My brother and father would kill me if they knew that this was my excuse for pizza: a few years ago, my father built a pizza oven in our backyard, and it…
Category: Recipes
L’Entrecôte
SCENE: Evening. You are seated at a long wooden table at a small, intimate restaurant in Paris, illuminated only by candlelight, waiting patiently for the waitress to arrive. “How would you like…
Anne’s Food
I found the recipe for these Chocolate Chai Snickerdoodles on Anne’s Food. To be fair, they’re not her recipe, but her presentation of them made me want to try. I’ve been reading…
Easy Korean Food
*Foodgasm.* I know… beautiful isn’t it? Spicy, warm, flavourful… and I made it all by myself. OK… that’s a lie. I cheated a *little* bit. What the heck do you want from…
Ginger Cookies
“Is this gingerbread?” “No.” “It looks like gingerbread…” “It’s not. It’s a cookie.” “Are you sure?” Yes… I’m sure, Michael. I baked them. They’re not gingerbread. They’re Bon Appetit’s Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice…
Mennonite Festival
Living in cities is amazing. Every day, there is the opportunity to see something new. Not everyone takes advantage of these opportunities; I know for a long time I didn’t, but I…
Weird Cauliflower
Ok… so… I died a little bit. That’s not exactly true (although I have caught a lovely flu, which makes me cough like someone with TB and whine every few minutes to…
Road Trip
Nowadays, it seems to be all the rage to eat at roadside diners. Celebrity chef Alton Brown has made the concept into a show, Feasting on Asphalt, and everyone else seems to…
Pasta Primavera nel’Inverno
In the winter? I know… but sometimes I want pasta primavera before the primavera. It’s a little more wintery than usual, with just zucchini and onions and spinach pasta. I tossed all…
Baking
I have heard the oft stated “I can’t bake” too many times to count. I’ll admit I’ve even said it myself… but that is all going to change. A few weeks ago,…