Ceviche
This August my husband and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary. My parents gave us the best gift possible- they watched our children for an entire week and we went away on vacation just the two of for the first time in five years. …
Adventures of a Home Cook
Appetizer
Green Goddess Dressing
I am entirely over winter. I am done with snow, with coats, with multiple layers and endless cold. I am even done with comfort food. I want fresh, crisp greens. I want to cook with handfuls of herbs that come from my garden and not …
Ricotta Cheese
Remember those fun science experiments you used to do in chemistry class as a kid? My favourites always involved a Bunsen burner and flames that turned colours. Perhaps I am just a giant nerd (no need to comment here), but I always thought that chemistry …
Buffalo Chicken Wings
Superbowl weekend is upon us. The day where Americans consume mass quantities of chicken wings and drink too much beer in the name of football. It is a glorious day. However this almost national holiday has a bittersweet quality to it. While I already know …
Roasted Grape and Burrata Salad
For Christmas I received the best gift: Yotam Ottolenghi’s new cookbook Simple. For those of you not familiar with him, he is a chef, restaurateur and cookbook author, who brought us those wildly unpopular cookbooks Plenty and Jerusalem. I consider him to be the ultimate …
Roasted Shrimp Cocktail
Looking for an easy, make-ahead appetizer?! You can always count on Ina Garten to come through. This is essentially the home-made version of that shrimp appetizer you buy at the grocery store, where the shrimp comes in a ring surrounding a red dipping sauce. Except …
Spiced Nuts
I have a very strict “No Christmas” policy until Thanksgiving (American not Canadian- I obviously don’t pull out the candy canes in October). For some reason this self-imposed rule gets harder to stick to every year. It seems that trick-or-treaters are still at my door …
Quick Easy Homemade Salsa
I love entertaining. I love that my house is the center-point for many parties, backyard barbeques, holidays, and any time my family members want to “mooch a meal” as we affectionately refer to it. But while I love being the host, it is often difficult …
Mussels and Chorizo in a Tomato Wine Broth
I have always enjoyed fresh seafood. Really- what’s not to love. But I discovered a deep love for mussels on a trip to Nova Scotia several years ago. The east coast does seafood right! We attended a wedding on a beach, looking out over the …
Perfect Guacamole
In honour of Cinco de Mayo I thought I would tackle perfect, authentic guacamole. And while this might seem like an easy task, it is often with the simple recipes that so much can go wrong. Firstly- authentic guacamole only has 5 ingredients: Hass avocados …