Tag Archives: eggs

Main Street Station farmer’s market

Apparently, it’s local food week on this here blog. That was unintentional, but maybe a reflection of the plethora of the events and whatnot that are going on this time of year, and in Vancouver. Yesterday was the opening of the Main Street Station farmer’s market. Had I been more...

Czehoski: creme brulee that doesn’t suck

While I was in Toronto a few weeks ago, I met up with some friends from grad school. One lives in Montreal, the other in London (Ontario, that is). And all the stars aligned and our paths crossed in the T-dot. How about that. We met at Czehoski, a place...

The wonder of sponge cake

Genoise is the classic French sponge cake. Its exhaustive list of ingredients includes eggs, sugar and flour. And maybe a wee bit of butter. But that’s it. Just think for a minute about how amazing that is. Eggs are individually packaged vehicles containing fat and protein. Sugar is a crystalline sweetener that gives...

Tricks for poached eggs

There’s a running joke between me and my roommate that all we eat, regardless of whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner, is toast and eggs. She scrambles, I poach. Sometimes, when we’re feeling wacky, we’ll have cheese or spinach with it. It took me years to figure out how to...