Grape Squeeze

Graham wafer base: 1 cup graham wafer crumbs 1/4 cup melted butter 1 tablespoon sugar Mix together and press this onto the bottom of a 9 inch round springform pan and set aside. Cheesecake filling: 1 package plain gelatin 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup boiling water 1 1/2 250 gram packages of cream cheese, softened [...]

1 large yellow potato 1 tablespoon plus 1/2 tablespoon olive oil 1/2 tablespoon fresh rosemary, minced 1 large garlic clove, crushed 2 filets of beef, 6 to 8 ounces each 2 portobello mushrooms salt and pepper to taste 1. Preheat the oven to 400F. Cut the potato into eight wedges and toss with the 1/2 [...]

Croutons: 4 sliced baguette rounds Butter 1 clove of garlic, crushed Preheat the oven to 400F. Butter each baguette round and top it with 1/4 of the pressed garlic clove. Place them onto a cookie sheet and bake for about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Soup: 2 large red peppers, cored and seeded 1/2 [...]

Dressing: 1 tablespoon cold pressed extra virgin olive oil 1 large clove of garlic, peeled, crushed, and minced Juice of half a lemon 1/2 tablespoon of liquid honey 1/8 teaspoon salt fresh ground pepper to taste Whisk these ingredients together the day before the dressing is required and refrigerate it until needed. Salad: 1 cup [...]

You want to be careful about what you put into your mouth. As children, we did not know this. No, it seemed like a fine idea to eat mud pies when they resembled chocolate and there was always pool water to drink if you got thirsty while swimming. It was all good. Our parents and [...]

Vine is vut my Papa used to make in ze basement on ze farm. He harvested red currants and raspberries from his garden and transformed them into something decidedly unMennonite. I remember the huge fermenting vessel with its apparatus on top and how fascinated we three girls were over his process of siphoning the wine [...]

Oh snobby, snobby me.  I chose the theme of ‘Pairing Wine and Cheese’ for my latest newsletter believing it would be an easy task to apply what I know about food and wine pairing to the art of pairing wine with cheese.  How hard could it be?  Mild with mild, strong with strong, creamy with creamy… [...]

Oh yeah… bring on the SUN!  People, we have waited for a little longer than usual for this warmness so do not let me hear any of you complaining.  I know, some of you have to work out in it and being a compassionate person I understand that this is not easy… especially if your [...]

I have two sisters.  One is approximately a year older than me, and the other is approximately a year younger than I am.  For some of you the light probably just went on as you thought… ‘Ah, yes that explains things’.  It does.  But that is not what this story is about. My dear older [...]

Yes it is true… I recently had a birthday.  It is no big secret either that I love birthday cake more than I love any other food in the world.  I am willing to do almost anything for a well-deserved piece of cake with icing on it, even acknowledge that I have gotten a year [...]