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 [...]

The other day my work bestie was raving about this soup and gave me the recipe.  I admit it looked pretty delicious and I NEVER covet other people’s lunches.  It sounded right up my alley with all the thai flavour and meatballs (I LOVE meatballs) so convincing me to make it was hardly a task.  [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

One of my food goals for 2010 is to learn how to make great pizza.  Pizza is one of my favourite food groups (up there with doughnuts and bacon) so me not being able to make a perfect pizza drives me nuts.  I understand the limitations of my home oven but I’ve been pretty confident [...]

I’ve had Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Bastianich for a while but I don’t use it that often… for no reason.  The few times I”ve made stuff out of the cookbook they’ve been pretty yummy like these spaghetti and meatballs.
I was bored one day and looking for meal ideas when I thought making a lasagna [...]

First of all Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers!  Such interesting timing for this installment of Barefoot Bloggers! This week’s pick comes from Lisa at LIme in the Coconut (who has a great blog!).  I’m always up for cooking a big hunk of meat in wine and tomatoes!
I got inspired by this recipe and [...]

Don’t you love the name of this chili?  I think that’s what drew me to it.  I was craving chili the other day and normally I would make my normal chili (blogged about here). I don’t have a strict recipe, I kind of just use my judgment and throw things into the pot.  It works [...]

Truth be told one of my fave meals is the meatball plate at IKEA.  Yes, the quality of the food has fallen off in recent years but whenever I’m at IKEA (which happens quite often since I work within walking distance of one) I just HAVE to have the meatballs.  I think it’s because I [...]