Kate's Cuisine

It’s Poisoned Blackberry day! We are celebrating this day around my house with – guess what? Lots and lots of blackberries! I am lucky enough to have a grandmother that has bushes and bushes of blackberries every single year. And every single year, I’ve just unloaded all the blackberries out of my freezer when it’s [...]

It’s International Banana Day! And while we may just take it as a day to indulge in the potassium-filled goodness, there is an actual reason for the day. It all began in Fulton, Illinois…. The United States didn’t have refrigerated railroad cars until 1880, when the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad constructed the first. This invention [...]

Yesterday was a day of celebrating sweetness, as September 1 kicked off National Honey Month. But, September isn’t just a month to celebrate honey – it’s also the month of the chicken! Yep, September is National Chicken Month! This month wasn’t just chosen willy-nilly, or had the “Chicken Month” label slapped on it with little [...]

  We may spread it on a piece of toast in the morning, or add it to our favourite sauces without thinking twice, but what is honey really? Sweet nectar of the Earth is what it is, and September is here to celebrate it – it’s National Honey Month! Of course I’ll be posting wonderful [...]

I’ve thought about adding this post about my favourite cooking term for some time now and being an official newlywed, I feel that it couldn’t be a more appropriate time. As much as I love cooking, there’s not often that I get excited about a specific term just because I love the word, but there’s [...]

It’s something so simple that many of us use on on a daily basis. While it serves such a practical purpose, olive oil also adds tremendous flavour to anything it touches, and the quality and the type you use will greatly determine how your finished dish tastes at the end. I’ve often wondered what the [...]

This week in MasterChef was a very sad one for me. All of them end up being sad, really. I’m at a point now in the competition where I truly like everyone, and I think all of them are very, very talented chefs. Except for Lee. He’s a pooper in my opinion. The episode started [...]