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MaryIsobel

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  1. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    Fig and honey bread sounds fabulous!
  2. Love the white almond sour cream cake - it's my go-to for special occaision cakes.
  3. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    I have baked gnocchi in a sheet pan dinner and liked the outcome. I'll have to try broiling it for the crispy factor.
  4. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    Now that's a hot dog! Speaking of dogs, I made 15 beirocks today. DH and I will have a couple with soup for dinner and the rest will go in the freezer to feed our dog/house sitter for a week while we go to Mexico for a short trip. I pulled them out of the oven and pushed them to the far back of the stove top. Turned my back for less than 5 seconds and my granddog Mable had taken a bite. I moved them to the spare room to finish cooling and closed the door. As I was packaging them up, I again turned my back for less than 5 seeconds and Mabel had grabbed one and run off with it. Hard to get a photo of a black lab but here she is, scoping out the kitchen. Her much better behaved sister, Freckles, is in the background.
  5. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    I agree Norm, I like to cook and find it relaxing but the figuring out of "what to make" exhausts me.
  6. Oh my! I could gobble that up very inelegantly right this minute and I just had lunch! Carbonara is probably my favourite pasta. I limit myself to a couple of times a year at home but it is also my test dish at an Italian restaurant that I haven't been to. I don't order if it says bacon - I will give it a chance with prosciutto and if it's guanciale, I'm getting it. A local place does a great one using guanciale - it's served with a raw yolk on top.
  7. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    I'd love to try this - quite the different take on coq au vin. I cannot find frozen pearl onions anywhere around here. Even the fresh ones only show up in canning season. I'll have to try harder to find them.
  8. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    You're an amazing Dad. I hopee Charlie appreciates all your efforts!
  9. MaryIsobel

    Breakfast 2025

    I think your husband and mine might be long lost brothers
  10. Jumped on sourdough bread during Covid. I've baked bread for years but had never done soudough. I like the taste of sourdough but honestly the babysitting got to me and now I normally just go with a classic french loaf, or a no knead boule made in a dutch oven or foccaicia. Not that I would ever turn down a loaf of sourdough - especially if it were enjoyed in San Fransisco. As a kid, when I was 9, we sailed from Vancouver to Southampton and stopped in San Fransisco. My mom was insistent that we found sourdough bread, so that and a few other things were are picnic before getting back on the ship.
  11. I too thought the "commercial mayo" myth had been debunked.
  12. Looking forward to your review although I cannot abide the thought of the ones with "warts." I have to avert my eyes when I see them on display!
  13. Looking forward to which you prefer. There are more and more types of squash that I haven't heard of around here these days.
  14. MaryIsobel

    Lunch 2025

    Love puttanesca and have put it on chicken and fish as well as pasta. I like the addition of zucchini and the chickpeas are a great idea for a veg version - thanks!
  15. MaryIsobel

    Lunch 2025

    That sounds heaveny!
  16. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    Fresh sockeye has spoiled me for any other type of salmon.
  17. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    We have always had spinach as a stand along veg. Steamed and then sauteed with garlic and a bit of butter. I find that the butter cuts whatever that is that coats your teeeth when eating spinac.
  18. MaryIsobel

    Dinner 2025

    Looks delicious. Sablefish is my next favourite to halibut! I find ling cod to be very similar in taste and texture so I love that too.
  19. MaryIsobel

    Breakfast 2025

    Wow - that looks fabulous - peaches are just coming into their own around here so will definitely pick up some proscitto.
  20. My favourite ice cream is Maple Walnut - maple is obviously a big Canadian product - and almost all of our neighbours have a walnut tree on their property - hmmmm
  21. I tried a recipe from Half Baked Harvest; Brown Butter Raspberry White Chocolate cookies. Our son-in-law to be loves anything with white chocolate and raspberries. I've never been a hugs fan of white "chocolate" but he is such a great help to us - I like to keep him happy. The flavour profile was great - browned butter and raspberries, yum. The recipe needs tweaking; I flattened the cookie balls a bit and then slammed them on the counter after baking but they remained a bit puffy. Worth experimenting with for sure. Before baking:
  22. One of my favourite desserts - my daughter bakes me on every year for my birthday.
  23. If only they would come to Canada. There was a business in Vancouver years ago that sold TJ's stuff at inflated prices. I think it was called Pirate Joes's. Anyway - I guess TJ's shut them down with a cease and desist. Fair enough. There is one in Bellingham WA, which is about 40 km from me - I used to go down two or three times a year. Now I'm standing with my fellow Canucks, trying not to spend any money south of the 49th. Hopefully I will wake up and this has all been a bad dream....
  24. MaryIsobel

    Breakfast 2025

    I would love to have breakfast with you - every day! Between your unique breakfasts and your personality, it would be a wonderful meal!
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