The Joy of Oatmeal, and Breakfast
I was sitting in my local ramen place, Shinobi noodles,
waiting for a bowl of tan tan men when I made a shocking
discovery: Jesse doesn’t eat breakfast.
Lemon Curd, Delicious and Vegan
Memorial day weekend in New York city: after an unseasonably
rainy month of May, summer heat has finally rolled in; it’s
sultry out. On the stoops of Bushwick, locals hide in spots
of shade, sipping iced drinks.
Everybody Loves Jalapeño & Pineapple Cornbread
It’s another Tuesday in our topsy turvy Brooklyn apartment
and Mike asks me to make cornbread — or I should say more
cornbread. Just the night before, we had polished off a
batch, companion to a pot of use-up-the
carrots-that-have-been-in-the-freezer-too-long lentil soup.
Thyme for Salad
There are some facts about salad that people rarely talk
about… like how you can arrange all the ingredients in
complex fractal patterns over their bed of greens.
Chocolate Chip Coconut Slices
Trout Lake is surrounded by a park called John Hendry,
although few people seem to call it that. John Hendry was
a lumber tycoon (which is a fittingly Canadian thing to
be) and had a sawmill there, until his daughter Aldyen
donated the land to the Park Board.
Let's Make Brownies
Join me on a January afternoon in Vancouver, British
Columbia, sidewalks turning slick with rain. Vancouver
doesn’t mess about ― none of those non-commital Irish days
here, teasing you with damp and drizzle.
Apricots in Winter Coats
My cat Rumptious tells me I should pay him more attention.
He pokes me in the ankle as I roll balls of apricot and
almond between my palms and dip them in vanilla bean
speckled white chocolate.
I Dream of Oranges and Avocados
Let’s talk about orange and avocado - two foods just
begging to be served together, and yet before I
accidentally created this dish from the dregs of my
larder, I never knew it. Orange’s sweet tanginess is the
perfect counterpoint for the creaminess of avocado.
Breaching the Finger Biscuit Fortress
This week I baked a cake, a terrible, wonderful cake - a
cake so deliciously decadent it re-aligned my concept of
decadence. I may forget everything else about this week,
in fact I think I already have - but this cake has left
its mark, and it’s in indelible chocolate.
Sarah Dreams of Truffles
Some part of me wants to throw away everything and make
truffles for a living. I’d experiment with strange flavour
pairings like cherry and bergamot, or coconut and cumin.