Are you looking for a bechamel based lasagna? Look no further. Seriously, this recipe from smitten kitchen, which she adapted, only a little, from Ina Garten, is delicious. I’ve made this lasagna twice. The first time, I made it for a girlfriend and followed the recipe, almost exactly. The second time, I made it for
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A few weekends ago we were going to a couple of our friends’ birthday party (yes, the plurals and possessives are right) and I just didn’t feel like drinking wine. Ever since dry January I’ve really cut back on my drinking. I rarely drink on week nights, but even more surprisingly, I tend to restrain
I’m not sure where you are from, but here it Toronto, it doesn’t feel much like spring. In fact it still feels like winter. Biting winds, sleet, snow, and days where it is 0C (32F). A few weeks ago, however, we had a couple of nice days, so I decided to celebrate the spring and
If you follow my blog (and I hope you do!), you know I’ve been busy. Very busy. So busy that I’ve been the world’s worst blogger for the past couple of weeks :( I’m super sorry! Bear with me ok? It’s a combination of being at work until late, getting home, making dinner, and going
It’s Friday, Friday! Cue Rebecca Black: This Friday is extra good since it has been another one of those weeks. Hopefully, this weekend I’ll get a chance to get caught up on life (piles of laundry, unopened mail, and a dishwasher full of clean dishes that has been waiting to be emptied since Wednesday), and
Remember way back here when I introduced you to my soup cookbook? And do you remember how I told you that I’ve got some of my very favourite recipes from this $0.50 garage sale purchase? And do you remember how I told you that my first selection was “Spicy Pumpkin Soup”. And that Oh.My.God. It
Given some of the recipes I’ve posted to date (including this one and this one) it probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise to you that I’m not quite a vegan. Until fairly recently I sort of thought that vegans were malnourished hippies. In the past several years, however, I’ve started following a few
The hubs returned from SXSW on Wednesday with some sort of plague. He was so sick while there that he had spent an entire day in bed. This may not sound that appalling to some of you, but my husband is super immunity man.* In the time I’ve known my husband, he’s NEVER spent a
This is a tasty salad and chicken schnitzel combo I came across about a year ago on Epicurious. The original salad recipe calls for frisee and belgian endive. The first time I made it I substituted arugula for both because my grocery store doesn’t carry either frisee or beligian endive. Lame, I know. A few
A super quick post this morning to shout to to a seriously amazing vegetable tortellini soup I made last night. A few weeks ago I came across the recipe at Sing For Your Supper, and last night (with all the slushy, rainy, windy, horribleness we had going on here in Toronto) was the perfect night
One of my very favourite recipes in recent history is adapted from the Arugula Pesto Wheat Berries recipe on 101 Cookbooks. If you like to cook and you haven’t been to Heidi’s website, I suggest you check it out. Heidi started 101 Cookbooks in 2003(!!!) and it has been growing ever since. It is full
My sister in law Debbie is a fabulous cook; her salads are seriously amazing. She is also a wonderful person. Shortly after the hubs and I announced we were getting married, Debbie started on a project, which resulted in what was far and away our most thoughtful wedding present.* *Thoughtful wedding presents can be great…
I discovered Gabrielle of Honest Fare’s recipe for Beer Bread in a roundabout way through pinterest. (Yet another reason why I love pinterest). I’ve never made bread before, unless standing around while my best friend’s mom made bread with her bread maker counts… At the best of times, I’m not much of a baker so
In April 2006, before our round-the-world trip and while we were still living in Vancouver, the bf-cum-hubs and I came across the little soup cookbook at a garage sale. Despite it being a balmy spring day, I was in a soup kind of mood and – after a little bit of haggling – the lovely
It was about 2 hours before I planned to go to bed and I had a craving for freshly baked warm peanut butter cookies. Big time. It was a cold and dark night and we’d had a dinner that I had found less than satisfactory (more on that later). I had a case of the