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Hard cider is really trending up -- especially iced cider which is a dessert wine choice that is growing in popularity.

Yeah, I think I'd core them, too. Or, just quarter them and slice off the core edge. That said, the idea is a good one!

This is a great book! Julie and I are acquainted and I know how much she put into these recipes and photos - I'd be gobsmacked if every recipe didn't work perfectly!

Yikes - I think I've been breaking an etiquette rule my whole life.

I've recently been enjoying Bali long peppercorns for flavouring stocks and shellfish cooking water:

Nice one! My summer salads for hot days have been a very simple mussel and clam salad and an even simpler watermelon and feta salad that I have made, literally, 10 times in the last month. I'm add...

I had a spoon rest and used it daily until it broke. I've since gone back to using a plate but I'll likely get one again when I see one while I'm shopping.

I drank civet coffee (it was delicious) but I'd never do the bird's nest soup. Do you know what that nest is made of? Shiver!

Very interesting. These are the same size and colour as the berries sold here in Toronto as blackberries. I've never found them that delicious - just tart and juicy. Maybe I've never actually had a...

Cute but I love filling and this looks like a concept that is more about pastry than filling.

I'm with you! I actually like tuna salad sandwiches for breakfast, too.

I love mussels, too. Your post reminds me of a story my husband told me other day about seeing a whole lobster carcass in the garbage when he was a little kid right after his family moved to Montre...

I like my cobbler a bit more fruity. I think I'd double the fruit layer.

I use my hand held sprayer and dish brush to clean my strainer. If I have any worries about lingering stuff, I pour water out of the boiling tea kettle over it.

When I was doing research for my book Last Dinner on the Titanic, my research of Edwardian ice cream called this style of ice cream American ice cream and custard based ones French.

This is totally a 50's vibe. My first Easy Bake oven in the 70's was that turquoise colour - remember those?

This is how I learned how to kill lobster at chef school. The hard part for me is that they reflexively curl up when you cut into them which is FREAKY! I recently wrote a post about co...

I don't know if we have mulberries here in Ontario. That said, your mublerries look a lot like the black berries we get. I'm not a big fan of blackberries sold commercially though since they usuall...