I have decided to spin off the food section of this blog into its own entity: food.erwingerrits.com.

I am in the process of moving over the recipes I had on this blog, and am adding new ones as we make them. The theme will be Good Food Made Easy. My wife and I are trying to make healthy meals (mostly low GI) with less and less salt, fat, sugar, processed ingredients.

It will not so much be a “heath food” blog, but more a blog about how ordinary people, who may not be cooking so much due to various reasons, can pick up a spatula and create nice tasting, healthy meals from scratch in under 30 minutes. And in the process they may read more

These are a favourite of mine. Very rich, and very yummy. Easy to make with one bowl mixing and no fuss rolling of dough.

Ingredients for bottom:

9 x 13 baking pan
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c butter (softened)
2 large egg yolks
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 1/2 c flour

In an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the yolks and vanilla and beat on high speed. Once incorporated, slow down the mixer and slowly add the flour until just incorporated (the dough will be crumbly). Do NOT over-process.

Prepare two sheets of waxed paper 10 x 14. Line your hands with plastic wrap and take the dough out of the bowl and shape it into a ball, read more

I thought I’d make a french onion soup for lunch while taking a break from the website stuff. Now, I know french onion soup is more of a winter dish, but hey, have you looked at the temperature lately? The soup turned out really nice, so I took a picture and decided to give you the recipe, should you be interested.

The main ingredient in this soup is not onions, it’s time: it takes about two hours to make two bowls of soup, so don’t start this as a last minute what-the-hell-are-we-making-for-lunch type of meal. It’s a lot of standing and stirring.

Remember, this makes TWO bowls, multiply all ingredients according to your number of guests:

• 3 medium onions, thinly sliced (makes about read more

The Heart and Stroke Foundation released a ridiculous report this week about the cost of healthy foods across Canada. It found that Calgarians pay much more for healthy foods than say, Ottawa or even North Bay (if you know North Bay, you’d know it’s slightly… uhm… “out of the way”, adding transportation costs), and that in general, healthy foods are more expensive than unhealthy foods. They are implying that price is the biggest factor in Canadians eating less healthy.

The report relies heavily on volunteers who fed their families for a week by shopping at regular well known grocery stores. Items included 6 apples, bag of potatoes, whole wheat pasta, brown rice, 1% milk, cheddar cheese, lean ground beef, peanut butter read more