I’m back! And I learned what anosmia is. Well, it’s been a while. In December of last year my full-time job was in full gear and life simply got in the way. January and February meant business travel in the Middle East, and by late February when I was flying home the whole office was…
Well, it’s been an interesting week here for the blog – after some mishap with AWS and server imaging and other technical concepts I previously was only somewhat aware of, the website is back up and now appears to be stable. Serious shout-out to the AWS employee in South Africa that spent hours working with…
A common refrain my husband hears from me, whatever the season and wherever in the world we are, is: ‘I need vegetables.’ Growing up, our table was never without at least one salad – and always multiple vegetable dishes. British and American cuisine share the same notion that a vegetable side dish is more of…
Thanksgiving is about the sides, right? While I fully believe in indulging from time to time, I also try to make sure that there’s healthier options on our Thanksgiving table, perhaps so I don’t feel so bad about getting seconds (or thirds?). I love cauliflower mashed ‘potatoes’, but then I love cauliflower in all its…
Cauliflower has replaced kale as the new ‘it’ vegetable, apparently. With the popularity of the keto diet this vegetable that was usually either steamed and unseasoned or covered in cheese sauce. My mother, on the other hand, has been roasting cauliflower since probably the 80s, and it has long been my favourite way to eat…
I am a chili head – I am known to put hot sauce on everything. Our dinner table is never without hot sauce, or some homemade chili sauce of some sort – regardless of the cuisine we’re eating. I see spiciness warnings on restaurant menus as a dare, and order my Thai food ‘Thai hot’…
I returned home from Japan inspired and ready to cook again – and then, well, I got really sick. My husband’s grandfather passed away and no sooner had we returned to Denver than he was on a flight for Honolulu to his memorial, and then the first big snowstorm of the year hit. I had…
Right now my family and I are traveling in Japan. Autumn is by far my favourite time here – while cherry blossom season is truly something wonderful as well, there’s something just as beautiful as the changing colours of the trees, and the crisp but not bitter cold air. Japan also has very seasonal food…
Last year I spent some time in Morocco and had the pleasure of sampling a variety of different Moroccan dishes. Since then, I’ve been trying to incorporate more Moroccan recipes into our lives, and autumn is usually a great time to pull out recipes for the various cooked vegetable dishes that are so common in…
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I could not get enough of citrus, sour, or pickled things. This is when I finally decided to make my own pickles – because the good ones are typically kind of expensive, and even if they’re not – there’s nothing quite like your own homemade ones. I can…
