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 [...]

During the winter months I’m always on the lookout for new soup recipes.  Soup is one of my favourite things to eat for lunch during the winter and it tends to be healthy.  After a great cup of soup while at Angelica Kitchen in New York, I decided to pull out my copy of their [...]

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 been a fan of Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks for awhile.   She’s definitely one of the “mega” food bloggers out there and she focuses on vegetarian, vegan and natural cooking.  The photograpy is awesome and the recipes are neat.
One of my friends is currently on a soba noodle kick.  She’s obsessed, an intervention might [...]

Me and this recipe go waaaay back.  I found it in Bon Appetit back in 2005 and have loved it ever since.  Prior to seeing this in Bon App I had never even thought about the idea of Sweet Potato Gnocchi but when I read the recipe it sounded oh so right.
Now you’re probably thinking [...]

Ever since my meal at Chez Omar in Paris I’ve been dreaming about couscous with vegetable stew.  So of course I spent a while trying to find something to replicate it.
The closest I came was this recipe over at Smitten Kitchen. Interestingly enough their quest for a couscous recipe was triggered by a visit to [...]

Yay!  I think I’m officially on track with my Barefoot Blogging. Hopefully this means that my hiatus is over.
This week’s pick comes courtesy of Summer of Sexy Apartment. I was a bit hesitant at first when I saw that she chose souffle.  I mean who choses souffle??  I was annoyed initially because it [...]

Butternut squash soup is quite possibly my favourite type of soup.  I love the creaminess (without cream), the sweetness and the fact that it just seems so healthy!  Over the years I’ve played with various recipes.  Some were all squash, some involved apples or apple juice, some were spiced with ginger etc.  I was flipping [...]

So I had this eggplant just hanging out in my fridge needing to be used up.  I didn’t want to BUY another eggplant in order to make a large eggplant dish (it felt counterproductive) so instead I started looking for recipes featuring eggplant.  I’d also been craving pasta so I started searching for some sort [...]

It feels like I’ve been away from Barefoot Bloggers for a minute! It’s nothing personal really, I just haven’t been cooking as much as I usually do. I’ve been out of town the past few weekends and I’ve generally just been lazy in life. ::le sigh:: But I’m back and better than [...]