When I was growing up, I thought in very simple terms: salads consisted of lettuce, pasta, or (super ick!) Jell-O. On any given night in my childhood, my mum would always have a salad to accompany supper which was composed of iceberg lettuce, sliced beefsteak tomato, and cucumbers (it also wasn’t a salad if it wasn’t topped with Kraft Zesty Italian salad dressing, it was the 1980s after all). One of the most important things about humans is our Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Linger”
Cooking can represent some of the happiest moments in your life. (8)
A few months ago, when we were visiting my folks, my mum got us tickets for a cookbook signing. As we lined up at the bookstore with the hundreds of other people waiting to have their moment with the author, my dad – neither a home cook nor cookbook aficionado – remarked at “all of the cookbooks” he noticed displayed on a nearby shelf Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Simply Jamie (w/ Bonus Mini Review: 5 Ingredients Mediterranean)”
Happy 2025! In starting the new year, I can’t help but look back on the old one and feel that it was personally both long and forgettable. Favourite activities like reviewing or baking slipped away and, by the time what I affectionately think of as “Cookie Season” came around, I had lost the gumption to even think about, let alone bake any cookie boxes. Talking it over with a friend, she encouraged me to, at the very least, bake something for myself. I had promised my daughter that we would be baking together, and what my friend suggested ended up giving me a different perspective on Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Small Batch Cookies”
Utterly enticed is how I felt as I opened the cover of Özlem Warren’s latest cookbook Sebze: Vegetarian Recipes from My Turkish Table. As a vegetarian cooking for a family of vegetarians I am always looking for delicious, nourishing recipes for my family to enjoy and, flipping through Sebze (which means Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Sebze”
Much of what drives me forward as a cook is the desire to preserve those warm feelings of family and home that I experienced as a child, eating meals so lovingly made by my family. Food connects us to each other and to all the home cooks that came before – and, what I’ve found reading through Sophie Kaftal and Bobby Zielinski’s Kitten and the Bear Cookbook is that they’re not only preserving the sweet and most delicious offerings from gardens and orchards, they’re maintaining and building a “…fairy tale life full of beauty, tradition, and the art of daily ritual.”(2) For those who have Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Kitten and the Bear Cookbook”
Cooking and eating should be fun and food taste great to you, most importantly. (6)
I continue to be very curious about other vegetarians and how they approach their daily meals. When looking at cookbooks, I want to know how they stock their kitchens: which ingredients are the stars that get the most use? As I read the introduction to Joe Woodhouse’s latest cookbook, More Daily Veg, I love when he mentions cooking Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: More Daily Veg”
When a copy of Jean Parker and Rachel Smith’s cookbook, Baking Wonderland, arrived at our doorstep, my daughter was overjoyed because this baking book is geared towards kids, and she knew she would be the one trying out recipes. Looking at the cover of the book, we were immediately enticed through Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Baking Wonderland”
The parents of my daughter’s classmates know that one of my favourite things to ask when we’re standing around at after school pick up is: What’s for dinner? I’ve always been deeply curious to know what the go-to meals are, which are the favourites, or what are the dishes families fall back on when moments are busy (it feels like we’ve hit that age where the time after school is populated by myriad activities). As Jillian Harris and Tori Wesszer know, a good recipe gives us not only a delicious meal to share but it can also Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Fraiche Food, Fuller Hearts”
I have an incredibly soft spot for Mimi Thorisson because when I began to write in earnest about food over 7 years ago, I started out on Tumblr by trying recipes and writing short notes on the results. In one note, I wrote about baking canelés using Thorisson’s recipe and a carefully sourced canelé pan. I was so proud of myself! I baked outside my comfort zone and made something delicious. Thorisson’s blog, Manger, was a favourite because Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Old World Italian”
Walking by the kitchen one day my husband offhandedly indicates to a cookbook sitting on the counter and says, “That place has good chocolate chip cookies.” Being a chocolate fiend and a cookie connoisseur, of course this is the detail Continue reading “Book Club Friday Fun Edition: Mandy’s Gourmet Salads”
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