Every year once the tulips start blooming, we sit and watch our rhubarb plants grow. It seems like they grow overnight because before we know it, they are huge. Once the lilacs start blooming, we know it won’t be long until we can harvest the first stalks. Now that I’ve finally come to enjoy rhubarb […]
Food
Plate to Plate: Chocolate Babka
The fourth Plate to Plate challenge features another Yotam Ottolenghi recipe, this time from his “Jerusalem” cookbook. When Jillian suggested a chocolate babka, I was all in. I love a good yeasted sweet bread, one of my favorites being a “nut braid”. My mother has already made this chocolate babka many times and every time […]
Trout with Beans and Radicchio
Recently, I was talking to a colleague while nibbling on a twisted puff pastry appetizer which was flaky on the outside and still deliciously warm and soft in the middle. We got to talking about food and it turns out, he really enjoys cooking. Farther down the conversation, we both decide it’s a pain to […]
Plate to Plate: Lentil and Radicchio Salad
Our third Plate to Plate challenge is a delicious salad out of Yotam Ottolenghi’s newest cookbook “Plenty More”. Finding a recipe both of us can make on our hemispheres is part of the plate to plate challenge. Luckily, Jillian is able to get most produce throughout the year. We were both gifted Ottolenghi‘s cookbook “Plenty […]
Bulger Salad with Peas
Salads are often pushed into the background, to be enjoyed as a side dish or first course. But salads can be meals in their own right and a lot of the lunches I make to take with me to work are salads. These salads have to be nourishing enough to get me through the rest […]
The Mighty Kale
I started eating kale long before the hype began and for the past few years I’ve been growing it in my garden. When I read an article in the paper several days ago, I thought it may be time to blog about it. Everyone is talking about kale and how wonderful it is. Well, almost […]