Once in Los Angeles, the formidable and wonderful Niloufer Ichaporia King (how about THAT for a cool name) did a book signing in a landscape architect’s stud...

I don’t know if we ever discussed this, but the name Hainan Meatballs is entirely a made up one. I made up this recipe many years ago, and instead of calling...

Drink yourself silly this week-end: on pasta! He's not called the Prince of Pasta around town for no reason. Chef Mitch Orr might belong to the celebrity rat...

When Michael and I were getting a crash course in each other one humid summer in Washington DC many many years ago, we'd eat at the various Ethiopian and Per...

Thai fish cakes are always my favourite. And yet, they can be disappointing in a restaurant: some places add flour which makes them taste like deep friend no...

Husband Michael printed this recipe off from New York Times Cooking and it sat on the kitchen bench for a few days until he had the time to make it. Gotta be...

The phase of slow cooking. We’re home, with time on our hands enabling us to make complicated things that take days…. like bread, or a slow cooked tagine. Bu...

Samin Nosrat of the famed Salt Fat Acid Heat cookbook and tv show wrote with joyful enthusiasm in the New York Times Cooking column about a favourite West Vi...

Husband tore this recipe out of a week-end paper recently and in this current state of 'what's in the cupboard' rather than who's going to the market scenar...

The perfect excuse to cook Japanese Recently Jen in St. Louis sent the message out to resurrect our ten year old Toronto Supper Club we had formed while all ...

Originally posted on March 30, 2015 This was a very quiet week-end in comparison to last! There were three young boys in the house last week-end with their p...

Originally posted on July 30, 2016 Everyone’s always got a plastic container in the fridge at some time with languishing left over spaghetti.  You know, the ...

Originally posted on July 25, 2017 I made this last night, second time in quick succession because I woke up this morning to find this message from our globe...

Originally posted August 16, 2016 I made this when we got home from a road trip on the week-end.  Whiling away the long hours  in the car, thinking about thi...

Originally posted on June 8, 2015 It has been unusually cold in Sydney. But I  should really try to keep it all in perspective because only three years ago ‘...