Adventures of a Home Cook
In a typical response to the indulgence of the holidays, I spend much of January embarking on a healthy(ish) approach to eating; less meat, no frying, trying to avoid anything resembling a bake good. I forced myself back into our basement workout room for the …
This is my last of three posts highlighting recipes from Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley’s book Falastin. This week I am talking about their delicious spin on the classic Fattoush Salad. This recipe has all of the elements of the great Middle Eastern restaurant classic- …
I have returned from a brief hiatus. With the US border remaining closed to Canadians we have sadly (cue violins and weeping) not been able to travel to our family cottage for another summer. And so many Canadians have done during COVID, we travelled within …
Since having children I have really embraced the public library. My favourite use is taking out cookbooks as a test run, before deciding if I love them enough to purchase. There are so many books that appear great from the cover and write ups, but …
We should all try and be tourists in our own city. For years I travelled to Ottawa and took in the museums and Parliament, I walked the streets during the Tulip Festival and skated on the canal. And then I moved to Ottawa and the …
Admittedly a wedge salad feels like a flashback from every steakhouse restaurant in the ’80s. They are also one of the least healthy so-called salad options, right there behind the beloved taco salad. I’m pretty sure iceberg lettuce is 90% water with no nutritional benefits. …
My daughter started her first day of Grade 1 today. She also decided that today was the day she would refer to me as “Mom” instead of the adorable and childlike “Mama” she usually uses. It’s like she’s trying to hurt me. I have always …
You know that feeling in those first days of Spring, when the temperature barely cracks 60F but the sun is shining and the future of warm, sunny, summer days are before you? When after months of snow and ice and cold you feel so hot …
It occurred to me that I have not posted a recipe that contains a single vegetable since January. Unless you count potatoes….which I do not. I promise that I will not emerge from this quarantine three times my original size. But that is only because …
It is New Years Day: the most ambitious of days. A day where we take stock of our shortcomings and resolve to do better. The vast majority of us declare that we will ‘be healthier’ after a month filled with sugar coated cookies and sour …