Carolyne's Recipes

Former top-producing Realtor and REM columnist Carolyne Lederer-Ralston recently released Gourmet Cooking - At Home With Carolyne, an Amazon Kindle ebook.

With any of these dishes a small side serving of my herb-marinated Canadian creamy goat cheese coins will be a taste bud tantalizer.

Who would have thought such a simple yet slightly differently prepared mix would be worth reinventing?

For those who imbibe, offer a cool glass of ruby port. What a beautiful paired meal. Make it for family or for entertaining. Just make multiples of the puff pastry wrapped pork loins, roasted simultaneously.

Holiday entertaining, anyone? Here’s a special gourmet plate that has an unspeakable visual quality as well as being a marriage of delicious flavours.

A real “shell-a-bration” of a unique kind. Tell your guests to bring a big appetite and be prepared to indulge over a few hours of at-table enjoyment and be sure to forewarn them dinner is all seafood.

As many of our readers know, I keep a large jar of fresh, not dried, black (blue) mission figs, either Spanish or Italian, in my refrigerator at all times soaking in brandy.

For this recipe, you should prepare all the items ahead of time but keep everything separate and refrigerated. Assemble it near to serving time.

These are plain and simple sandwiches but there’s nothing ordinary about them. Fresh is always better, and likely better food.

I was rearranging my pantry shelf, and I came across a large container of preserved prunes. This is a quick and easy sauce to make and it keeps well in a glass-covered container in the fridge for several days.