Quiche & Savory Tarts

Mushroom & Goat Cheese Strata

January 6, 2021 Breakfast

For the past five years, my friend Krishna has hosted an epic New Year’s Day brunch. For four out of those five years I didn’t make it, as I typically observe NYD in my PJs and refuse to leave my couch. I finally attended last year and had so much fun that I didn’t resurface […]

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Heirloom Tomato Tart

August 25, 2020 Quiche & Savory Tarts

I’m ready to admit that I will only eat tomatoes in the month of August. The farmer’s market near my house sells their own field tomatoes, which are so fresh that there’s still a little bit of dirt on the outside. They’re dark red, juicy and bursting with so much flavour. How can a pale, […]

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Mini Beef & Guinness Pies

March 21, 2017 Beef & Pork
Mini Beef & Guinness Pie

When Danielle and I went to London, we ate the most delicious savoury pot pies on our first pub night there and I’ve been waning to make my own at home ever since. I finally did it last week, due to the combined forces of Pi Day (3.14….get it???) and St. Patrick’s Day. My go-to […]

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Burst Tomato & Corn Galette

September 12, 2016 Dinner
burst-tomato-corn-galette

Once again another summer has gone by on my blog without a savoury recipe post. It’s been all boozy cocktails and birthday cakes up in here. It’s true, my will to cook is zapped by 40° days, and there are a lot of snack dinners going on, but I did make a couple great things […]

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Samosa Galette

May 7, 2015 Dinner
Samosa Galette

Samosas are something that I always thought were best left to the pros. Two jobs ago, I had a lovely friend on my team that would bring me samosas and a trio of dipping sauces from her local Indian restaurant/bakery/store. She was the best, and those samosas were a joy in my life. She moved […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon & Black Pepper Quiche

May 11, 2014 Baked Sunday Mornings
Lemon & Black Pepper Quiche

I usually love quiche; buttery, flaky crust, rich custard, and delicious filling combinations. Unfortunately this quiche was not for me, and was borderline inedible. I re-read the recipe both during and after baking just to make sure I made it correctly. I did. It’s gross. My Mom and I ate this for lunch today and […]

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Roasted Butternut Squash & Mushroom Pie with Cheddar Pastry {Gastropost Mission #78}

November 23, 2013 Dinner
Roasted Butternut Squash & Mushroom Pie

Mushroom BOOM! That was our challenge for this week, and I knew right away what I wanted to make. Smitten Kitchen’s Mushroom Bourguignon, which is both on her site and in her cookbook. It was warm, cozy, and filling, but just not really a looker. Since I had the day off on Remembrance Day, I […]

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Sweet Potato, Balsamic Caramelized Onion & Goat Cheese Galette

January 21, 2013 Dinner
Sweet Potato, Balsamic Caramelized Onion & Goat Cheese Galette

The #1 galette in my life will always be this Butternut Squash & Caramelized Onion Galette from (where else?) Smitten Kitchen. I told Deb when I met her that it was my favourite thing I’ve made from her site. I’m not really one to mess with perfection, so I never really thought about ways to […]

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Corn & Basil Tart

July 22, 2012 Dinner

Attention, attention! Friends, you need to prepare yourselves. There was an extra special visitor here at Planet Byn last week! The very person who introduced me to food blogs - who unknowingly set this whole world in motion - came for a visit! That’s right, Danielle was here!

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Spanakopita

January 18, 2011 Dinner

In what seems to be a continuing theme of vegetables and cheese wrapped in pastry, here we have Spanakopita, which consists of a savory filling of spinach and feta, wrapped in phyllo dough. This is a greek speciality that you’ve no doubt had as an appetizer on the Danforth, but the filling is really easy to pull together. […]

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