Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Cooking

  • First Night with Chef’s Plate

    Recently, I decided to try Chef’s Plate, a service that delivers groceries and recipes. Essentially, these are dinners that you make yourself. I find I get a bit bored with the things we usually make, even though Mr. Math and I both cook. We end up going out for lunch or dinner once a week,…

  • More Figs

    We talked a while back about figs, and here I am talking about them again. This is what figs usually look like in my corner of the world. They come in boxes like this: My grocery had maybe a dozen of these boxes – half this kind of fig and half of the rounder green…

  • Cooking Experiments

    I like to cook, and I have a fat book full of tested-and-true favourite recipes. Sometimes, though, you need to try something different. Last night, I tried TWO different things. First up, the veggie burgers. I like veggie burgers. I’ve eaten them in restaurants many times and had a feeling I could do better. I…

  • Figs

    I thought I wouldn’t be canning until later this summer, but yesterday I had a surprise. There were figs on the discount cart at the grocery store, 3 packages of them for 99 cents each. I didn’t even realize they had any in stock yet, so I pounced. Figs tend to be expensive in Canada.…

  • Tart It Up

    I’ve told you before about this tart, but now I’m going to tell you more. It’s just so good – and it looks good, too. Medieval food was about presentation as well as taste, and you could pipe this into a great hall with pride. The recipe is from a book called THE MEDIEVAL KITCHEN:…