Winter

A fork-tender beef curry, featuring warm spices such as ginger and cinammon. Made with coconut milk and tomatoes, for a flavourful sauce. Served with rice. [...]

A traditional Hungarian paprika-spiced cauliflower soup (Karfiolleves), that is quick and easy, as well as tasty with just the right amount of heat to warm you up on a cold winter day. [...]

Back in the summer, I posted a Picnic Perfect Pressed Sandwich. It’s perfect for summer lunches. But it’s Winter now, and a different type of pressed sandwich is in order. Here’s my favourite – roasted vegetables, with a balsamic drizzle, goat cheese and arugula, pressed on a ciabata bun and lightly toasted in a panini [...]

A Bulgarian traditional bread, decorated with wheat, fruit and flowers to symbolize abundance, fertility and prosperity and served with on Christmas Eve. I'm not Bulgarian, but I adopted this tradition to share with my family this year. [...]

A delicious and easy apple and maple syrup cake that is baked upside-down. The maple syrup soaks into the cake and tastes just like a stack of warm apple pancakes! [...]

A quick and easy chicken and rice soup recipe, that can be made in 30 minutes in one pot. A hearty and healthy soup that is great for lunch or dinner. [...]

Sticky Toffee Pudding has always been one of my favourite desserts and especially once the weather gets cooler. For the uninitiated, it’s not a pudding in the “put it in a bowl and eat it with a spoon” way. It’s a pudding in the British style – a cake. Classic Sticky Toffee Pudding features dates, [...]

If you’re looking for a soup that you can get on the table fast, this is it! It is also a great and tasty way to up your vegetable count for the day. With just a couple of chicken breasts and some chicken stock, you can whip up this soup in about 30 minutes. Add [...]

I have only recently discovered Cara Cara oranges. They are in (Canadian) grocery stores right now (early February) but they are easy to miss with the wide variety of citrus on the shelves right now. If you seek them out though, you will be wonderfully rewarded. Cara Cara oranges are sweet, low in acid and [...]

It always amuses me to be able to enjoy local, Ontario carrots … in February, when most of Ontario is under feet of snow. And I suspect if I looked hard enough, I might even be able to find an Ontario pumpkin somewhere as well. (I didn’t look hard this time, so resorted to canned [...]