Easy dry salt-cured olives and olive salt
Dry cured olives for entertaining and family dinners My favourite olives both to make and to eat are dry cured. These are so easy to… Read More »Easy dry salt-cured olives and olive salt
Gayle Hurmuses
Frozen & preserved food & power outages
The first power outage of the season hit us during a windstorm on Friday night when the transformer across the road exploded. There’s nothing worse… Read More »Frozen & preserved food & power outages
Brine Curing Black Olives
Additional heading Olives are so simple to prepare and home-cured olives are so superior to commercial ones that it’s surprising that more people don’t line… Read More »Brine Curing Black Olives
Lemon Butter
This makes a wonderful hostess gift and as I’ll show in another later column, is nearly the same as making Hollandaise Sauce. There’s more to… Read More »Lemon Butter
In The Garden of Eatin’s
We moved just over a year ago to a two-acre on ALR (Agricultural Land Reserve) property with a view of the water in the distance.… Read More »In The Garden of Eatin’s
Chicken Liver Pate with Ice Wine
This pate is made with ice wine, but you could substitute port, sherry, or black currant jelly . About the ice wine
Tapenade with dried tomatoes, olives, garlic, and capers
For Olive Lovers This is a very easy black olive tapenade without anchovies that is a guaranteed pleaser at parties. Making tapenade the first time… Read More »Tapenade with dried tomatoes, olives, garlic, and capers
Sopa de Garbanzo
I moved to Toronto days before my 20th birthday. On my first morning there, I went for a walk along Queen Street West that took… Read More »Sopa de Garbanzo
Chocolate-covered candied orange peels, marmalade, and orange syrup
I love making one thing and having this create ingredients for other treats. Here, we take a bag of oranges, some sugar, brandy, chocolate, and… Read More »Chocolate-covered candied orange peels, marmalade, and orange syrup