My Dinner Table

If the cooler weather and the leaves just beginning weren't enough to tell me it was fall just around the corner. I saw this sign at Farm Boy. The new crop of apples are in. I guess not everything about summer being over is a bad thing...

I lamented earlier about the lack of summer. It isn't just that the weather has been crappy, but because of all the rain and little sun, the pickings at the markets this summer have only been so-so...

I bought this cheese last week. A little button of cheese from Fifth Town, my new favourite cheesemaker. This was a sheep milk cheese with a soft rind. Cutting into the round the cheese oozed out. I liquid layer surrounded a firmer centre. Luscious and creamy...

Margaritas for me were crazy slushy blender drinks that you got a Earls on Monday nights because they were cheap. They weren't really a serious cocktail. But then a couple of years ago, a friend of mine ordered a margarita in a bar...

Daphne was having a fish taco craving on the holiday weekend and since there is nowhere in Ottawa that we know about to go for that sort of thing here we were left making out own. If you know anywhere here for good fish tacos please tell me. There is nothing really fancy about fish tacos...

I've written several times about why I love shopping at Costco. I think they have great quality stuff in many categories and it is great value. Nobody sells the litre cartons of heavy cream for the price they do. Yes, I buy litre cartons of whipped cream. The meat is pretty decent...

There are few things that I like more than noodles to eat. It is probably one of the biggest reason why I will never go on an low-carb diet. I love noodles too much. I love all sorts of noodles from every culture I've tried them. At the top of the heap are probably the Asian versions. ...

I was having a bit of a peanut butter cookie craving. Maybe it has something to do with the giant Costco-sized container of peanut butter has been staring at me from inside the fridge every time I go looking for something other than peanut butter. Sitting there...

To drink with the osso bucco last weekend we opened a bottle of chianti. I must confess that I bought the bottle because it had one of those little descriptions on the shelf at the LCBO saying it was great.That and the label looked vaguely familiar...

I've been posting about what I've been cooking a lot recently, so I thought I'd change it up a little and post about a new toy this summer in my kitchen. An ISI Soda Siphon...

After the osso bucco, I had leftovers. I love making meals that leave me with leftovers. But the thing is we don't have a microwave. It is mostly a space thing. There is simply no room for it in our tiny kitchen...

There are some desserts that only come around once a year. I can make apple pies all year long. I can make decent lemon tarts whatever the season. But peach cobbler only comes around for a couple of weeks a year. For a couple of weeks at the end of August, the peaches are in and they are fantastic...

Ottawa has had a terrible summer. Rainy. Sort of like a Vancouver summer, so haven't really minded all that much, but Saturday may have been the tipping point. Summer is definitely over. It was a very fall day and that meant fall food...

One of my favourite things to get with my coffee is the lemon-raspberry loaf at Starbucks. It is sort of my guilty pleasure. I don't always buy it, but when I do I love it. So I wanted to see if I could make it at home. If you've had it before you'll know it isn't all that complicated...