Two things, my friends. That is, two recipes that I’ve recently enjoyed both for their flavours and for their contribution to emptying my pantry. (We move three weeks from today, by the way. We were hoping to move earlier but our contractors are significantly behind. Our living room is still mostly a gutted pit. So…
Tag: favourite recipes
Pesto season–it’s the most wonderful time of the year
Do you love basil? I’m sure you do, but do you love it the way I love it, i.e., do you think it’s the most delicious smelling food both in this universe and all other possible universes? If I had gotten married in summer, I would have had a gigantic bouquet made of freshly cut…
Salad and cold tea will see me through these desperate times
Well, the hellish hot heat has returned with a slavering, evil-eyed vengeance and that means two very important things: 1) salad, and 2) cold drinks. (It means much more than this, of course, such as: I hate summer. I am confronted again with the climatological conundrum of winter vs. summer, i.e., you can keep putting…
This is going to be the smash hit of the summer 2012 picnic/potluck season
I won’t say there’s an upside to the hellish hot heat that recently made its presence felt here in Toronto, but there is some recompense: summer is also picnic and potluck season. ‘Tis the season for bocci ball, barbeques, and eating too much; for laying about on blankets, again eating too much, and shooting the…
Overnight steel cut oats
Good morning/afternoon, friends! As promised, a recipe. A recipe of perfect breakfasty proportion and satisfaction: overnight steel cut oats with almond butter and maple syrup. My husband and I enjoy this one at least a few times a week; it really powers our cycling and reading marathons (performed entirely distinctly from one another, of course.)…
Jam and Idleness 