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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 [...]  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 [...] This is another good recipe in which to hide some zucchini. I came back from the market today with a craving for pasta and dying to try out Angela Russo‘s tomato sauce. I had half of a huge zucchini sitting in the fridge, and the bounty from today’s market. I started out by slicing an [...] 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 [...] The picture of this delectable summery pasta dish was on a special edition of Fine Cooking magazine and made it impossible for me to walk by and not get the magazine. The recipe is by Ellie Krieger, and you can find it on the Food Network site or penne. Since I had a bit of [...] |
 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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