Thoughts and musings of a former chef navigating the post-kitchen world.
A good summer morning to each and every one of you! It’s been a hot few weeks here in the nation’s capital, lemme tell you. Amidst this heat comes some good news, though. Indoor dining is set to return next week! W00T! All my restauranteur …
Hey friends, welcome back! Glad to have you with me again. Apologies, blah blah blah, long absence, blah blah blah, life etc. Anyways, I hope all of you have been holding up well, getting vaccinated and are dealing okay with a scorcher of a summer. …
Happy weekend, dear readers. I got my first vaccine shot yesterday and I’m feeling pretty great about that. I hope that all of you are close to getting vaccinated, too. I’m feeling a bit out of sorts, though. A little achy and overtired, nothing to …
Just another manic Monday, friends. Welcome back, I hope you’re all well. I have some exciting news in my personal life: I’ll be getting my first vaccine dose this Friday! Whoo! Freedom! I can’t wait. I’ve been feeling some pretty extreme cabin fever lately. This …
Pork has always a mythical sort of meat to me. Growing up in a Jewish household, it was a long time before I knew the pleasures of bacon, pork sausages, and hams both cooked and cured. No pork chops or pork loin roasts for dinner. …
We’ve all got some stuff lurking in the back of our freezer that we constantly skip over or just plain forget about. Not today. Today, we dig through the freezer to find these lost artifacts. This day, we will cook from frozen. Today, we stay …
Chicken and rice. That’s all you need to hear. It even sounds comforting, doesn’t it? Nearly every culture I can think of boasts one or more dishes that combine chicken and rice, and for good reason. They go great together. You don’t even need to …
Welcome back, dear readers. Good tidings to you all. A fine spring day here in Ottawa, the snow is melting, the sub-zero temperatures are gradually warming up. And the hearts of restaurateurs are warming as well, due to the decision to allow 50% dining room …
Welcome back, readers and friends! Seems I took a bit of an 11-day absence there. Unintended, to be sure. Just working on a lot of projects these days. I’m back now, so let’s get to it. I’m sick of cooking! Sick of being stuck indoors! …
Happy Monday, and welcome back dear readers! Can you believe that we’re almost done the first month of 2021? We thought we’d never get here and yet, here we are. Here at our place, Liz and I find ourselves firmly entrenched inside against a snowy, …
