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Sweet Pepper Slaw with Fresh Herbs
I spent my Easter weekend with good friends, my second family in lots of ways. All of us are from Ontario and away from our immediate families for the holiday, so it’s always nice to get together for way too many cocktails and an impressive spread of food. This year we had some incredible bacon…
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Asian Inspired Bright Steak Salad
I like my steak really, really rare; not quite blue, but the closest shade possible (a particularly rosy shade of indigo?). Â I generally make steak about once a month, I can go weeks without red meat and then suddenly I need the rarest, bloodiest, still perfectly pink red inside and seared on the outside steak…
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Roasted Radishes and Bacon Topped with Skyr and Scallions
These roasted radishes with bacon taste like pirogies and the skyr is a slightly more sophisticated take on the traditional sour cream (but by no means a superior take, sour cream is equally delicious). Skyr is an Icelandic dairy product, similar to a very thick yogurt but milder and sweeter tasting than Greek yogurt. I’ve…
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Chinese Cabbage Salad with Chickpeas, Oranges, and a Citrus Tahini Dressing
I love the combination of oranges and cabbage or other robust greens, my grandma always added orange segments to coleslaw and my mom followed suit, The sweetness and the crunch, the saltiness and the astringency of the citrus dressing all come together to form one of the most perfect salad combinations ever. Tahini is an…
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Egg Noodles in a Creamy Caramelized Onion Sauce
This recipe for egg noodles with a creamy caramelized onion sauce is essentially the same as someone wrapping you up in a cashmere blanket and giving you a warm hug. It’s so easy for lazy afternoons when you’ve fallen asleep on the couch in front of the fire, and when you wake up the sky…