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In preparation for the week, I decided to cook legumes yesterday (sunday) and boy, did it ever pay off. I got a bag of dry beans from my CSA this past week that included various kinds of beans and I had some chickpeas sitting around that I had been meaning to cook for a while. [...]  For this week’s meatless monday, I made a quick weeknight pasta dish. I had a box of brown rice rottini lying about. Alas, there’s no tomato sauce. But who needs tomato sauce with some nice Tuscan kale and some mushrooms lying around? So I sliced the mushrooms, cooked in olive oil. When they were almost [...] Nothing like a scrumptious breakfast to start off another week of work. Fried polenta topped with kale (both were leftovers from a weekend meal) and a fried egg. To add some colour and a nice flavour, some Brazilian pimenta de bico, a very sweet chili variety. Alan is away today at a retirement party in Montreal and while walking home in the cold I kept thinking of one of my favourite dishes growing up – feijão com angu e couve. Literally, black beans with polenta (brazilian style) and collards. Alan is not the biggest fan of either polenta or black beans [...] It is no secret on this blog that I love my cast iron skillet and inventing different cornbread recipes. So here’s today’s version: Kale and Sundried Tomatoes Cornbread. Recipe below the fold Ingredients 2/3 of package of Orzo 2 shallots, sliced 4 garlic cloves, chopped 1 tsp oregano 1 bunch kale (I used red kale), washed and chopped handful or more of dried mushrooms, reconstituted and chopped 4-5 sundried tomatoes, reconstituted and chopped. Reserve the tomato water. 2 tbsp capers, rinsed and drained 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, [...] Wikipedia defines comfort food as “familiar, simple foods that are usually home-cooked or eaten at informal restaurants.” What constitutes familiar, simple foods that elicit a certain emotional response from those who eat them of course changes from culture to culture. Whenever he is feeling under the weather, Alan likes having toast and tea because that’s [...] I wanted something light, yet seasonal. I had some kale in the fridge and a delicata squash sitting on my counter for the past 10 days. Browsing my new favourite book, I came across a recipe for pan-roasted millet with pumpkin seeds. Browsing one of my favourite magazines, I came across this recipe for delicata [...] I had some curly kale sitting on the back of the fridge and looked around in my cupboards for some interesting way to make it. Black lentils seemed promising. Small like Puys lentils, it promised a nice colour combination. |
 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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