I heart my veggies, but I also heart pasta. And cheese sauce. And cheese. And since I had zucchinis and eggplant in the fridge, four-layer veggie lasagna was born! This dish is a cheesy, saucy way to get your vegetables while still managing to eat pasta for dinner. Or lunch. Or both! There’s a bit…
Life of Pie, Part II: Cranberry Crackle Tart and Pectin-Free Jam!
Yesterday’s pie recipe was one that I’d be promising you all for a while, but here’s one that I’ve been promising myself for a while! As you know, I belong to an on-line bake-a-long group, baking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook, and we make a recipe every two weeks. However, early…
Life of Pie: Canadian Meat Galette, Gone Veg
A week or two ago, back when I made that Strawberry and Lime Cremeaux Pie, I also made a made a meat pie for the DH. I used my favourite vodka pie crust recipe, and mixed up whatever veggies we had in the fridge with a meat and gravy mixture I had leftover from my Meat…
Memories of Meals Past: Baba Ghanoush, an Anti-Inflammatory Diet, & Kitchen Innovations
If you’ve been following along on my blog, you’ll know that I have some Middle Eastern heritage, so I grew up eating things like hummus on a regular basis. (Of course, my mum being very much an international cook, I also grew up eating things like Thai Green Curry, Borscht, and Poffertjes on a regular basis. I have no…
Cook-A-Longs-R-Us: Caramel Corn-Topped Brown Sugar Bars
As my regular readers know, I’m part of a group baking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking Chez Moi. It’s all about Parisian French desserts, and can I just tell you? Yum! Some of the recipes are super-intricate, time-consuming, knock-your-ballerina-flats off, and others are surprisingly quick, like today’s recipe! This week’s recipe is Crispy-Topped Brown…