One of the downsides to living in Toronto (vs. say the tropics) is the lack of fresh amazing produce available year round. While I don’t strive for a totally local diet there are a few things that I avoid buying when they have to travel miles and miles to get here (strawberries come to mind). [...]
Apr 212010
Clearly I’m a bit behind on my posting. This is what I had for Easter dinner! For me Easter means ham. Growing up my mom would never buy a whole ham because she didn’t like ham and my sister (misguidedly) doesn’t eat pork. So one year when I was living by myself and had no [...]
Mar 092010
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dec 242009
Salmon is such a staple in my house and I’m forever looking for ways to jazz it up. Every once in a while I’ll log onto Epicurious and do a search for salmon and see what strikes my fancy. I came across this recipe for salmon with lentils and was totally intrigued. I love salmon [...]
Nov 202009
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 [...]
I don’t think you guys are ready for this one. I didn’t realize I wasn’t ready until I tasted it. I had a frozen pie crust in my freezer that had been taking up space for weeks. I finally decided to get my act together and figure out what to fill the pie crust with. [...]
Nov 142009
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 [...]
Oct 172009
I love me some shrimp and grits. If you type in “grits” into the search field on this plug about 4 different recipes for shrimp and grits. There’s just something about shrimp on top of creamy grits. While I love the recipes that I normally use I’m constantly on the lookout for new recipes to [...]
Sep 102009
First of all… the photo could have been more delicious but I was STARVING and wanted to consume the goodness right away. No delays when I’ve got the hunger pangs! A few weeks ago I was on a post-work Loblaws (supermarket) run. I had my shopping list but I also had a shopping cart which [...]
