Breakfast, Lunch, Tea is one of my favourite cookbooks, written by Rose Carrarini. I love the quiet wholesomeness that she evokes through her food. I was lucky enough a few years ago to visit Paris and have a piece of carrot cake at her restaurant, Rose Bakery. I think we found it just as they …
Category Archives: big meals
All wrapped up
For the past few months I’ve been having a serious preoccupation with wrapped food, by which I mean food encased in a dough or pastry filling. As comforting as it is to sit wrapped up in a blanket on the couch, it is even more comforting to eat food wrapped up, while wrapped up on …
12 eggs
One of the qualities I admire most is elegance. Women who walk like they have a tea cup balanced on their head, the slope of a swan’s neck, the way water pours out of a tall glass pitcher….these things are elegant to me. One thing I like even more than elegance is when it is …
Travels via dinner
This time, a meal to transport us to the Mediterranean. A random weeknight: roasted eggplant, pepper, and zucchini, with a walnut parsley pesto to smear on top. New potatoes tossed with minced parsley and olive oil before being roasted, so the parsley dried to a crispiness that dissolved on the tongue. White wine, to wash …
a spicy souvenir.
The Muffin Man brought back curry paste from his travels to Thailand, over a year ago. We are still reliving the glory of international travel. Massaman curry, less the traditional potatoes, instead served over a tangled bundle of flat rice noodles. A gravelly sprinkle of cashews on top, and lemon to squeeze over (and probably …
Cream of mushaboom
All that talk about Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom the other day gave me a hankering for my own version of creamy mushroom goodness. I have a copy of the 1960 edition of Elizabeth David’s French Provincial Cooking, which is said to have changed how the British cooked, just like how Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of …
Macamacaroni
I remember Sundays when I was growing up as being rather groggy and lethargic days. Finally the adrenaline of the week had run out, and the sharpness of mind rendered from low sleep and cramming for tests between field hockey practice had faded. After a week of churning out delicious dinners with the required starch-vegetable-protein …
I heart immersion blender
Immersion blender, you’re the best,The way you blend I can’t protest,Smoothies, soups, purees and more,Why did I not have one before? I loooove my new immersion blender. My big boxy blender broke a few weeks ago, and it was a blessing in disguise. $19.99+tax later, I have a delightful new immersion blender that puts my …
Enjoyment, within reason
Brave New World. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Fahrenheit 451. Dystopian fiction paints a picture of a world that is not, but very well could be, if power were placed in the hands of the unjust and unreasonable. A gourmand’s dystopia would be one where all food was abolished, and all we needed were “nutrients”: a little pill …
camping feasts.
Camping = beans + sausage + Hello Kitty pasta