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Comfort Food for the Flu: Chicken Noodle Soup
I’ve come down with the flu. Unbelievable. Yesterday, I was hale and hearty, eating cupcakes and drinking too much coffee. Now, I can’t even taste these chocolate-chip cookies. I rarely get sick. Despite the evils of the food I eat, … Continue reading
Food and Cooking Myths 1
Do you know that method of testing if pasta is cooked by throwing a piece of it at your kitchen wall? Supposedly, if the pasta is cooked, it sticks to the wall. If it slides off, it’s underdone. I read … Continue reading
A Recipe for Roast Chicken with Lemongrass
I love all poultry. Chicken is my favourite kind of meat, particularly whole chickens that have been roasted until they’ve got that crisp, crackly, well-browned skin, succulent white meat glistening with all of its sizzling juices. You’ll have to pardon … Continue reading
Arthur and His Knights Ate – Medieval Cooking
Way before Roger Federer posed for the Disney Portraits and Celine Dion sang “The Prayer” for the animated movie Camelot, the legends on the famous King Arthur and his infamous Knights of the Round Table already held a certain fascination … Continue reading
Chili-Garlic Chinese Fried Rice
Chinese fried rice is best made with day-old, long-grain rice. Crumble the rice with your fingers to separate the grains – this retains the flavours from the other ingredients you’ll be adding, it makes it easier to mix everything together … Continue reading
