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Not having grown up in North America, I hadn’t heard of Julia Child until a few years ago and hadn’t actually watched any clips of her show until last night (!). But I’m catching up. I’m now in the middle of reading her memoir of her years in France during the 1950s, when she finally [...]  Feijoada Wash a cup on dry black beans and soak it overnight. Either on the day of, or the day before, cook the black beans by adding it (with the water it soaked in) to a large saucepot and bringing it to a simmer with two bay leaves. Simmer it for an hour or one [...] For a week that I felt singularly uninspired and did not make it to the Wednesday farmers’ market, it proved a good week food-wise. I made my first black bean burger based on this recipe sent by a friend of mine. I changed it slightly by substituting the 4 scallions for one small onion, doubling [...] I’ve recently bought my first cast iron skillet and since then I have heard and read much about how it is the ideal cookware to use for making cornbread. This recipe for a cornbread that serves as a main course appealed to me for its simplicity. I’ve adapted it somewhat by adding spinach to the [...] It all started with a bunch of spinach from the farmers’ market, a red pepper, a recipe from Mark Bittman, and this picture on flickr. I wanted to cook the spinach and browsing Bittman’s book, I came across his recipe for spinach with currants & nuts. I remember seeing spinach cooked this way when I [...] It was 7:15 AM and I had been up for nearly two hours. Lecture finished, I need some breakfast. One last egg left in the fridge, I was determined to try frying an egg for the first time on my new cast iron skillet but alas, there was nothing to eat the egg with. No [...] This is a simple and quick way of eating pasta in the summer. The sauce is uncooked – so more like making a pasta salad – but mixing it with the hot pasta makes for a nice, balanced dish. I had made salsa cruda with orecchieti before but this time I had some fresh whole [...] |
 Hi, I'm Alexandra. Born in Brazil, Canadian by choice, and having lived in exciting Barcelona for a year between 2006 and 2007, my earliest childhood memories revolve around food and food is what I remember most about every place I’ve ever lived. After writing a more general blog for the past few years, it was time to organize my writing about food in one place. © All pictures on this blog are taken by me unless otherwise noted. About the title of this blog |
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