Oats Upma
I have been told to eat more oats, and am getting a bit tired of having them for breakfast without being able to add brown sugar and milk...
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Jan 25, 2021
Bastardized Easy Chicken Curry with Zoodles
This is perfect for a family meal where you want to look as though you have lovingly cooked, but actually have no interest in cooking at...
Jan 21, 2021
Baked Mackerel with Celeriac, Watermelon Radish and Gala Apple Slaw
I love mackerel, and tend to enjoy it most when slathered with miso and char-grilled, or BBB-ed and served with soy sauce and grated...
Jan 19, 2021
Multi-Veggie Tomato Sauce
This Tomato Sauce recipe remains my favorite, but I upgraded it a bit because I am trying to add more fiber to my diet. I made the recipe...
Jan 18, 2021
Warm Kaniwa Salad with Herbs and Sour Cherries
It is always exciting to find a new ingredient and I quite enjoyed this salad, made with kaniwa, quinoa's kissing cousin. Kaniwa is...
Dec 16, 2020
Spiced Osso Bucco and Root Vegetables in Red Wine
I made this for dinner for my mother and it was a thousand times more delicious than it looks in the picture. This is a really easy...
Nov 23, 2020
BBQ Portobello-Pancetta Burgers
L. and I were split on this one. We both felt that it was delicious, but L. felt that adding an actual burger to the dish would have...
Nov 16, 2020
Daube D'Agneau
L. has not been a huge fan of lamb since the mutton lunches of his French Lycée days but he quite enjoyed this as well which I think...
Nov 13, 2020
Crispy Shelled Tacos with Baked Lentils and Balsamic Cabbage
These shouldn't have worked but they did; they were fabulous! I added the Pancetta so as not to have to hear L.'s complaints about a lack...
Nov 9, 2020
Meatloaf
I was not a huge fan of meatloaf growing up. My mom didn't make it and, the rare times that I ate it at a friend's house it always tasted...
Oct 17, 2020
"Bastard" Curry
Illegitimacy is definitely an outdated construct, useful only in older novels and movies to create context for experiences in the...
Oct 4, 2020
Roast Chicken with Roasted Vegetables, Pan Juices (and Bread Stuffing which I made but did not eat)
This is the most forgiving of dinners, perfect for Sunday evening. Rather than time the vegetable cooking time individually as one...
Sep 19, 2020
Bonus Recipe: Buttery Salmon with CSA Box Vegetables in a Spicy Tomato-Coconut Milk Sauce
Much easier to make than the mouthful of a title might lead you to believe. I got the spice level perfectly calibrated for my taste and I...
Aug 21, 2020
Chinese Red Cabbage and Carrot Salad
This could also be called Asian fridge clear out coleslaw. I used much more red cabbage and grated carrot in the recipe than the photo...
Aug 16, 2020
Roasted Vegetable Ratatouille
Let's be honest, ratatouille is delicious but a real pain to make, right? All that fuss about cooking the vegetables separately and then...
May 17, 2020
Bonus Recipe: Barcelona Gazpacho
I have been on a chilled soup for lunch kick recently. They are easy to make, are healthy for the most part, and I happen to quite like...
Apr 22, 2020
Miso-Mayo
This is one of the world's most simplistic dipping sauces, which I make every spring to serve with steamed asparagus - both hot and cold....
Feb 19, 2020
Bonus Recipe: Miso Roast Vegetables
I had thought that L.'s dad was staying until Thursday morning and had not made plans for Wednesday dinner. I was therefore a little...
Dec 16, 2019
Chopped Sirloin and Vegetable Stuffed Cabbage Bundles with Beef Tea
Even as a child I was an anglophile and enjoyed the kind of fiction where children who were ill were sent to bed with barley water or...
Dec 16, 2019
Yakisoba 🔁 ⏰
Last week one of my friends mentioned that he had made yakisoba for his kids and I immediately started to crave it. I have made it in the...
Dec 12, 2019
Microwave Cod in Parchment with Dashi and Buttered Fall Vegetables
Despite a bit of butter, this recipe of mine is what Nigella Lawson refers to as "Temple Food" - soothing, healthy, easy on the digestive...
Dec 3, 2019
Mushroom Ravioli and Seasonal Vegetables in a Dried Porcini - Dashi Broth
There are always a few recipes over the course of the week which - sad though it may be - I use as a means of editing the hydrator. This...
Nov 8, 2019
Garbure
This dish is an excellent gateway meal to soup and stew season and I got lucky - it is unseasonably chilly tonight and this hearty stew...
Sep 24, 2019
Peanut Dip with Crudités
I can take no credit for this dip at all. This recipe is my mother's, which she tweaked from a recipe given to her by a friend back in...
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