It is officially cold season! And party season. Alas, one must stay healthy and strong to be able to rock on. With the overflowing abundance of garlic left over from playing defence against the Halloween vampires, I decided to make hostess gifts that will keep my gracious hosts’ immune systems robust and breath pungent. Garlic …
Category Archives: kitchen experiments
self-actualization and bread.
We live in an old, creaky apartment with cracks that crawl up the walls, lumpy hardwood floors, and crooked charm. The harbinger of winter is the sound of the radiators coming on, first with slow grumbling and hisses, building up to rattling like a tin kettle boiling over. Occasionally it sounds like a troll is …
winter is coming.
As the temperature drops, all I want to do is cook things on low and slow. Soups, stews, roasts…things that take a few hours to cook, that need to be eaten in bowls while wearing fuzzy slippers and sweaters. A few years ago I discovered a Persian restaurant in Toronto called Pomegranate. For my first …
yoghurt cheese
While making labneh, an Arab cheese made from drained yoghurt, I have discovered another favourite sound: yoghurt liquid drip dropping.
those striations are a good thing.
Practice pull.
ice cream the way it ought to be – with booze, naturally.
And later today there will be…#vanillabourbonicecream #boozyisbetter
a matter of rehydration.
Growing seaweed.
i’ve always wanted to do this.
I made my own vanilla ice cream by hand with a bowl and wooden spoon, without an ice cream maker - !!! My forearms feel very powerful. I’ve wanted to make ice cream at home for ages, and always that it would be unachievable without an ice cream maker – but in the spirit of seizing …
The Heart of Yassa
Many moons ago a few friends and I tried a Senegalese restaurant for dinner. It was in a part of town that I had frequented many times before, but I had never noticed it. On a quiet street, its dusty glass door revealed a set of paint-chipped stairs, which carried us up to a simply …
Balls, baby!
Mmm, balls. It seems that the darling snack of the vegan/yoga/healthy/holistic world are these little round packages that are often raw, made with nuts to give a punch of protein, perhaps some oats for fibre, maybe dried fruit for sweetness, and chocolate to satisfy all females. As I become slightly stricken with panic if I’m …