events
On August 20, Paul and I were part of a group of bloggers invited to the Encore Food with Elegance head office for an Encore Blogger Bites Tasting Event. A full-service caterer, Encore is a family-owned business that was established in 1979 and has catered over 40,000...
Aug 25, 2015 | authors, bookshelf
I recently read Monica’s A Life of Spice and fell in love with her writing (you can read my full review here). Besides being a wonderful food essay writer, Monica also is a published (non-food) author and a cookbook author, and has written for many well-known...
Aug 19, 2015 | book reviews, bookshelf, reviews
title: Cookbook Book author: Annahita Kamali and Florian Böhm publication date: November 3, 2014 publisher: Phaidon Press Recipes in a great cookbook…are the recommendations of one real person that compiled his secrets into a single book…Like a great...
Aug 13, 2015 | gadgets, in the kitchen, reviews
brand: Weber gadget: Q1200 MRSP: $250.00 CAD available for purchase: major retailers across Canada and the US that sell BBQ products, including Home Depot (Canada and US), Lowes Canada, Ontario Gas BBQ, Amazon and Amazon Canada. the first nibble: This past February,...
