Karla Plumb

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A girl in her kitchen in the Great White North.

Archive: May, 2011



Bacon, Egg & Asparagus Salad

Friday, May 20th, 2011

A few years ago, my sister and her (now) husband were living in Paris and Jon & I went to visit them for a lovely 10 days. I absolutely adore Paris – it was my second visit, but I remember even on my first visit how at home I felt once I’d hit the streets there, even though my French is not fluent despite studying it through most of my education. I’m such a terrible student.

One of the first places we ate at was actually a pizza restaurant and we each ordered our individual pizzas ‘avec un oeuf’. Yes, egg on your pizza – just a big ol’ cracked egg baked on top of all the toppings! What a revelation! And of course it was delicious! I tried once or twice to replicate it at home on my pizzas, but I can’t get it right – I don’t think my oven gets hot enough.

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Oven-Fried Chicken Tenders

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

When we lived in Calgary, it seemed like we went out for beer ‘n wings nearly every week. Which is a pretty bad habit to get into, let me tell ya. Thanks to Cook’s Illustrated‘s Buffalo Wing recipe, I discovered I could make pretty awesome wings myself using my KitchenAid enamel-coated cast iron pots and a deep-fry thermometer instead of a deep-fryer, I realized it was a very dangerous skill to acquire, not the least of the danger being me vs. the smoke detector. (But for real, if you’re not on the America’s Test Kitchen bandwagon, you have to check it out – almost every recipe I’ve tried in Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country has turned out perfectly, and perfectly good!)

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Spinach and Bacon Quiche

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Thank you so much again to all of you who voted for my photos (you can still vote here and here if you haven’t already!) and for all your encouraging comments! I’ve also started a Facebook page for Frozen Plumb, so you can find me there, too!

FINALLY we’ve been getting some nice weather! Jon & I took Tucker down to High Park last Sunday for a walk and to see the cherry blossom trees that have finally bloomed (unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me. Bad photographer!). It reminded me so much of the year I spent in Japan and the cherry blossom season that year. I’ve been meaning to get down to the park all week to get some photos, but I haven’t made it back and I’m afraid I might have missed my chance. I’ll try and head down there today although we’re expecting a thunderstorm sometime so I might be seriously thwarted. In lieu, here are a few photos I took of my neighbour’s Nanking cherry tree in Calgary a few years back…

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Torteau de Chèvre

Friday, May 6th, 2011

First of all: I KNOW! How pretty was that wedding? I got up at 3:45 a.m. and watched the Canadian CTV feed straight through until 10 a.m., took a brief pause and then switched over to TLC and watched it all over again. I’m not even kidding ya. My favourite parts were the lip-reading when Harry whispered to William “Wait ’til you see her!” at the altar, and then once Kate had settled herself into the carriage after the ceremony, she turned to William and did exactly what I would have done: she said, “Are you happy?!” just to convey how crazy-happy she was. SIGH. Magic! Of course, I also would have smooched him huge in the carriage, but that’s just more proof that I am not Royal.

So in lieu of wedding cake, we got torteau de chèvre – goat cheesecake. Or is it ‘goat cheese cake’? Whatever, it was YUM. And so easy to put together, even with the folding in of the egg whites, which I always think I over-mix, and I don’t think mine poofed quite as much as Dorie’s picture, so it’s possible I did it this time, too. My mother-in-law was staying with us for a few days of big city shopping, so I made the cake while she was here in lieu of us traveling out to London this weekend for Mother’s Day. She loved it! It was a great treat after a long, cold and rainy day of shopping, as well. (more…)

 

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