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Easy Chicken Noodle Soup
Depression is a sour and familiar thing. I have been on steady decline this past winter, practically running straight down a mountainside before I finally broke down a few weeks ago. Depression is, as I said, familiar to me. I have spent my whole life oscillating back and forth between the two extremes and every emotion between…
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Another Rainbow Salad
After a day of way too much strawberry ice cream I needed a meal that was ridiculously, obviously healthy; there is no way this salad could be misconstrued as anything but colourfully nutritious. I have cucumber, radishes, strawberries, yellow sweet peppers, grated carrot, avocado, romaine lettuce, edamame, parsley, pepitas, chia seeds, and black sesame seeds. I…
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Little Tomato Salads
Little tomato salads! Tomato salads are my favourite salads and I frequently tack one on to my meal to add colour and freshness. I made this little salad out of cherry tomatoes, fresh thyme, juice of half a lemon, olive oil, and salt and pepper and ate it with fried eggs, bacon, and a Siegel’s…
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Pineapple and Blueberry Smoothie
I woke up this morning to the smell of fresh spring air; wet and heavy with the omnipresent perfume of the cherry trees and damp earth. I wanted something for breakfast that would reflect the abundance of colour outside of my apartment right now, the ground is just bursting with Technicolour blooms right now. All of…
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This is How to Make a Cozy Dinner: Roast Chicken with Potatoes, Shallots, and Asparagus
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Parboil small red potatoes in water or chicken broth for 10 minutes. Set a rack in the roasting pan and line with parboiled potatoes and 6 whole shallots (tips cut off). Make slits in the skin of a roasting chicken, rub slivers of salted butter under the skin. Cut a…