One Wet Foot

This started out as a record of my Daily Shoot adventures, but it may become something more or different down the line. I'm shooting on my iPhone and using Instagram on some of my photos. You can also find me here. All text & images © Teresa McCarthy

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A Gloss of August

Roxy’s International Dog Day Spread The latest dahlia Backyard garden views Balcony flowers

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Baking With Dorie - Miso-Maple Loaf

Baking With Dorie – Miso-Maple Loaf

Like many of the Around My French Table blogging alumni, I only dip into our group posts occasionally these days, but I thought I’d join in to celebrate the release of Dorie’s new cookbook. It’s a baking book, which makes me happy, as baking has always been my favourite thing to do in the kitchen. The excellent folks at Pulpfiction Books made sure I’d have my copy right on time, but if you…

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What a year

How have you been coping this year? I’ve been lucky. Fully employed and mostly able to work from home, with no one close to me affected by Covid-19. I’m going to try to be here again, for a creative outlet and some stress relief. Here’s to a better 2021.

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Dorie's Cookies - Chocolate-Oatmeal Biscoff Cookies

Dorie’s Cookies – Chocolate-Oatmeal Biscoff Cookies

I haven’t made many cookies that people aren’t happy to eat. I’ve made sophisticated cookies, complicated cookies, homely cookies, fancy cookies and more. But, the cookies that people go craziest for, the ones people want to make themselves, or (more often) the ones people ask me to make again are the old-fashioned ones. Cookies that make people think of lunchboxes from a time most of them…

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Everyday Dorie - Salmon Burgers

Everyday Dorie – Salmon Burgers

Spring is a trickster, pouring down rain when you have outdoor plans and serving up glorious sunshine when you’re stuck indoors. I would have loved to be weeding and planting yesterday when it was mild and sunny, but I had a full day’s work and more to do. Today, when I was free(ish), the weather was rainy and chill until well after suppertime.

I was hoping these salmon burgers would be my…

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Baking Chez Moi - Double Chocolate Marble Cake

Baking Chez Moi – Double Chocolate Marble Cake

A simple midweek cake that’s made elegant with white and dark chocolate and spiked with vanilla and almond.

I made them in mini pans, which is what I always seem to do with quick breads these days. My larger pans are used for loaves of bread, not cake. The minis are great for sharing, or freezing and saving for later.

These ones disappeared too fast for freezing.

You can find the rest of the…

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Cook the Book Fridays - Spiced Speculoos Flan

Cook the Book Fridays – Spiced Speculoos Flan

I was missing an essential ingredient for this week’s recipe right up until this evening, finally finding speculoos butter at a grocery store on Commercial Drive, a few blocks from my house. I ran home and started making this even before considering what to have for dinner.

Even so, I just managed to taste one of the flans a few minutes ago, after they first cooled to room temperature and then…

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Dorie's Cookies - Moroccan Semolina and Almond Cookies

Dorie’s Cookies – Moroccan Semolina and Almond Cookies

I haven’t brought a cookie basket to a meeting in a long while. (I guess if I wanted to be current, I’d put them in a box.) My favourite cookie basket was divided between snickerdoodles and chocolate crinkles, both recipes I’ve been making since I was a kid. They look dramatic together, but homey at the same time, and the flavours complement each other well.

Now, I think I’ve got a third…

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Dorie's Cookies - Cranberry Five-Spice Cookies

Dorie’s Cookies – Cranberry Five-Spice Cookies

I baked up a storm the last two weekends, helping stock the bake sale table at the craft fair my mother organizes every year. I made three selections from Dorie’s Cookies this year, including the Cranberry Spice Cookies that were one of this month’s selections. I took out some squash that I’d frozen to make the variation of the Sweet Potato Pie Bars, but my mother got hold of it and turned it…

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Everyday Dorie - Maple Syrup & Mustard Brussels Sprouts

Everyday Dorie – Maple Syrup & Mustard Brussels Sprouts

Just to get this out of the way up front, I was absolutely one of those kids who loved spinach and liver and Brussels sprouts. Though I drank pop when I was a kid, I switched to tea as soon as I was allowed to – I guess what I’m saying is that I’ve always been old.

So, I was delighted that this was a November pick, even if there is no big family dinner on the horizon. I’ll eat Brussels sprouts…

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Cook the Book Fridays - Bay Leaf Pound Cake

Cook the Book Fridays – Bay Leaf Pound Cake

I love the French name for pound cake – weekend cake. The English name is so prosaic, a sort of short-hand recipe. The French name is functional in the best way, evoking family meals, snacks for adventures, and impromptu gatherings with friends. It’s a simple, sturdy cake that’s welcome at almost any occasion.

Its simplicity is also what makes it so open to variation. This week’s cake has…

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Everyday Dorie - “My Newest Gougères”

Everyday Dorie – “My Newest Gougères”

I first made gougères in October of 2010. I’d just started a blog and was looking for some structure to keep me posting, learning, and connecting. I noticed that a cooking group called French Fridays with Dorie was just about to start cooking through a book called Around My French Table. I bought the book and signed up. I liked the idea of cooking my way through an accessible French cookbook,…

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Cook the Book Fridays - Chicken Pot Parmentier

Cook the Book Fridays – Chicken Pot Parmentier

I’ve always been fond of chicken pot pies, cottage pies, veggie pot pies, and shepherd’s pies. They’re the essence of comfort food for me, especially because my mother’s versions have always been so delicious. When we were first starting on Around My French Table, I was introduced to hachis parmentierand I thought I’d found the ultimate expression of this genre of food. I was wrong. This week’s…

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Baking Chez Moi - Bettelman

Baking Chez Moi – Bettelman

The hardest part about this recipe for me was refraining from eating half the loaf of brioche I’d baked with this week’s recipe in mind. I used Dorie’s recipe from the back of Baking Chez Moi for the bread, which always works perfectly. I enjoyed several mornings (and evenings, if I’m being honest) of toast and jam before reserving the rest for this bread pudding.

The Bettelman itself is a…

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Cook the Book Fridays - Madeleines

Cook the Book Fridays – Madeleines

Last weekend was a feast of butter. I made Chicken Pot Parmentier (which I’ll tell you about on the next Cook the Book Friday), brioche, and these madeleines. I’ve had pretty good luck whenever I’ve made madeleines, even getting humps most of the time. This time around, there was something a little off with the texture, with large cracks in the top that I’m not used to seeing and the batter…

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Tuesdays with Dorie - September Omnibus Edition

Tuesdays with Dorie – September Omnibus Edition

Summer is fading quickly, but I’m trying to enjoy the last of the flowers before turning my attention to the changing leaves.

For the first time in forever, it seems, I’ve managed to bake all the selections for this month’s Tuesdays with Dorie. Strange that it happened in a month in I was too busy to blog. So, I’m treating (?) you to an omnibus post of all September’s Baking Chez Moi and Dorie’…

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Cook the Book Fridays - Le Grand Aioli

Cook the Book Fridays – Le Grand Aioli

There was nothing grand about my aioli tonight, if it could even qualify as aioli at all.

I’d planned out which of the fresh markets I’d stop by for the produce, picking up local green beans that looked like they were freshly picked from someone’s back yard (the best!), fingerling potatoes, radishes, carrot, and red pepper. At home, I had cucumbers from my uncle’s garden and garlic from my Dad’s…

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