Unbleached Flour vs Bleached Flour – What’s the Difference?
This week’s question comes to me from Catherine who writes: “This is a question for Christine @ The Foodie File. I am not sure if you have covered this topic before but I was wondering what would be the difference in using unbleached flour as opposed to the usual all-purpose flour? Does it make a [...]
Tequila Drink Recipes
Tequila is going to be my new summer beverage. While in Mexico I learned about and indulged in many new ways of enjoying this libation outside of the popper with lime and salt. I thought I’d share some tequila cocktails with my foodie-friends. Maybe you can have a few for Mothers Day this weekend!
Fish Tacos and Curtis Stone Cookbook Winner
In honor of my biblical fish experience on the beaches of Puerta Vallarta, my “relaxed” recipe for today is fish tacos. This picture is a version that I had in Mexico where the fish was fried. Very yummy, but this recipe is a lighter version
Fish On The Beach… A Biblical Experience.
Here’s a great foodie experience I had in Puerto Vallarta. I was walking along the beach in the early morning and the beach was oddly covered in fish that locals were collecting it by the bucketful. Some people were throwing them back into the ocean but others were collecting them to feast on later. There [...]
Tortas Ahogadas and Pico di Gallo Recipes
Translation… Drowned Pork Sandwiches and Chicken Feed – sounds better in Spanish right? I had these yummy local foods on my Tequila making adventure in Mexico. Ahogadas means drowned, an appropriate name for these messy tomato sauce laden pulled pork sandwiches. These sandwiches are the street food of Jalisco; sold in sandwich shacks, and family [...]
Tequila: The Foodie-file goes to Mexico!
I spent last week visiting and learning all about the making of tequila in Mexico in the state of Jalisco. Instead of my usual Canadiana fare, I will be bringing you foodie highlights from Mexico over the next week. Today’s foodie topic is tequila!
Spicy Halibut and Potato Skillet Recipe Wins The Tickets!
Cathy submitted her tried and true recipe for this fish dish that has won her the Blue Water event tickets in Vancouver. I like that it was a recipe passed on to her and then she has made her own, let’s all try it and see what innovations we can add! Cathy, congratulations and have fun at [...]
Artichoke Pesto Linguine and Curtis Stone Cookbook Winner
I’m giving away the first Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone cookbook. My “relaxed” recipe recommendation for today is this easy to make spring entrée or starter for Artichoke Pesto Linguine:
How To Serve an Avocado
I chose Marjorie’s question for this week’s Foodies Ask because I just got back from Mexico where I had the most delicious and perfectly ripe avocados. More on Mexico, tequila and yummy street food over the next week but for now Marjorie writes me… “Hi, I would like to know how do you prepare Avocados. [...]
Free Cookbooks and Relaxed Cooking Recipes!
Spring has sprung, has made me happy and put me in a generous mood. Once again it’s time for my favourite thing: a no-work-no-strings-attached COOKBOOK GIVE-AWAY! I was able to source fifteen hot-off-the-presses celebrity cookbooks for my foodie community courtesy of Random House. All Foodie-file subscribers are eligible to win a Cookbook, you do not [...]
