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Mike Zaborsky’s Grilled Chicken Paprikash

  The following is an excerpt from Ted Reader’s Beerlicious cookbook. Your chicken paprikash will never be the same! I met Mike Zaborsky at the 2004 Grey Cup in Ottawa, as I was coming out of a bar around 2 a.m. for a smoke and some cold November air. Anyway, this guy drops to his [...]

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Miami Short Rib Sandwiches with Smoked Mozzarella

Miami Short Rib Sandwich with Smoked Mozzarella

  Miami-cut short ribs are a thin cut of beef rib. For best results they should be approximately 1⁄4 inch (6 mm) thick. Ask your butcher for these. Short Ribs 1⁄3 cup (80 mL) low-sodium soy sauce 1⁄3 cup (80 mL) mirin (sweet cooking rice wine) 1⁄3 cup (80 mL) rice wine vinegar 3 Tbsp [...]

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Food Has the Ability to Bring People Together

  The following is an excerpt from The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis The poor, marginalized and hungry rarely get a place at the discussion table. Most people don’t even bother to ask why there is so much hunger and [...]

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How Food Can Grow a Community

  Meet Nick Saul & Andrea Curtis, they’re the authors of  The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement. They’ve stopped by Crave by Random House to share their story of how they food brought their community together! When we decided to build a raised bed vegetable garden [...]

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Kathy Buckworth

Kathy Buckworth Lands TV Deal

  Random House of Canada is pleased to announce that Kathy Buckworth’s new book, I Am So The Boss Of You: An 8 Step Guide To Giving Your Family “The Business” has been optioned by Warner Brothers Television.  We talked to Kathy about this deal and what it means to her. “I grew up watching [...]

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Eva’s Heritage Borscht

Eva’s Heritage Borscht

My husband’s grandmother Eva immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe. She was never sure if she was Polish or Ukrainian—their town was on the border, and the lines between countries changed so many times they lost track—but she made perogies and cabbage rolls with the deftest of Ukrainian precision! I inherited this borscht recipe from [...]

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Had a Glass 2013

A Four Step Wine Tasting Tutorial

Confession time: I do not like wine. That’s a pretty broad blanket statement, isn’t it? Having been a fan of beer for ages, I have never been to a wine tasting, and I’m somewhat sad to report that I have yet to discover a wine that I can truly enjoy. That being said, many of [...]

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150 essential whole grain recipes

Enter to Win: Canadian Living’s 150 Essential Whole Grain Recipes

  This is the cookbook I have been waiting for! “Whole grains” seems to be the hot buzz phrase right now, and it fits right into my new mission to cook healthier meals for my family. Check out these sample recipes: Lemon Cornmeal Cookies Gravlax Blini Bites I’m pleased to offer my extra copy of [...]

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Lemon Cornmeal Cookies

Lemon Cornmeal Cookies

These rustic cornmeal S-shaped cookies are a delicious change of pace from traditional sweet cookies. The cornmeal gives them a pleasant crunch that goes well with a cup of tea. Dust them with icing sugar, if desired. 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/3 cups fine stone-ground cornmeal 1 cup cold butter, cubed 3 egg [...]

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Gravlax Blini Bites

Gravlax Blini Bites

Tiny buckwheat pancakes are the ideal backdrop for a curl of tender, salty-sweet cured salmon. If you just can’t wait five days, you can eat the gravlax as early as the third day of curing. 1 tbsp black peppercorns 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup pickling salt or kosher salt 2 lb (900 g) skin-on [...]

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