Dark Chocolate Brownie Bowls Filled with Orange Mousse
Orange and chocolate is a time-honoured combination for a reason—it’s delicious. This combination involves a rich dark chocolate brownie bowl filled with creamy orange mousse. The brownies are made with extra dark cocoa and baked in a special-purpose pan from...
Ginger Rhubarb Coffee Cake
It’s late spring, and with spring comes rhubarb. Alleluia! The trick with rhubarb is to cook it with sufficient sugar for a short enough time to take the edge off the tartness without making the fruit mushy. In this recipe, the rhubarb is macerated (making it...
Green and Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Prosciutto
The combination of sugar snap and English peas is crunchy and satisfying. Peppery notes of arugula with salty prosciutto add a savoury element to what would traditionally be a light spring salad. As good quality frozen peas and fresh sugar snap peas are readily...
Chicken Club Pita
When it’s too hot to even contemplate turning on the oven, a rotisserie chicken is a chef’s best friend. Sliced and served with a multitude of vegetables and some spicy mayonnaise between layers of pita bread, you have a perfect hand-held meal-in-one. This...
Cherry Blossom Cake
Our neighbour’s flowering cherry tree is just breaking into bloom. For a few glorious days, its graceful branches festooned with pink blossoms toss in the wind, beguiling us with their beauty. (I will skip over the subsequent unholy mess of disintegrating petals...Follow Us
