Poutine: Indian Style

September 5 A couple of weeks ago I helped my boyfriend make his lunch for the week. We made chicken, butter chicken sauce, Indian spiced mashed potatoes and swiss chard and radish salad. His lunches are pretty much always very meat-centric so I never taste them, let alone eat them myself. However, I couldn’t stop […]

Edible Garden

August 8 I bought a small terrarium last weekend. Basically it’s a small glass bowl that has a little garden inside of it. The first thing I said when I saw it was: how hard is it to kill this? (because if it is easy to kill, I inevitably will). The answer was that it […]

Vietnamese Spring Rolls

July 4 I love Vietnamese food. I had never really tasted it until we went to Vietnam a few years ago. I was stunned at how easy it was to eat as a vegetarian there and the food was always delicious and fresh. I always had banana pancakes for breakfast (which were nothing like pancakes […]

Onigri (rice balls)

June 7 As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we went to Japan for about 4 weeks three years ago. It certainly isn’t a cheap country to travel in, so for breakfasts, and sometimes even for a small lunch, we would often go to the 7/11. This isn’t as shameful as you may imagine. At lunch […]