This is a second blog on the Georgain Cheese bread, also known as Khachapuri or Hachapuri, because I guess my pictures looked so good that people have been asking me for the recipe. Well I don’t blame them, it is delicious and well worth and easy to make. This is the recipe for the dough:

There are many recipes for this bread. I love to make it as as an appetizer and bake it right before my guests come and serve it hot from the oven. Sometimes it is made with a yeast dough but the recipe I use is really simple: flour, salt, baking soda, butter, yoghurt and egg. [...]

Here are some pictures of a cake I made on the weekend for my niece’s birthday. It is an over the top gushy four year old girly princess cake. I actually had this bubble gum coloured fondant at home for some reason so I put it to good use. The hearts were from the super [...]

“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin’-race!” Today is Robbie Burns Day. Admittedly not the biggest foodie event on the calendar but I could not resist a nod to the fair Haggis especially after stumbling on this site for Crawford’s Scottish Butchers. You have to go and see the excellent pictures [...]

Mochi is a Japanese confection made from a sweet glutinous rice. Traditionally, mochi is made by pounding steamed glutinous rice in a large wooden mortar, called the usu, with a wooden mallet called the kine. Mochi-tsuki is the Japanese name for the traditional ceremony of pounding the steamed glutinous rice. It turns into a dense [...]

At the gala Friday night the dairy board was sampling cheese to go along with the wine selections. Everything I had was good but the Bleubry was fantastic, I had to refill my glass of Cabernet to savour with this cheese. It is made in Quebec by Saputo. It is a soft cows milk cheese, [...]

I recently have had two run-ins with Peking Duck; out for dim sum last weekend and at the Ice Wine Gala Friday night. Peking Duck is one of those things that when it is just ok you think what is all of the fuss about, but when it is good it is absolutely sublime. That [...]

Here are some pictures from the gala event in Niagara Friday night; the kick off for the Niagara Ice Wine Festival. We had some good wine and fantastic food. We were greeted with an ice wine martini that packed a real punch. The Niagara wineries were out en masse with more than just ice wine [...]