Winter doesn’t seem to want to cut us a break, and when it’s really cold outside, my body naturally craves carbs. Something I can eat a whole bowl of, and feel better for doing so. My inner child leans strongly towards mac and cheese (in any incarnation), and today was no different. With my daughter […]
Roast Chicken (Notes for my daughter)
Hardly a week goes by without me roasting a chicken in the oven. For me, roast chicken is the ultimate comfort meal. One bite takes me back to the immediately soothing and familiar taste of my mom’s roast chicken, and provides me with a lifetime of memories at the tip of my fork. There is […]
Nobu’s Teriyaki Chicken
You would think that someone who has over 500 cookbooks could come up with at least a dozen recipes for boneless, skinless chicken thighs at the snap of a finger, but today, I drew a complete blank. What to do, what to do, with these little pink mounds of flesh staring blankly back at me […]
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich
“This is trashy Midwestern eating at its finest. You could be on a back road goin’ nowhere, comin’ from nowhere, and haven’t even been anywhere, when all of a sudden you would come upon a roadside dive selling this tenderloin sandwich that was so big and so divine, you’d give up your virginity and your […]
Pizza Parlour Pasta Casserole
Sometimes combining different recipe ideas into one dish works, and sometimes it doesn’t. In this case, I was really pleased when I combined the flavours of pizza with my one of my favourite carb fests, the baked pasta casserole. Not stemming from any recipe book, this recipe evolved over time. It goes something like […]