When I was a kid I loved the foods at big family gatherings — little pickles, cubed cheeses, cut fruit and veg, cold cuts, chips, crackers — lots of imagination and a little something for everyone. Sometimes I would stick with the stand-by favs or there were times when I would venture out of my comfort zone Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Platters and Boards”
I am not a baker. Thought I’d be honest and get it out there. Even though I do bake from time to time I definitely have a comfort-zone where baking is concerned. So when I received a copy of Hayley McKee’s Sticky Fingers Green Thumb cookbook I had all the feels — mainly a mixture Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Sticky Fingers Green Thumb”
Every so often I get a cookbook that really surprises me or one that I learn a great deal from. When Lagom: The Swedish Art of Eating Harmoniously by Steffi Knowles-Dellner (author behind the notable blog Always So Hungry) arrived in my mailbox I couldn’t tell you much about what I knew about Swedish cuisine (and if I am being honest here what I do know mainly comes from what I’ve picked up at the Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Lagom”
What is a “veggie burger” to you? To me it’s what I commonly choose when dining out because (sadly — unless I’m at EDNA) it’s what passes for the plant-based choice on most menus except for salad or some sort of pasta…well there’s pizza too but in all truth the veggie burger is the most ubiquitous Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Green Burgers”
Change is difficult. It really is! When I was in grade 7 my dad and I made a bet to give up sugar. I can’t even remember the time period we decided on because it seemed like an eternity to me. And just between us, I didn’t make it too long. Thinking back on the situation I remember how acutely I felt the loss of sugar. No gummies, chocolates, cookies, ice cream — no sweet treat of any kind. There is the power of big sugar at work — for some like myself (named the “treat monster” Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Bliss Bites”
To be able to cook is one of the truest simple pleasures in my life — one that I am extremely grateful for. If you know me in “real life” or on social media it’s obvious I cook with a great amount of zest and zeal. Any opportunity to try a new recipe or cookbook is one that I will always readily accept because the next family favourite might be right around the corner or even the chance to try a new ingredient (I used lemongrass for the first time here!) or technique is alluring. Maybe this Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Simply Vibrant”
It’s been awhile! Hope everyone had a good start to 2018! I’ve been on a huge break since my last review — I have spent the last couple of months free from my review regime. For those of you who are new to Shipshape Eatworthy what happens here is simple: I receive review copies of cookbooks and then I try at least 10 recipes per cookbook. I posted 27 times in 2017 and 24 of which were cookbook reviews so you do the math. So much cooking. So much. It’s fair to say Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Healthyish”
Deb Perelman has your back. She really does! Her newest book, Smitten Kitchen Every Day, is a true love letter to home cooking. Often times I get questions asking me where I find the time to cook. TBH I make the time because I truly love it. But I have a 3 year old daughter and I never thought trying to feed her would be such a roller coaster of emotions. When she first started eating she loved it! She would eat anything! Try anything and then something happened. She turned two and realized that she, was in fact, Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Smitten Kitchen Every Day”
Happy Friday everyone! Can anyone else believe it’s December already?! I feel like this whole year has gone by in the blink of an eye (maybe it seems this way to me because I have a young child and everyone says time passes by faster when you do). This has been one busy year Continue reading “The Eatworthy 2017 Gift Guide”
One of the cookbooks I have been quietly anticipating this year is the Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition of How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman because when I received the original edition ten years ago I wasn’t a vegetarian and it seemed to me that I could really trust an author who wasn’t peddling vegetarianism (Bittman wasn’t or isn’t a vegetarian but he has ideas on what our modern diet has done to the health of the average American — have a listen to his TED talk if you’re curious). Back then I couldn’t have imagined or was even near ready to accept a plant-based diet. Not even Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition How to Cook Everything Vegetarian”
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