Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Welcome to the new Daily Unadventures in Cooking.  This transition has been coming for awhile, and I expect there will still be some hiccups so please bear with me.
Some of the new features I am hoping to have going forward is more dynamic recipe archives which should improve find-ability since I am not updating them [...]

2009 was a great year for home cooking, and these are some of my favorite recipes.

No new recipes today, I am spending today with my family.  I just wanted to thank you for reading this little site.  I love writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it.
Happy HolidaysKaterina

I love holidays that are centered around food and family but I have never hosted a Thanksgiving dinner before. Always eager to learn, I decided to ask some of my favorite foodie writers what tips they have for cooking a successful thanksgiving dinner.

Fall is my absolute favorite time of year and it is the perfect season to spend a bit of extra time in the kitchen. Below are 5 things I love to cook in the Autumn, and I want your help to find more!

Make Homemade Chicken Stock or Broth.
If you have never made your [...]

Ten days ago I was lucky enough to get invited to go to Toronto for the weekend for some education about local food, Hellmans‘ and their Eat Real Eat Local Campaign. More about that on another day. The big perk of the trip was getting the opportunity to meet an array of fellow [...]

It appears as though I killed my dill.

I am currently skimming Jillian Michael’s newest book because, well, I have a bit of a girl crush on her and I saw it at the library. One thing I learned while reading it on the bus this morning was the breakdown on the numeric codes found on fruit stickers. The key [...]

I consider myself someone who likes to eat local. But even in stating that, I think I have to define what local means to me. Firstly, I like eating things produced in my immediate area. When we are at the cabin, one of the biggest perks is buying crab off the boat, short [...]

Trying to get it together for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge was really hard. I kept having it all planned out and then something would get in my way, not the least of which was our big power outage.
So the days kept passing me by until this past weekend when I got home on [...]

I have returned safe and sound. Although I am suffering from minor jet lag, a bit of a tummy bug and a minor desire not to work I have returned to my regular life.I don’t have time at the moment for a full report but here is the quick version of Shanghai. In my experience [...]

There are lots of great things about having a blog, one of which is the occasional freebie – my first in fact. I was contacted about 6 weeks ago to see if I was interested in sampling and posting on some Canadian based spice blends from the Spice Depot. The stipulations from [...]

My new discovery, my new craving, my new addiction. I am certainly not the first to fall in love with these beautifully constructed little dumplings and I won’t be the last. These are a specific Shanghai specialty called XiaoLongBao or Xiao Long Bao. The secret, or specialty is a dumpling that not only [...]

Well, I am off early tomorrow for a week in Shanghai. I plan to spend the weekend touring and eating and then during the week I will be working, so it should be pretty quiet around here.

I couldn’t be more excited to be hosting the 100th edition of Weekend Herb Blogging. I have never hosted an event before so this is truly an honour. I had a lot of fun reading all the posts and compiling them all into this list. The vast array of ingredients as well as [...]

I remember being infatuated with the library when I was around 10 or so. I was a bit of a nerdy bookworm and I remember going to the library after school at least twice a week and being excited by what was in it and the power you had at your finger tips of [...]

I spent the weekend bread baking which was highly satisfying. Today I made a double recipe of flax bread as well as a pugliese, both from the Bread Bible. In fact the pugliese is the bread on the cover of the book. I still have had had success with every recipe [...]

So, I got a phone call from the doctor yesterday, it turns out the flu that has been plaguing me is actually Strep throat. (Darn doctors, 2 days after the test was supposed to come back. ) What this means is that I think I have to give up on my current starter, [...]

Okay, so I agree, I agree on the warmth front but I am not convinced on weight. Weighing by volume is less exact, maybe that is why mine is so liquid? However, I went over to Rose Levy Berenbaum’s website and looked around. Alot of people took more then the 5 days to [...]

This is a raita recipe to go with any spicy curry. Make it a bit ahead so the flavours can gel!
Cucumber Raita:1 cup plain yogourt½ cucumber, peeled and shredded (not english cuke.)½ teaspoon salt½ teaspoon garam masala⅛ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Put yoghourt in a bowl. Using a food processor shredded the cuke. Combine with [...]