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Mushroom Lentil Pot Pies, Cowboy Cookies and my new BBQ
I feel like I’m stuck in another cooking rut… eggs and hashes for breakfast, quesadillas and leftovers for lunch, steak and veggies for dinner. So I’m trying to make my meals more exciting… try new...
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Stuffed Shells
I knew I wouldn’t have much time to cook when I got back from Sasquatch, so I made a huge batch of stuffed shells to last me the week. Needless to say, I’m pretty sick of them by now, but they were...
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A Delicious Way to Use Up Leftovers…
as·pic/ˈaspik/ Noun: A jelly made with meat or fish stock, usually set in a mold and used as a garnish. - A lot of the time, people just use plain old lemon jello… maybe with a little tomato juice...
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Whiskey Sour
This is the most delicious drink I have tasted in a long time. It is called a whiskey sour. I found it when I was looking through my mom’s “Cocktails” book… my favourite childhood reading. Consists of...
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Food porn, 11/11/11.
I read Luxirare religiously, so you can imagine my delight when I found Laura Santini’s Umami Paste for sale at a Granville island vendor. After reading about it in her Crispy Penne post, I got...
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The gluten-free thing is my new thing
Since Christmas, I’ve been eating gluten free. This blurb in December’s Bon Appetit magazine intrigued me to try it out: “I’m not eating pizza and I’m psyched. No, I don’t have celiac disease. Yes, I...
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Gluten-Free Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
Normally if I was stuffing mushrooms, I’d go with breadcrumbs, sausage and ricotta. Since I’m gluten-free now, I had to come up with a recipe that omits the breadcrumbs, so I just went with what I had...
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Kimchi
In November, I started working at a Japanese restaurant around the corner from my house in East Vancouver. Like many Japanese restaurants in the city, this one is owned and operated by Koreans. Aside...
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Chai Spiced Almond Milk Recipe
As a designer who reads a lot of food blogs, I tend to be overly critical of elements like typeface, lighting, colour balance, photo quality, spacing. You know, aesthetic stuff. Every idiot and their...
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Prelude to summer: Backyard meals
The last few weeks have been thoroughly blissful. Being “between jobs” for me has meant spending luxurious amounts of time planning out, shopping for, and crafting elaborate meals. Much to the benefit...
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