Adventures of a Home Cook
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 …
My husband is obsessed with growing hot peppers. It humbly started out as a few small varieties in pots on the balcony of our apartment. These pots housed the typical jalapeno and some nondescript red pepper that in retrospect must have been a Cayenne. I …
My sweet and playful son turned 3 years old this week. His birthday dinner request? Shepherd’s Pie. Not pizza or chicken nuggets like most kids. This little munchkin is oddly obsessed with Shepherd’s pie. Ask him what he wants for dinner on any given day …
This is part 2 of our “Lets Make Thanksgiving Stress-Free” posts. Gravy. Gravy stresses a lot of people out. There is the dreaded “lumps” that seem to appear out of nowhere (more on this below). The unclear sense of adequate volume- too much? too little? …
Thanksgiving is here (Canadian Thanksgiving that is). That wonderful time of year when we eat a giant bird and a plate filled with carbs and gravy and declare ourselves thankful- for family, friends and of course giant plates of turkey, carbs, and gravy. Like all …
Cacio e Pepe, the ever increasingly popular pasta dish which is really a grown up version of mac ‘n cheese, is perfect in its simplicity. It has only 3 ingredients, 4 if you count the pasta cooking water. It is the embodiment of minimalist. This …
It appears that most of the world (or at least the social media/instagram world) has completely entered Fall. The only recipes to be found right now include apples or pumpkin-spice. And while I am never one to turn down a piece of apple pie, this …
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 …
According to my children, the best part of the weekend is breakfast. I can’t really argue. After a week of rushing out the door and subsiding on bowls of cereal, there is something wonderful about a lazy Sunday morning filled with pancakes, a proper pot …
