Posts by The Culinary Chase

The city of Halifax, Nova Scotia has 283,000 people however, the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) swells to 403,188 to include Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, Lower Sackville, Cole Harbour.   For such a small city we are blessed to have attracted a slew of quality restaurateurs where the owners and chefs happily promote locally grown produce.  Many…

There are some desserts you know are going to taste delicious. When I first saw the photo of this sweet dish that Renée Lavallée posted on her website, Feisty Chef,  I knew I had to try it.  This recipe is from Renée’s momma.  Renée said, “it was named Welfare Pudding because back in the day…

Inspiration for me doesn’t always come from a cookbook or glossy food magazine.  Grocery stores are also a good source of recipes and what’s more, they’re free!  Sobeys produces a quarterly magazine highlighting their brands and the recipes are developed by their own dieticians.  Each recipe contains nutritional information making it easier for those counting…

The nursery rhyme, The Muffin Man, was first recorded in 1820 in Britain. Victorian households had many of their fresh foods delivered and muffins would be delivered door-to-door by a muffin man. The muffin in question was the bread product known in much of the English-speaking world today as English muffins, not the much sweeter…

My husband and I love to entertain and we spend time thinking about the menu, what wine to serve, the music, the table settings, centerpieces and all the other little details that go into making a wonderful evening.  We also encourage our friends and family to gather around the kitchen as I’m often putting the…

MOLÉCULE-R Inc. sent me their Molecular Gastronomy Kit and it wasn’t until yesterday that I was able to make anything from it. I fell 8 weeks ago and fractured the radial head in my elbow and a bone in my wrist which meant a cast on for 4 weeks making delicate cooking almost impossible to…

Well that’s what Jamie Oliver says and after making these I have to agree with him!  I love using onions but for the most part they’re usually mixed in with other ingredients so it’s nice to have them shine on their own.  Onions, are members of the Allium family (garlic, shallot, scallion), and are rich…

Our first foray into volunteer work was when we lived in Hong Kong.  My husband and I started taking our 12 year old daughter to Po Leung Kuk (Society for the Protection of Women and Children).  We would go there once a month on Sunday to play with the children ages 1 year to 2…