“Where the water costs more than the wine” – Quartino Restaurant Italy can be hard to describe to those who have never been there. Beyond obvious things like ancient building facades and wonderful smells wafting out of kitchen windows and into the narrow cobblestone streets, there is a rhythm to life that takes a bit […]
I have to confess that even before arriving at Paris Club, I knew I was in for something special. When I started this blog I was living in Europe, where I was inspired by the variety of cuisines that were all around us; my favorite of course being french food. As I first stepped into […]
I’m surrounded by a sea of turquoise water, the sparkling bluish green revealing gem-like corals and a parade of colorful fish darting about only inches beneath the shimmering surface. Some even surface for a gulp of air. As I wander along a deserted stretch of white sands, I notice there are no ships in sight; […]
There on my doorstep sat a big brown box; why, hello there I thought. The box was from Hello Fresh, a meal delivery service for aspiring gourmets. Each and every dish has been designed by the executive chef of a Michelin-starred Manhattan, New York restaurant. I was given the choice of reviewing either a classic […]
Walking over to the back door she reached behind the oven and pulled out the old step stool, snapping it open with a creak and placing it just next to her working space next to the stove. From a high cabinet overhead she reaches for the flour canister, measuring some out into her brown melamine […]
It is a privilege that Foodista.com has chosen A Cook’s Canvas for Food Blog of the Day! They featured my No-Knead Bread recipe and I feel honored to be selected. This is entirely unexpected and a big surprise! I couldn’t be more thrilled, especially because being picked as the Food Blog of the Day puts […]
If you enjoyed my last post about German breads and would like to try baking bread yourself, why not start with this easy no-knead bread recipe? I’ve always been intimidated by the idea of baking my own bread, I thought this was too deep of a subject for dabbling, and only a serious baker could […]
I was never really that ‘into’ bread before I went to Germany. I liked bread of course, but I hadn’t really ever thought much about it beyond making toast in the morning or spread with butter at the dinner table. More often I would choose other carbs such as pasta, potatoes, or crackers and snack […]
Well, hello friends! I’ve missed writing to you. I’ve missed my ritual of brainstorming recipes, shopping for ingredients, cooking, baking, shooting photos and then writing to you about it. We’ve been in Chicago a little over three weeks now and it still seems like yesterday that we said goodbye to our life in Germany and hello […]
Hello Friends, I have been fairly quiet here on my blog these last few weeks but for a very very good reason. The winds of change are blowing and after four years of living abroad in southern Germany, we are moving back to Chicago. It has taken all our time and energies to sort through […]
On Valentine’s day I met my husband at his office and we went to one of our favorite restaurants in town for hot tomato soup and herbed bread. Afterwards, we went to the grocery store for a few things and after he saw me pick up a package of chocolate covered butter cookies, then a […]
A few months ago I was having trouble sleeping and for some reason I kept waking up at 4:35am. I didn’t even need to look at the clock to know, I already knew before looking that it was 4:35. What does that mean? It went away for a while but recently it has started up […]
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