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How to Eat Popcorn Like a Salt Springer

March 10, 2014 By Korena in the Kitchen 33 Comments

The Salt Spring Island movie theatre opened when I was about ten – I remember because one of the first films shown was the digitally re-mastered, re-released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was probably only the third film I’d ever seen in a theatre. [Edit: Apparently my memory is faulty, because Nate remembers the movie theatre being open waaaaaay earlier, and unfortunately for me, it turns out he’s right. It changed hands in the early 1990s so I must be remembering the re-opening, because I swear I never saw any movies there when I was really young…! Anyway, back to the story.] Community hall by day and movie theatre by night, when I was twelve it was also the scene of my very first ever date with a boy (I wasn’t allowed to see Dangerous Minds so we watched Babe), where we sat on folding chairs because only the first few rows were proper theatre seats. Instead of the celebrity gossip and pop culture “entertainment” that precedes movies these days, they would show slide shows featuring community events, and more often than not you’d see yourself or someone you knew on the screen while you waited in line at the concession, which brings me to the best part of the Salt Spring movie theatre: the popcorn. Real popcorn with real butter instead of a coating of yellow “butter flavour”, it only cost a few dollars a bag rather than upwards of $15 for popcorn and a drink. And to season it, instead of dill pickle or cheese flavouring, there were big shakers of nutritional yeast – because on Salt Spring, we eat our popcorn yeasted. And it’s delicious.

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Filed Under: Recipes, Soups, Sides & Snacks Tagged With: nutritional yeast, popcorn, Salt Spring Island, snacks, The Canadian Food Experience Project

Would you like some cookie with your chocolate?

June 18, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 6 Comments

Reverse Chocolate Chip Cookies | Korena in the KitchenWhile I’ve definitely made my fair share of regular chocolate chip cookies, the reverse chocolate chip cookie – that is, chocolate dough studded with white chocolate chips – has eluded me. Until now.

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes Tagged With: baking, chocolate, cookies, recipe, reverse chocolate chip cookies, snacks

Korena’s Cookies

June 12, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 7 Comments

Korena's Cookies | Korena in the KitchenThis is a cookie recipe that I came up with when I was about 12 years old, and I tell ya, I was onto something! It’s been a while since I last made them but they’re just as good as I remember: buttery, chewy oatmeal cookies with a hint of caramel from brown sugar, loaded with chocolate chips, nuts, and dried fruit. They are thick and almost cake-like in the middle, and thin, lacy, and crisp around the edges. Seriously delicious.

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes Tagged With: baking, chocolate chips, cookies, oatmeal, recipe, snacks

Daring Bakers: Crisp Flatbreads and Crackers

February 27, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 26 Comments

Daring Bakers Crisp Flatbreads & CrackersSarah from All Our Fingers in the Pie was our February 2013 Daring Bakers’ host and she challenges us to use our creativity in making our own Crisp Flatbreads and Crackers!

I had some trouble getting into this month’s challenge. I don’t eat a lot of crackers in the first place, so the desire to make them myself isn’t that strong, I guess. I kind of feel like I phoned this one in, which sucks because I also know how much work our host, Sarah, put into choosing, testing, and presenting the challenge recipes. So please don’t judge this challenge by my lack of enthusiasm. Instead, check out the amazing assortment of crispy, crunchy snacks the other Daring Bakers made this month.

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Filed Under: Daring Bakers / Daring Kitchen Challenges, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes, Soups, Sides & Snacks Tagged With: baking, cheesy flatbread, crackers, Daring Bakers, honey flatbread, Raincoast Crisps, recipe, snacks

Daring Bakers: Going Crackers!

July 27, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 38 Comments

Our July 2012 Daring Bakers’ Host was Dana McFarland and she challenged us to make homemade crackers! Dana showed us some techniques for making crackers and encouraged to use our creativity to make each cracker our own by using ingredients we love.

Homemade crackers are one of those things I’ve seen recipes for and thought, “I should make those!” but never got around to actually doing it. Maybe because they’re not loaded with sugar or chocolate? (That seems to be what attracts me these days…) Or maybe because I don’t eat a lot of crackers on a regular basis? Whatever the reason, it’s now moot, because Dana’s challenge was to make not one, but two kinds of crackers, by two different methods: rolled by hand, by pasta machine, or by the slice-and-bake/icebox method….

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Filed Under: Daring Bakers / Daring Kitchen Challenges, Recipes, Soups, Sides & Snacks Tagged With: appetizers, baking, cheese, crackers, Daring Bakers, dried fruit, fig and walnut, food, homemade crackers, recipe, Romano cheese, savoury shortbread, seedy crackers, snacks

Sourdough Danish Pastries, Part III

June 9, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 14 Comments

This is the last post in a series of three – click to read Part I and Part II.

Here’s what I did with the rest of the sourdough Danish pastry that I tucked away in the freezer: Chocolate Chip-Cream Cheese Spirals and Cinnamon-Sugar Scrolls. Both super easy and pretty darn tasty!

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Filed Under: Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: baking, brunch, Danish scrolls, Danish spirals, laminated dough, palmiers, snacks, sourdough, sourdough Danish, tutorial

Mark Bittman’s Amazing Brownies

June 5, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 11 Comments

I am currently navigating my way through some silly government bureaucracy, and if you’ve ever had the misfortune to be in that position, you probably know that (regardless of which government you’re dealing with) it can seem like an endless string of hoop jumping, inordinately long waiting periods, and many frustrating encounters with a wretched automated phone menu….

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Cookies & Squares, Recipes Tagged With: baking, brownies, cheesecake brownies, chocolate, dessert, Mark Bittman's brownies, mocha cheesecake brownies, recipes, snacks

Sourdough Danish Pastries, Part II

May 24, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 39 Comments

This is the second post in a series of three – click to read Part I and Part III.

As promised, here’s the follow-up to my last post on Danish pastries: how to shape and fill the Danishes. So fun!

I got really excited about the different Danish shapes I was going to make, so I tried a whole bunch of them. They were all pretty successful so I’m confident that I can pass along my skillz ;). I only used half the batch of dough to make these (I couldn’t justify making sixteen Danishes for only two of us) so I will be experimenting with the rest of the dough sometime soon… stay tuned for Part III! ;)…

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Filed Under: Bread, Breakfast & Brunch, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brunch, cheese Danish, cream cheese filling, Danish pastry, Danish shapes, how to shape Danish, laminated dough, pinwheel, recipe, snacks, vol-au-vent

Sourdough Danish Pastries

May 20, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 76 Comments

This is the first post in a series of three – click to read Part II and Part III.

In my last post, I was extolling the virtues of making something simple from scratch. Now I am going to extol the virtues of making something rather complicated from scratch: Danish pastries using sourdough starter. Yes, we are doing this!

At the end of April, I wrote a list of stuff I wanted to make for this blog over the summer, and Danish pastries was on it. I had my first taste of making laminated dough when the Daring Bakers made croissants a while back, and I wanted to try it again. But I was kind of putting it off because it’s a lot of butter and a lot of work: all that rolling and folding and rolling and folding and resting and waiting. Then, during the Daring Bakers reveal last month, I came across Sourdough Surprises, which is another baking group that a few Daring Bakers members have created to bake together once a month using their sourdough starters. And their recipe for May was sourdough Danishes! Well, it seemed like fate. I was in….

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Filed Under: Bread, Breakfast & Brunch, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brunch, Danishes, fruit, laminated dough, pastries, recipe, snacks, sourdough starter, Sourdough Surprises

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