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Instant Pot Steel Cut Oats with Frozen Berries

Enjoy steel cut oats with frozen berries. This instant pot method will soften them up and suffuse flavour through every inch of your bowl.

Leek & Chèvre Mini Galettes

The ratio of effort to deliciousness for these individual savoury pastries is completely unmatched. If you keep a few rolls of store bought puff pastry in the freezer, you can throw these together whenever you should be so lucky to come across fresh, firm, blemish-free leeks. The hardest part of this recipe is remembering toContinue reading “Leek & Chèvre Mini Galettes”

My Top [Made in Canada] Zero-Proof Drink Picks

It’s reported that millions of people are participating in Dry January—a total abstention of alcohol for the first month of the year. I am not one of them. I have been happily enjoying a glass of wine occassionally during these grey, frigid days (what else to do with the rest of the Sauvignon Blanc afterContinue reading “My Top [Made in Canada] Zero-Proof Drink Picks”

Winter Kale & Pomegranate Salad

I love pomegranates. Pomegranate arils on top of yogurt. Pomegranate juice infused into a cocktail. You name it. I even find the process of scoring, soaking and separating the fruit oddly meditative. So, it’s no surprise that this salad became my go-to lunch for the past week. I made a big batch of it lastContinue reading “Winter Kale & Pomegranate Salad”

Why I’m Nurturing – And Not Resolving – In 2022

It’s already January 5th, which means most of us will keep up illusions about achieving our New Year’s resolutions for about five more weeks. Every year, around the last week of December, I feel a nagging suspicion that the form and practice of annual resolutions are antithetical to achieving goals. And yet, I still appreciateContinue reading “Why I’m Nurturing – And Not Resolving – In 2022”

Zero Proof: 90 Non-Alcoholic Recipes for Mindful Drinking [Review]

Food writer Elva Ramirez has brought her journalistic skill (she spent a decade at the Wall Street Journal before going freelance) to the task of documenting the maturation of the zero-proof cocktail movement around the world. Far from a simple pastiche of recipes from lauded bars and restaurants, Ramirez devotes more than 50 pages toContinue reading “Zero Proof: 90 Non-Alcoholic Recipes for Mindful Drinking [Review]”

Baked Eggs in Ramp Sauce

A plate of eggs baked in a green mixture of ramps and olive oil with two pieces of baguette and a wooden pepper grinder on a blue and white checkered napkin

This is springtime encapsulated in a (mostly) one-pan brunch recipe! The appearance of briefly available spring produce sneaks up on me every year, so when I walked into the market/bottle shop housed inside Leslieville’s Ascari Enoteca in search of soppressata, I initially thought that the bright green in the bottom corner of the fridge wasContinue reading “Baked Eggs in Ramp Sauce”

Top Eats of 2020

While this wasn’t the best year for my food blogging, it was definitely a great year for eating (being home *all the time* makes it a heck of a lot easier to cook every day doesn’t it). See below the tasty things I want to remember, replicate, and enjoy again in 2021. 1. An at-homeContinue reading “Top Eats of 2020”

Haskap Berry Muffins

Aren’t some of the best food creations the result of happy accidents? Only after I began making muffins did I realize I was low on milk. Pulling a can of coconut milk out of the cupboard, and susbtituting half of the regular whole milk for the coconut milk lent an extra boost of healthy fatsContinue reading “Haskap Berry Muffins”

Honey-Ricotta Fruit Dip

I used to have outsize ambitions about what to prepare when heading over to a friend’s place for a meal or celebration. There were cupcakes that would inevitably arrive with flat frosting or salads that felt a little limp upon arrival. The heartiest of dishes might arrive unperturbed, but my arms would be tired afterContinue reading “Honey-Ricotta Fruit Dip”