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At the end of January I decided to go dairy-free for a while and see what happened. I wrote about it here. It’s not the first time I’ve experimented with that. I spent a few months when I lived in Barcelona avoiding dairy, which meant passing on the cortados for a while. As in the [...]  I’m behind on a lecture I’m preparing for wednesday so couldn’t really innovate much today. I used lots of leftovers and kept it simple. On saturday I had made some black beans with a lot of sauce, polenta and kale (braised with shallots and garlic). For breakfast today I fried a few polenta slices, topped [...] The day started with a bowl of steel-cut oats cooked with turmeric, scallions, and sun-dried tomatoes and served with tamari sauce, sesame seeds, and a sprinkle of dulse. Lunch was a simple affair of leftovers from last night’s dinner: red lentil dal and quinoa cooked with mushrooms and kale. For dinner, I had a few [...] I’ve thought for a while on whether I would blog about meatless mondays. It’s a great initiative to get people more conscious of the amount of meat they eat and how to have great-tasting meals without any meat whatsoever. I haven’t really followed meatless mondays since I’m at the point where I have whole meatless [...] I have a confession to make. I haven’t shopped at a supermarket in over a year. Probably closer to two years. People usually give me quizzical looks when I say that. I can see it in their eyes that they cannot imagine where else would I buy food. We seem to have forgotten where food [...] A couple of months ago, inspired by Mark Bittman’s latest book and his column, I decided to experiment with savoury breakfasts. I’ve always preferred to eat savoury food in the morning anyway since I was raised bread & butter rather than bread & jam. One of Bittman’s favourites is steel cut oats dressed with whatever [...] 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 [...] I’ve been thinking a lot about sustainable farming lately. In a recent discussion about Michael Pollan’s book, a friend of mine expressed his concern that Pollan’s ideas about sustainable and organic agriculture and his criticism of big agribusiness would result in higher food prices and therefore have devastating effects on the poor around the world. [...] I’m not one to buy too many cookbooks but I love cooking magazines. My favourite at the moment is Fine Cooking for the variety of recipes, the emphasis on seasonal ingredients, and its pedagogical flair. Many recipes are actually built around teaching a particular technique or the principles behind a traditional dish. The article on [...] |
 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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