Creative Cooking Crew: We’re going on a picnic and I’m bringing Gravlax

I just love a pot-luck. Don’t you? And with the great summer weather approaching it would be even better to take this feast outside . I have a vision of a checkered table cloth lying on the grass, a few chilled bottles of wine and an magical array of delicious dishes. The Creative Cooking Crew [...]

Creative Cooking Crew: Brie Brazil Balls and Lentil Loaf Tapiocas with a Brazilian Salsa

Thank you for all the kind and encouraging words from everyone last week following my dad’s bypass surgery. He is doing great and he was released from the hospital, able to come back home, yesterday. We now enter a hopefully steady recuperation road.

The new Creative Cooking Crew hosts really seem to have racked their [...]

Creative Cooking Crew: Candied Bacon and Apple Halva with Maple Gastrique

I am sure I have mentioned this before but just in case, I do not really watch cooking shows. So don’t say to me :have you heard of the latest crazy chef “enter name here”? Chances are you will be the first to tell me. I like cooking shows but I have trouble keeping full [...]

CCC: Cured Pork with Caramelized Apples on a bead of Potato Paillasson

Welcome to the second Creative Cooking Crew challenge. The theme of our first round was vegan, so when it was announced that this month’s theme was meat and potatoes…I thought that was a bit of a sarcastic choice. Opposites attract right? Well I have to say it left me really uninspired at first. I spent [...]