Even before the pandemic happened and all the restaurants were forced to close and life ceased to be as it was, I had cooked and baked almost everything we ate. Besides the meals themselves, I made lots of kitchen staples: loaves of flax-laden sourdough, almond walnut granola, jars of spicy salsa and sweet marmalade…delicious things …
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grapefruit season of life.
We didn’t grow up eating grapefruit. In terms of citrus, my family ate oranges, with maybe some mandarins here and there on special occasions. In fact, I don’t think I tasted grapefruit until I was an adult living on my own, and its sharp bitter sourness was initially so shocking that I couldn’t understand how …
retreat-worthy: beet and black rice salad.
The key to successfully cooking for other people while they are on a meditation retreat is to think thoughts of love and compassion, so as to channel those same qualities into the food you make, hence providing nourishment that dares to delve into a world beyond physical. With this intention in mind, I like to …
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gomae!
Gomae! My new war cry! But also the Japanese word for a side dish of vegetables and sesame dressing. Gomaaaaeeee!!! I first ate gomae during a lovely party held at a Japanese restaurant a few weeks ago. It was a terrific and well-timed discovery, as I had just bought a gigantic, 1 kg bag of …
turn up the beet.
Just beet it.
“Everything was amazing.”
Said the Muffin Man, when I asked him what his favorite dish was from the night’s dinner. Well! We had a couple of friends over for dinner on a Saturday night, and I had greatly looked forward to an evening filled with good company and of course, good food. As you may or may not …
Think pink!
Ah, pink. The colour of Barbie, Pepto-Bismol, and ambiguously gay men. The sibling of red, the half-cousin of purple. There’s something about pink that makes me shudder with disgust and yet gives me a sense of perpetual cheeriness. Luckily, the thought of pink food tends to give me the giggles. A few weeks ago as …