Occupation: Professional Gasfitter/ semi-professional man of leisure. What did you eat today? A couple slices of toast w/ peanut butter for breakfast (and a couple Doritos… don’t judge me).  Cauliflower soup with a whole wheat roll for lunch (uh, and a couple Doritos… don’t judge me). Caramelized chicken w/ soya sauce and honey, steamed carrots, [...]

I know it’s a bad habit, but as the weather has gotten cooler, our supper hour has migrated away from the dining table and onto the couch. I’d like to blame it on the return of the fall television season and hockey, but it’s just so easy to wind down the evening with dinner and [...]

Do you ever come across a recipe that astonishes you? That makes you wonder why you hadn’t ever tried it before? The kind that only involves a handful of ingredients, but tastes like something even greater than the sum of its parts? This tomato pasta was one of those dishes for me. This recipe celebrates [...]

Occupation: Calzone-maker/freelance journalist/erstwhile biologist What did you eat today? Some boring stuff like cereal but also a calzone for lunch and some beef tongue tacos at Tres Carnales for supper. What do you never eat? Cookies made from dough in a tube. Very nasty. What is your personal specialty? Brownies. They’re my mom’s original recipe. [...]

One of my coworkers was absolutely raving about the cookbook Vij’s At Home, authored by Vikram Vij and Meeru Dhalwala, proprietors of the wildly successful Indian eatery Vij’s in Vancouver. She gave it perhaps the ultimate compliment: “If I could only choose one cookbook to use for the rest of my life, it would be [...]

I’m not sure what it’s been, but if you don’t count experiments with our new barbecue, we haven’t really been trying out as many new recipes as of late. I think part of it has to do with summer – we’re doing our best to take in as many festivals as we can so we’ve [...]

I’ve written many times about our love for poutine – what’s not to love about fries topped with cheese curds and gravy? This love pushed me to create some variations on poutine – based on dishes that we’ve enjoyed while dining out. Asparagus Bacon Breakfast Poutine Wake Bistro’s breakfast poutine was an excellent way of [...]

Occupation:  Speech-Language Pathologist What did you eat today? Breakfast: special K vanilla almond cereal with milk Lunch: cucumber slices, sugar peas, strawberries & blueberries.  A sandwich with cream cheese, sundried tomato pesto, green olive with pimento, leftover rotisserie chicken and mixed greens on sourdough.  Dinner: spinach-strawberry salad, slow-cooked smoked ribs with roasted potatoes and grilled [...]

I had mentally bookmarked two of the recipes seen on Dinner with Julie for future reference. It was a bit of a coincidence that I ended up making both of them in the same week. Though Julie does feature some dishes that are a bit more complex, I find that a majority of them are [...]

I really like the current trend of “meatless Mondays” – though Mack and I don’t subscribe to a specific day of the week substitution of meat, I think the campaign does help raise awareness of the health and planetary benefits of reducing our collective meat intake. Of course, our current cooking rotation does include a [...]