Food + Drink Articles

We had our first cafe meet up here in snowy Winnipeg last week.    

Christmastime offers the perfect excuse to bake. And since the tanking economy has us all tightening the purse strings, DIY gifts are back in vogue.  A fat Santa cookie jar filled to the brim with your secret recipe cookies is both more practical and thoughtful than a random gift card.

At ChickAdvisor H.Q we have been test driving the Breville Cafe Roma Espresso Machine.  Long time Krupp devotees, we were curious to see how this handsome new machine stacked up. Could it deliver the perfect latte or is it just another pretty face?



Several bags of beans and heaps of foam later, we have come to the conclusion that our shiny new friend is no slouch. Not only does it deliver...

Every year we sing carols about Figgy Pudding but who actually knows what that is?  Did you know it is actually really a cake?  From all accounts, Figgy Pudding became popular in the 19th century.  How it ended up becoming part of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" we have no idea.

If you are feeling extraordinarily festive this year and want to make something fun and kind of obscure,...

A friend recently told me she had lost 10lb in a 2 days by trying a new diet that was essentially starvation: 1 cup of black coffee with 1/2 cup of cottage cheese for breakfast, a lettuce leaf for lunch and an apple, and a small salad with chicken for dinner.  "I'm eating absolutely no carbs!", she crowed.  She's 170, trying to lose 30 pounds.  She seemed excited and I...

Doesn't the smell of baking make you feel warm and happy no matter what the weather? A good recipe should always be shared - especially if it has some justifiably health ingredients such as bananas. So what if you eat the cake for breakfast? It's bananas! So you put it in a bowl and heaped globs of fresh ice cream on it? That's 5 important food groups: Dairy, grains, protein (the eggs)...

Saying 'food should taste good' isn't exactly a marketing stroke of genius... unless you are referring to the lot of healthy snack food out there that measures up in ingredients but fails miserably in taste. 

I happened upon a bag of FoodShouldTasteGood Multigrain chips in the grocery store and decided to see if they lived up to the name.  Tortilla style cracker chips made...