Babaganoush

December 3 I keep buying eggplant and not knowing what to do with it. I feel like I use eggplant all of the time, but I don’t. In my mind it’s like mushrooms in the sense that it is super substantial and often used as a ‘meaty’ substitute in vegetarian cooking (why is that?) but […]

vegetarian french onion soup recipe

Vegetarian French Onion Soup

November 16 When I open the weather app on my phone, the description under the temperature reads “Frigid”. While I am grateful that the weather only turned cold mid-November this year, I find the word fairly depressing. It is such a harsh word, frigid, it makes me not want to leave the house just looking […]

fried okra recipe

Fried Okra with Remoulade

November 7 One of my favourite restaurants to go to when we lived in Vancouver was Chewies. What was strange was that I liked the food, but I wasn’t completely crazy about it. I just loved the ambience (and the oysters if it was a special occasion). The one thing I always made sure to […]

Hearty, Healthy Vegetable Soup

October 28 I find my cravings so predictably in tune with the change of seasons. The weather has started getting colder, mornings and evenings are darker, and there are only a few stubborn, golden leaves left on the trees. All I want to do is warm my hands and bathe my face in steam that’s […]