Eating – with abundance

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”

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”

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”

Creamy Lemon-Tarragon Pasta

This creamy pasta dish is certainly my house meal. Lemon and tarragon is a classic flavour combination that I never tire of, but sometimes I’ll swap the tarragon for basil, or omit the herbs alltogether.

Pomegranate Cannellini Salad

If I could live forever in only one season, it would definitely be fall. I’m perpetually cold in the winter and⁠—and as a British Columbian⁠—I’ve never adjusted to the humidity of Ontario’s warmer weather. That said, there are a few things winter has going for it. Namely, affordable pomegranates! Every year, I do a subtleContinue reading “Pomegranate Cannellini Salad”