The Kitchen Operas

Need a super-quick dinner?  Craving pizza?  Well, have I got you covered.  If you’ve got pita on hand, you’ve got dinner. And if you’re going gluten-free, you can use gluten-free pita and still have a super-quick pizza! You will of course need to eat these with Tanya’s Caesar Salad.  Yum.  Garlicky greens plus pizza.  What [...]

So earlier this week, I had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (just like Alexander).  I found out that I didn’t get into the school program I was hoping to start in September (boo!) so I needed consolation food.  And the answer?  Whole Wheat Crêpes with Collard Greens and Cheddar. You could even [...]

So I have to share another foodie find in San Francisco: Samovar Tea Lounge.  I discovered Samovar through two recommendations: Heidi’s San Francisco List at 101 Cookbooks, and a tweet my favourite local tea shop — David’s Tea.  And I am so glad I did! This was my amazing view for two of my lunches.  [...]

Hi! I just wanted to let you know I’m still alive and well… just in San Francisco for a few days eating lovely things like this: Which I will blog about shortly… promise. I hope you’re all having magnificent foodventures of your own, Lindsay

Dave and Linda from Monkeyshines in the Kitchen chose Soufflés as our November 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge! Dave and Linda provided two of their own delicious recipes plus a sinfully decadent chocolate soufflé recipe adapted from Gordon Ramsay’s recipe found at the BBC Good Food website. Oh, Daring Cooks challenge, you have inspired me again! [...]

I feel silly for posting a sandwich recipe… but really, this one is good enough to warrant it. We had a family BBQ, and we vegetarians in the family requested “lots of veggies on the grill… maybe portobello mushrooms, and some onions, and stuff?” and we were rewarded with portobello mushrooms and foil-wrapped onions!  Mmm.  [...]

My dear friend Liz is pregnant with her second child!!  This is fantastic news, except for the fact that I wish I could be closer to her to celebrate.  Liz lives in Pennsylvania, and with me up here in Toronto, it makes popping by for dinner & a chat quite tough. When Liz was pregnant [...]

One last recipe in the installment of Cottage Recipes: English Rarebit… or my take on it anyway. Over in the UK, you can find a cheesy snack on most pub menus: Welsh Rarebit (or Welsh Rabbit), toasted bread covered with a molten cheddar cheese/ale/mustard mixture.  A similar concept is English Rarebit, made with wine instead [...]

This salad is for my dearest sister, Heather, who you may remember from our Mocha Smoothies or our Hot Pink Salad with Meyer Lemon Dressing. We went out as a family (with the parents) to see the fantastic, tear-jerking musical, Miss Saigon, at the Four Seasons Centre (home of the Canadian Opera Company).  And of [...]

Thank you, Jamie Oliver. I usually don’t do this, but today I picked up the latest Jamie Oliver magazine, (Issue 10, June 2010), and while flipping through I stopped on the Vegetable Tartlets recipe, and declared we needed to have them for dinner. Usually, there’s an intricate process of sticky notes, adding to the To [...]