This is a tasty salad and chicken schnitzel combo I came across about a year ago on Epicurious. The original salad recipe calls for frisee and belgian endive. The first time I made it I substituted arugula for both because my grocery store doesn’t carry either frisee or beligian endive. Lame, I know. A few
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A super quick post this morning to shout to to a seriously amazing vegetable tortellini soup I made last night. A few weeks ago I came across the recipe at Sing For Your Supper, and last night (with all the slushy, rainy, windy, horribleness we had going on here in Toronto) was the perfect night
One of my very favourite recipes in recent history is adapted from the Arugula Pesto Wheat Berries recipe on 101 Cookbooks. If you like to cook and you haven’t been to Heidi’s website, I suggest you check it out. Heidi started 101 Cookbooks in 2003(!!!) and it has been growing ever since. It is full
My sister in law Debbie is a fabulous cook; her salads are seriously amazing. She is also a wonderful person. Shortly after the hubs and I announced we were getting married, Debbie started on a project, which resulted in what was far and away our most thoughtful wedding present.* *Thoughtful wedding presents can be great…
I discovered Gabrielle of Honest Fare’s recipe for Beer Bread in a roundabout way through pinterest. (Yet another reason why I love pinterest). I’ve never made bread before, unless standing around while my best friend’s mom made bread with her bread maker counts… At the best of times, I’m not much of a baker so
In April 2006, before our round-the-world trip and while we were still living in Vancouver, the bf-cum-hubs and I came across the little soup cookbook at a garage sale. Despite it being a balmy spring day, I was in a soup kind of mood and – after a little bit of haggling – the lovely
On Monday night I arrived home to the hubs, a beautifully set table, our complicated dinner recipe well on the way to completion, and the news that his laptop stayed overnight at the office. It was the best valentine a girl could ask for. Well, other than this one: (You may recognize that lonely bottle
It was about 2 hours before I planned to go to bed and I had a craving for freshly baked warm peanut butter cookies. Big time. It was a cold and dark night and we’d had a dinner that I had found less than satisfactory (more on that later). I had a case of the
I get very very annoyed spending $1.99 a week on a bunch of cilantro, $1.99 a week on a bunch of italian parsley, and $2.99 a week on a teensy tiny little bag of chives. That’s about $7 a week that is mostly going to end up in a mushy mess in the garbage. So,
In the spirit of blogging about stuff that I love, every week I am going to post a round up of some of the best bits of the internet I came across this week. I’m not going to limit myself by strict rules, but generally I’ll post my favourite post in each of “eat”, “decorate”,
While making my weekly shopping, I noticed I had half of a large butternut squash left over from last week’s Penne with Squash and Black Beans. Not wanting it to go to waste, and not feeling like any of my go-to butternut squash recipes led over to Epicurious. A search for “butternut squash” as the
I have a confession to make. I’ve never cooked dried beans before. Cans are just so easy. And generic brand black beans only set me back something like $1.09 a can. Sure that is way more than their dried friends, but protein for two for $1.09… I’m not complaining. Almost. Every time I use a
I arrived home and it was staring at me. A single, solitary bottle of wine given to me as a holiday gift from my assistant. It has been sitting, alone, in my wine rack for a month, almost begging for me to crack it and savour its deliciousness. However, I have abstained, because this year,
Last week a little blip popped up on my facebook: Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese….. YUM wrote my cousin Angie. And in an instant, I knew I had to have it. My cousin Angie is pregnant, and she served this dish for two pregnant friends. They loved it. I’m not pregnant (and neither is the