By Mike Hawkins www.FoodFunk.ca We were a bit late with the festivities this year, holding our annual Ukrainian Christmas meal on January 10, four days after the actual celebration. My wife has a Ukrainian-Croatian background and introduced me to this tradition when we first met more than a...

Just having some fun on a relaxing Boxing Day, Lisa, Alexandra and I enjoy some quality time in the kitchen.  Maceo, my cat, makes a cameo appearance as well. Share...

By Mike Hawkins Every decent pub on the planet has chicken wings on its menu.  They’re like crack when it comes to a bar snack, and I’m a true addict. Sadly though, not all pubs can manage a decent wing.  I can imagine it’s a fairly hard thing to do at a restaurant level...

Fire up your facebook and join the group.   The group was created by my friend Jilldo (yes, that’s what she goes by) and I’ll use it to keep people up to date on the latest things I’m posting or working on.   It’s also become a great portal for a whole bunch of my food...

By Mike Hawkins www.foodfunk.ca Today is the day we start dreaming. Last night, it snowed.  It snowed and snowed and then the temperature plunged.  The thermometer isn’t going to get above minus nine Celsius today. Whammo, it’s winter. So we dream.  We dream of warmer air, of sunny heat, of...

Well, I’m sick as a damn dog.   Runny nose, aches, pains, and coughing up one-pound blocks of lung butter. I’ve got a full blown cold.   I picked it up in Ontario, by the way.  A nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to inhale there. Thankfully, I have the cure for the common cold. ...

By Mike Hawkins Last week a sommelier friend of mine gave me five bottles of Shiraz wine with the instructions that because each of them had already been opened and sampled, I was to consume them within three or four days. Otay.  Mishun accomblished…*hiccup*. Do you see stars? Anyway, I found...