We knew it would be hard to beat last year’s amaaaaazing Whisky Fig Cranberry Sauce….but we think we’ll do our Thanksgiving Dinner proud with this Ginger Cognac number. You start out by making the beginnings of a ginger syrup…simmering bits of ginger in sugar and water or cider. Then, you pop in your cranberries, and, […]
If you’re going to make your own cranberry sauce, you might as well make it worth the effort. We’re always trying something different for our annual Thanksgiving feast. This time, I was inspired by one of my favourite fall cocktails: Apple Cider & Fireball Canadian Whisky [Cinnamon Whisky]. We just went apple picking, so there’s plenty of cider on hand. And […]
We’ve got three recipes on the go today: Mrs. Houghston’s Famous Irish Soda Farls Lime-Berry Limerick Lower-Sugar Jam & Popping “Pot o’ Gold” Mustard Mrs. Houghston’s Famous Irish Soda Farls Mrs. Houston is the housekeeper in the story I wrote for the kids this week, A Study in Emerald, (we’re currently reading Chapter Three). She prepares her […]
December 11th, 2011 15th Day of Advent 14 Days ‘til Christmas “CHRISTMASSIFY” YOUR CANNED GOODS REMEMBER ALL OF THOSE CANNED GOODS YOU MADE OVER THE COURSE OF OUR SUMMER OF FUNNER ? ALL THE MUSTARDS AND JELLIES AND PICKLES AND JAMS YOU JARRED, OR “PUT UP,” YOUR GREAT “PLUNDER?” REMEMBER, AS WELL, THOSE TWO BEAUTIFUL PICTURES YOU DESIGNED FOR […]
Thou Shalt Not Over-Step the Bounds of Foraging?…Think again. Over the summer, Bea and I went down to the lakefront to gather Staghorn Sumac berries for our special Jelly and Ice Cream Day. We ended up oversteeping those berries, thus cancelling our plans to make jelly with them. As Nathalie Foy pointed out in a recent post on foraging, there’s nothing like […]
