Every time I take this salad to a cookout or a picnic, I get rave reviews. Kale, apple and bacon salad recipe Serves 4 Ingredients: 2 red apples, cut into long slices 2 teaspoons lemon juice 8 ounces kale, washed and torn into bite-sized pieces 6 slices bacon, crumbled 1/3 cup toasted walnuts 1/4 cup […]

This recipe comes from the book The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon, who spends the entire book explaining, in detail, how to cook and serve a single large leg of lamb.  You wouldn’t think that could be so interesting. His chapter on how to cut up an onion is truly inspirational. This […]

Hardneck garlic is known for trying to set seed in late June, so it throws up a curly seedhead called a ‘scape.’ Farmers snap these off so that the energy goes into the bulb, but those scapes can be used in cooking for lightly garlic-ed dishes such as stirfry, butters, or pesto. But my favourite […]