Adventures of a Home Cook
This is the perfect winter salad. It has the elements that make up all great salads: acid, crunch, a little bitterness, some sweet, and crispy, toasty croutons. It incorporates citrus for colour and sweetness, which (in Canada at least) is just as good in December …
I am far from a vegetarian, but I am very interested in new salad and vegetable recipes. Nothing excites me like a new spin on old greens. A great salad recipe is one that is versatile: it can be substituted with what is in your …
Every year for my mother’s birthday she requests the same meal: hamburgers, old fashioned potato salad and lemon-aid cake (recipe will be coming soon!). The sheer volume of meat and potato salad consumed by a tiny little woman is quite impressive. We are talking twice …
Pasta salads have justifiably gotten a bad rep. Too often they are slopped in mayo, soggy, and bland. They also come with the added game of food poisoning Russian roulette, whenever encountered at an outdoor BBQ or picnic. It is no wonder most people avoid …
Miss me? I just returned from a sunny vacation with the fam at our cottage in Northern Michigan. It was the perfect combination of sun, swimming, and relaxation. One of those vacations where nothing extraordinary is ever done, and yet I know I will remember …
I have been accused on many occasions of being too “fancy”. I love dinner parties, especially the ones where I pull out my china, assign seating with little placeholders, and pull out my crystal wineglasses. Apparently this comes across as stuffy. I have no idea …
I have became slightly obsessed with kale. And for those of you who do not know me, I am not the granola, hippie type. Although I do make my own granola and believe that Birkenstocks are the most comfortable summer footwear….perhaps I’m in denial? Perhaps …
I am entirely over winter. I am done with snow, with coats, with multiple layers and endless cold. I am even done with comfort food. I want fresh, crisp greens. I want to cook with handfuls of herbs that come from my garden and not …
For Christmas I received the best gift: Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook Simple. For those of you not familiar with him, he is a chef, restaurateur and cookbook author, who brought us those wildly unpopular cookbooks Plenty and Jerusalem. I consider him to be the ultimate …
I am always looking for new and interesting ways to use vegetables. This is especially true in the summer when produce is plentiful, my eyes are bigger than my stomach at the Farmer’s Market, and my garden produces all of its vegetables at one time. …