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. …
Readers, where you at? I know it’s been yet another extended absence on my part, but I hope you’re all well and eager to read my latest update. Exciting things, for sure, have been happening. The most exciting and important thing is that Liz got …
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 …
It’s springtime! Sometimes sunny, sometimes rainy, sometimes hot, sometimes cool. A season for change and rebirth. Spring is an exciting season for a cook, especially in colder climates like ours in Canada. After months and months of nothing but root vegetables, magical green things start …
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 …
Good morning, friends and neighbors! It’s a rainy, grey one here in Ottawa. We’ve had some beautiful, sunshiny days up until now, but into every life, a little rain must fall. I guess that’s today. We had a hard time getting out of bed what …
