Dana McCauley's Food Writer's Diary
Blog URL http://danamccauley.wordpress.com
Located Toronto, Ontario Canada
Tags food trends, recipes, cooking, chefs, restaurants, products
A daily blog focusing on food trends, recipes and cooking tips.
Latest Blog Posts
- Weekend Party Trick: 60-second appetizer on Nov 20, 2009 in Cooking tips Holidays Parties and entertaining Recipes Snacking appetizer brie easy appetizer entertaining recipe
The challenge: make a great looking appetizer that tastes fantastic in less time than it takes to wiggle into your party clothes. The solution: Fruit and Nut topped Camembert 1 wheel Camembert or Brie cheese Liquid honey 1 handful Back to Nature Ra...
- French onion soup on Nov 19, 2009 in Cheese Comfort food Cooking tips Recipes french onion soup recipe soup soup recipe
Every where I turned last week I ran into French onion soup: commercials, blogs, cookbooks. It almost seemed surreal but certainly not bad. For me, French onion soup has a retro appeal that’s hard to beat. When made well, it’s a rich, full-flavou...
- Judgmental on Nov 18, 2009 in Baking Desserts and sweet stuff Recipes beer kraft pillsbury recipe shortbread shortbread bars
I’ve always thought of myself as an open minded person but obviously, the rest of the world doesn’t see me that way. Somehow, I’ve become known as as judgemental. In the last month I’ve been asked to judge everything from cookies and co...
- Topline Trends Tuesday: Is tea cooling down? on Nov 17, 2009 in Drinks Trends adrian doran food trends tea tea trends
Curious about what’s happening with the tea trend? So am I. So, I asked tea aficionado and graphic design expert Adrian Doran to attend a tea event in Toronto and report back to us. His findings are interesting. While reports show that consumers ar...
- Smoke signals on Nov 16, 2009 in Fruits and vegetables Grilling and BBQs eggplant fall grilling grilled eggplant grilling winter grilling
A lot has changed since I was a kid. Today, apparently, it’s a tragic embarrassment to have your mom call across the street that it’s time to come in from playing street hockey to eat your dinner. I’ve been instructed to text my son that his di...
- Garlic: it’s not too late to plant on Nov 13, 2009 in Fruits and vegetables Gardening Herbs and spices garlic stratford
Yesterday I had a nice chat with Warren Ham, the farmer who runs August’s Harvest garlic farm in Stratford, Ontario and guess what he said? It’s not too late to plant some garlic so that you have a home harvest next year. In fact, even if...
- Quiche me if you dare on Nov 12, 2009 in Cooking tips Holidays Parties and entertaining Recipes holiday entertaining quiche quiche recipe
It’s that time of year again. Time to pull out your cocktail party clothes and brush up on current affairs because the holiday season party invitations are going to start rolling in! Or, maybe you’re thinking of hosting a holiday shindig. If so,...
