Kitchen Operas

This weekend, Ashley and I skipped our collaborative hummus-making date for a hummus-related field trip: the Toronto Garlic Festival! Because really, what’s hummus without garlic?

We interrupt this regularly scheduled tour of South India to bring you a recipe.  It’s not Indian breakfast, but it’s supremely tasty.  Also, my twitter peeps were asking for the recipe, so I had to hook you all up.  More on Indian travel, food & recipes coming soon! Happy long weekend, happy Easter, happy Sunday!  […]

Growing up, my Mum and I used to make muffins together. As the stories go, when I was really little (around 2 years old), she didn’t know what to do with me to keep me occupied all day. So we made muffins. I was small enough to sit under the counter without my head touching […]

I have a new favourite breakfast: baked apples topped with oats, nuts, and coconut. A wonderful thing about this breakfast is that you can make it for dessert the night before, and make leftovers-on-purpose for breakfast the next day.  Then you have slow-cooked, aromatic baked apples for breakfast with no time spent in the kitchen […]

DID YOU KNOW? You can make ravioli out of wonton wrappers! And they are especially delicious when you stuff them with sauteed mushrooms, and top them off with a cherry tomato and garlic scape pesto sauce, lemon sheep’s milk cream cheese (Blossom from Monforte Dairy), and crushed walnuts with a little drizzle of my new […]

Seriously?  Go make this now. Crispy squares of puffed Kamut, dark chocolate, coconut, cocoa nibs, and a little bit of vanilla and cinnamon.  How could you not call this perfection? I was inspired by Meghan’s Crispy Rice Squares — ever since I saw this recipe on her blog, I was dying to make them!  But […]