I am a selective carnivore. That’s right. I only eat the animals I like, such as chicken, fish, cute baby lambs and occaionally pigs. Generally I cannot stand beef meat, but I like the flavor of beef. So what to do when I want Beef stroganoff without the beef but still have the chest-hair-curling flavor of delicious cow? Ground turkey my friends. Yes. You heard me. Ground turkey picks up the beef flavor fantastically and is meat. So...

It’s dangerous knowing how to make great homemade bread. At first, it doesn’t seem like it. You fail a few times and chew stoically on your fifty pound loaf that should have come out light and fluffy because damn it, you MADE this and you’re gonna EAT it and pretend to ENJOY it because it took you HOURS to make it. You think back on everything everyone has told you about bread, with their sneering Bread Overlord smug...

Mid July in Nova Scotia. My grandmother’s century and a bit more home, painted white wooden siding freshly cleaned by rain from the day before. It might reach 85 at it’s hottest in summer there. Years later while I am old and cantankerous, living in Florida I’ll mock myself for thinking it was hot. For now, for us in that moment and time it was pretty warm. My grandmother’s kitchen was the focal point for her entire...

Valentines dinner consisted of a visit to a restauraunt we rarely get the chance to afford to go to. Some may scoff that paying over fifty dollars for a good meal out every once in a while should be a given, these people should give me their god damn money and stay home. The rest of us scrimp and save to treat ourselves, and Shawn certainly did treat.  Here’s some evidence!

Chinese Tea Eggs make my entire house smell wonderful, they have a light, delicious salty flavor when cooked right, and, they come out looking like this: That’s the biggest reason why I love them, I think. [singlepic=51,250,250,] [singlepic=52,250,250,]