Recently, I’ve been having a wicked craving for Cuban food.  Problem is there’s barely any Cuban food in Toronto.  I always here about a place called Julie’s Cuban but it gets mixed reviews and I never remember it when I’m picking restaurants.  When I lived in New York there were a ton of Cuban restaurants [...]

My quest for the perfect pizza continues.  I was not happy to let my previous endeavour be my authoritative post on the Mario Batalie Otto pizza dough recipe.  I had to give it another shot especially since I”m pretty sure the problem was my yeast.
This time my dough rose properly and actually looked like pizza [...]

A few months ago I was so pumped to finally buy Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking Vol. 1. Something happened shortly after and I didn’t really make any other recipes.  I mean, I always MEANT to open up the book when doing my menu planning but other dishes got in the [...]

Okay, for this week’s Barefoot Bloggers I’m cheating a bit.  When  I saw that this week’s pick was for Ina’s Baked Shrimp Scampi I was a bit disappointed. I make this ALL THE TIME. Seriously at least once or twice a month.  The recipe is great the way it is so I never make any [...]

Hello all!  After  week’s vacation in Jamaica I’m back to the cold and the blogosphere.  Sadly no Jamaica related posts… it really wasn’t a take pictures of your food kind of vacation, although I did do some good eating.  I ate a ton of fresh-caught, never frozen fish, locally grown yams, bananas, mangoes, pineapples, sugar [...]

I love ribs.  Part of me thinks they should be a food group to themselves.  But alas that won’t happen.  I make ribs a few different ways and am always on the lookout for new ways to make them.  Having always lived in an apartment I’ve never been able to do the whole backyard grilling [...]

Yes, it’s that time of year again!  Last year I did a post about what to serve at your Superbowl party which was a lot of fun for me.  This year I figured I would capture the magic one more time!
This year it’s the New Orleans Saints vs. the Indianapolis Colts in Miami.  A group [...]

My quest for the perfect pizza continues. This time the crust recipe came via Everybody Loves Pizza by Penny Pollack and Jeff Ruby.  I can’t remember exactly how I acquired this book but it was likely during my stint interning in network news or when I worked in the TV production world.  Either way [...]

Doesn’t this look like a Fred Flintstone kind of meal?  A big hunk of meat on a bone?  I definitely felt like a total cave(wo)man eating this!
A few weeks ago a bunch of got together for an event referred to as Meatluck. So named because every dish from starters to dessert HAD to contain meat.  [...]

What’s that line from that old movie? “I coulda been a contenda” or something like that… that’s how I felt about this dish.  It had all the making for deliciousness but I had to go and screw it up.
I love shrimp. I love cheesy spinach. I love meals that come together quickly.  It was natural [...]