Adventures of a Home Cook
A Dutch Baby is really a funny name for a giant pancake that you cook in the oven. Apparently it is not actually Dutch but German. The term Dutch baby originated from the term “Deutsch”. Like most bastardized translations, English-speaking Americans heard “Dutch” and the …
I have somehow surfaced after the whirlwind which was Easter Weekend, deeply in need of a holiday from our holiday, despite having four days off. Somehow the terms “holiday” and “vacation” have taken on synonymous connotations when they are anything but. A vacation is where …
I must be late to the “bowl craze”. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, foodies and the general population at large have become obsessed with eating food in bowls: burrito bowls, Buddha bowls, poke bowls. Everywhere you turn these days, there are …
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 like my freezer to feel like back-up artillery. As a host, I like knowing that I have a reserve of weaponry to assist in the case of last-minute morning guests and unexpected company that shows up as I’m walking in the house from work. …
There is nothing better than a summer party in July, a cold beer and the smell of burgers on a charcoal barbeque. And then there are those cold winter months in barbeque Siberia when you yearn for the sun on your skin and a burger …
I have spent the last four days (what should be fun March Break with the kids) potty training my two-year-old. Even if I am fortunate enough to make it to the Pearly Gates, I will still have known something of hell. For those of your …
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 …
Remember those fun science experiments you used to do in chemistry class as a kid? My favourites always involved a Bunsen burner and flames that turned colours. Perhaps I am just a giant nerd (no need to comment here), but I always thought that chemistry …
