If you’re ever looking for a dish to impress that special someone, look no further than the classic Italian dumpling, gnocchi.   While it might seem like a risky kind of thing to attempt for a date meal if you haven’t done it before, it’s actually a good one because you can...

Under pressure for a quicker bean. Contrary to what you might think, I don’t really like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen.   My bread can take four hours from start to finish but my time with it is less than 15 minutes.   My all-day ribs take, you know, all friggin’ day, but...

What a perfect time of year for some Greek food.   Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, onion; all in abundance, all fabulous, all locally grown and cheap as the dirt they’re grown in.   My tomatoes in the salad below hail from my parents own garden in Smiths Cove, Nova Scotia, just outside...

The plan was to roast a whole pig. Mother Nature though, that greasy bitch, wasn’t having it. The swine was fine. A 62 pound specimen grown in the Sussex, New Brunswick area and delivered beautifully cleaned and fresh to a local restaurant where we picked it up last Thursday. My friend...

It seems simple enough – bacon and eggs. A simple breakfast though is where a cook can really shine, or stink up the joint. Try having breakfast at any Greater Saint John area restaurant to experience just how lousy the execution can truly be. Cooking a decent egg takes finesse and...

Alright, stop buying bread. Stop it right now. Dust off that KitchenAid mixer you got when you got married five years ago and whip out a dough blade. It’s time to make some freakin’ bread. Commercial bread blows. It really blows. It is flavourless, nutritionless garbage, to be be...

After serving a steak and lobster dinner for 26 great people from a campsite at Fundy National Park on Saturday, I’m back home and back in action in my own kitchen. Watch for a new feature this week – video! Some things just have to be visually shown to really nail it...