Lemons, Liquor, and Dreaming of the Italian Sun
So, do you feel like your life could use a little bit more sunshine these days? Winter may be enchanting in December, and the promise and romance of the new year gets everyone off to a good start in January, but, come late February, all that cold and wet and grey just seems to hang...
Waste Not, Want Not (And Have the Best Afternoon Tea Around)
So, if you’ve been keeping the sourdough starter from the first installment of the Reuben Quest, you will have been regularly needing to throw away some of the spent starter in order to refresh it with new flour and water. If you’re at all like me, the notion of regularly and systematically throwing away foodstuffs...
The Reuben Quest: Part II – Sauerkraut
So, with any luck, in the time that has passed since the last installment of the Reuben Quest, your sourdough starters have transformed from sweet little pots of floury goo into happily bubbling little microbial villages, primed and ready for hitherto unexplored dimensions of bread baking. This brings us to the next component of our...
Scotch Irish Brewing: Stuart’s Natural Session Ale
Carrying on with the theme of seasonal beers intended for the summer, I’m pleased to report that the LCBO is once again stocking another of my favourite summer beers – the Scotch Irish Brewing Company’s Stuart’s Natural Session Ale. Brewed in the style of the classic British ordinary bitter, this is a versatile, light and...
Creemore Springs Keller Bier
As we draw nearer and nearer to full, broad, and beautiful summer, the hearts and minds of beer drinkers start to drift away from the rich, sustaining stouts and bocks that saw them through the dark winter months, and steadily towards the lighter, crisper, and more refreshing summer beers. Of course, the mild pilseners that...
From the Ground Up: Making a Reuben Sandwich from Scratch – Part I
Introduction If you’re like me, whenever you look at food, you wonder how it’s made, and if you could make it yourself. Well, in the case of the classic Reuben sandwich, the answer is: Yes, you can. Okay, so that’s ever-so-slightly misleading – if you have the facilities, the knowhow, and access to the right...
