Kunjip In Koreatown – NYC Day 3
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Our third day in New York started off fairly regularly for a Saturday; coffee, bagel and Farmers’ market. It was what we ate on this day that made us realize that we were not in Halifax anymore! Doug decided that he wanted us to get off the beaten path and try something different, hence a [...]
Tags: kimchee, Korean food, Koreatown, Kunjip Korean restaurant, New York City, soju
It Was So Nice, We Had To Go Twice – NYC Day 2
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I have never been a die hard fan or follower of the “celebrity chef’, but I was very curious to try out Mario Batali’s two Spanish resto’s in New York’s Grammercy Park. After a full day of walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and eating various forms of street meat, we ventured back up to our [...]
Tags: Cava, New York City, seafood, Spanish Food
A New York-ing We Will Go – NYC Day 1
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Believe it or not, my husband turns thirty this weekend, and I thought that a trip to NYC for his birthday would be amazing. So, over comes Grammy to watch the lil’ ham for a few days and away we go. Watch out Big Apple, here we come to eat you! We arrived in Manhattan [...]
Tags: Blue Hill Restaurant, lamb, New York City, pork, wine
Here We Grow!
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Zoe, Doug & I recently rented a plot in a community garden just down the street from our house. In a perfect world, we would have an immense garden in our backyard, but unfortunately our lil’ piece of swamp land here in the city makes our newly rented plot entirely necessary! There is something to [...]
Tags: community garden, Inn At Bay Fortune
Now here’s the Catch…
Posted by Renee | Filed under Events, Recipes
This past weekend I had the extreme pleasure to be involved in the first ever Catch Nova Scotia Seafood Festival. I spent two full days shucking, slurping, wining and entertaining. I am going to venture a guess and say that my co-shuckers from Little Fish Oyster Bar and I must have shucked over 1500 Black [...]
Tags: Catch Seafood Festival, clams, Little Fiish, oysters, Willy Krauch
I’ll “Beet” It Outta Ya!
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I recently did some demonstrations at the Catch Seafood Festival on the Taste Of Nova Scotia Culinary Stage. Here is an adaptation of that recipe witch includes golden, candy cane and bull’s blood beets. Hope you “beet” it up! Beet and Smoked Mackerel Salad 1 candy cane beet; peeled, quartered and thinly sliced 1 golden [...]
Tags: beets, Catch Seafood Festival, recipe, Willy Krauch
Mother’s Day at Sugar Moon Farm
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One of the great things about moving to Halifax four years ago, was that I discovered the little gem that is Sugar Moon Farm. I recently went back for my third “appearance” and had a blast! This time around, I not only had put together a menu based on maple (as they are a sugar [...]
Tags: cheese, lamb, maple, spring, Sugarmoon Farm
