
Nectarine and Bocconcini Salad
Sweet and savoury Nectarine and Bocconcini Salad. A vivid taste of summer with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, nectarines and basil served
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Sweet and savoury Nectarine and Bocconcini Salad. A vivid taste of summer with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, nectarines and basil served

Brush with garlic butter, grill to a crispy golden brown, add a hint of lemon and you’ve created a contemporary

Whenever you take your favourite sandwich and make it smaller, it automatically becomes more fun! Perfect party bites that say

One of our top party food bites from our time together in the professional kitchen, the Mini Chorizo Pogo, or

Yes. I said beer and wings in the same sentence, I mean what goes better with beer than wings? And

From our Tastes of Summer menu, the Grilled Vegetable Halloumi & Hummus Hoagie, great grilled flavour on a Meatless Monday.

This week we had the same vegetarian meal, twice in a row – by request rather than coercion. We call that a hit and

It’s cold. We’ve got snow up the wazoo and here comes Valentine’s Day. For my money nothing says love quite

The making of foie gras is a simple, though messy process. The fattened liver is soft and breaks apart easily,

The secret to beautiful Asian Spring Rolls is the art of the perfect roll. These are a rice paper version; bright, fresh and packed with flavor, the deep fried variety features the same rolling technique with a different wrapper. Once you have this down you’re a spring-rolling machine.

After last week’s post on Salade Nicoise, we take a merry little detour to Pain Bagnat (literally translated: Wet Bread) which is that same Salade Nicoise, layered in a day-old sourdough roll, wrapped tight, put in the cooler overnight and the back of the car in the morning for the perfect picnic a la Provencal.

This week we join the many voices celebrating what would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday in August of this year, with JC100. Starting with Salade Nicoise, from Child’s The Way to Cook, a light, fresh garden salad from the south of France.
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