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Baking

Sistering’s Vintage Cookbook Yields a Lovely Lemon Loaf

December 19, 2018

Sistering – a drop-in for homeless and marginalized women – has been a stalwart front-line facility in downtown Toronto since 1981.

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Today, this busy place is located on Bloor West at Dovercourt and, for the past three years, it has expanded its services to be a “low-barrier” shelter. That means that they operate 24/7 and turn away no-one. With the homeless crisis reaching a peak this year and only getting worse, it’s a crowded spot.  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Dessert, Recipe, Toronto, Women Tagged With: baking, homeless women, lemon loaf, recipe, sistering, Toronto

Surviving the Apocalypse Involves Dutch Babies

November 24, 2018

Dutch BabiesDutch Babies are a crepe-like dish that can be filled with a variety of goodies
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Filed Under: Baking, Beef, Chefs, Cookbooks, Dessert, Foodies, Montreal, Podcasts, Recipe, Restaurant Tagged With: anthony bourdain, baking, Canadian cuisine, cookbook, David McMillan, Dutch Babies, Fred Morin, Joe Beef, Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse, Montreal, recipe

Mutual Love of Prunes is One Bond I Have with Gabriella

September 20, 2018

Prune Soufflé
The Prune Soufflé that my mother used to make from her 1940s edition of the ‘Joy of Cooking’
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It was May, 2004, during a glitzy dinner celebrating that year’s James Beard Awards at a mid-Manhattan hotel.

Gabriella Gershenson, at that time a fledgling food writer living in New York, was seated next to me. I discovered that I and this soft-spoken young woman with thick, wavy black hair and a winning smile were kindred souls.  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Cookbooks, Dessert, Fall vegetables, Foodies, New York City, Recipe, Vegan, Vegetables, Women Tagged With: dessert, Gabriella Gershenson, Joy of Cooking, Lebanese, New York, prune souffle, recipe, stuffed zucchini, Vegetables

My Lovely Late Mum Ruth Made a Mean Beef Stroganoff

May 19, 2018

My mother Ruth Schachter (née Nisse) in the garden of her flat in Primrose Hill, London UK, in 2014

I wrote this in 2002 when I was food editor for the Toronto Star. My dear mother, 95, died peacefully in her sleep a month ago on April 21, 2018  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Beef Stroganoff, childhood, Dessert, identity, Jewish, Latvia, Linzertorte, London, My mum Ruth Schachter, Recipe, Riga, Women Tagged With: beef, Beef Stroganoff recipe, dessert, linzertorte, London, mum, My mum Ruth Schachter, recipe

Sweet! Two Delectable Chocolate Creations That Take the Cake

March 10, 2017

Click on this – my podcast chat with domestic goddess Nigella Lawson recorded in Toronto in late 2015 – and you’ll hear her say that we are “kitchen cousins”:  http://www.marionkane.com/podcast/chat-nigella-kitchen-cousin

She’s referring to several important things we have in common: A willingness to freely improvise when cooking; an acceptance of failure in the kitchen as a necessary path to learning, and a penchant for eating her dish of Squid and Orzo Pasta cold for breakfast.  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Chefs, Chocolate, Cookbooks, Dessert, Foodies, Nigella Lawson, Recipe Tagged With: cake, chocolate, chocolate dessert, cookbook, delicious dessert, feast, nigella lawson, recipe, torte

The Butter Tart: A Delectable Canadian Culinary Icon and the Topic of Hot Debate

March 21, 2014

butter tarts on white plate

This much is clear. The iconic butter tart is everything a dessert should be.

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It is more proof that nothing succeeds like excess. It commits unabashedly to over-the-top, tooth-aching, sugary sweetness. Julia Child would heartily endorse its endorsement of butter. It pays no heed to the currently popular culinary buzzword “healthful.” In a nutshell, it lives up to all the prerequisites of its much-loved confectionery genre.  Read more...

Filed Under: Butter Tarts, Midland annual Buttertart Festival, Recipe Tagged With: baking, butter tart, Buttertart Festival, Food

Famous Sweet from Chez Panisse

June 12, 2008

In spite of attending food conferences across the United States over the years – including a magical few days about 15 years ago during which 100 food writers were all billeted at wineries in the Napa Valley – I have never eaten at Chez Panisse.  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Dessert, Recipe Tagged With: almond tart, Lindsey Shere, recipe

Beefcake and Beef

December 18, 2007

Let’s get one thing out of the way: Stephen Alexander, the tall, slim, charming owner of two Cumbrae’s butcher shops in Toronto specializing in naturally-raised meat (there’s also one in Dundas near Hamilton) , is easy on the eyes.

This third-generation Aussie butcher is also easy on the ears when he talks about his passion: things carnivorous and how to prepare them.  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Recipe, Toronto, Vegetables Tagged With: bruschetta, Cumbrae, Italian, recipe, Stephen Alexander, tomatoes, Toronto

Two Good Recipes

November 25, 2007

Here, for no reason other than I’ve made these two dishes lately, are two great recipes I’d like to share.

The first is from Calgary food writer Cinda Chavich’s nifty cookbook The Girl Can’t Cook (Whitecap). It’s a sweet and simple vegetarian concoction that makes a tasty light lunch or supper served with salad.  Read more...

Filed Under: Baking, Dessert, Recipe, Vegan Tagged With: beans, cannellini beans, cookies, lace cookies, onions, recipes, white bean slather

Marion Kane, Food Sleuth®

Marion Kane, Food Sleuth®

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Marion Kane, Food Sleuth®

Marion Kane has been a leader in the world of food journalism for a few decades. She is an intrepid populist whose work combines social commentary with a consuming passion for all things culinary. For 18 years, she was food editor/columnist for Canada's largest newspaper: the Toronto Star. She lives in Toronto's colourful Kensington Market and is currently a free-wheeling freelance food sleuth®, podcaster, writer and cook.

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