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Ever since I’ve finished reading Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food [I'll talk more about the book later, it's a real gem.], I can’t help but think of ways to eat organic and local. I’ve been doing my best to eat organic food [...]

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One of the many things I love about Vancouver is the fresh seafood — especially salmon. Salmmmmmon. Give it to me raw, fried, baked, seared, rolled in sushi rice, smoked…I’ll take it!
Aside from baking salmon ’sandwiches’, I like making salmon in pockets. Why? It’s the simplest thing to prepare and [...]

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Portobello, portabella…to-MAY-toe, to-MAH-to. However spelled, I love them. And tuna, too. When I was in highschool, and a geek to the core, I obsessed about eating tuna because it was considered “brain food”. Aside from the ‘benefits’ of the fish, I can’t get enough of the flavor.In this quick dish, I combined my [...]

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I was inspired to make this from Patricia’s Spaghetti with Garlic and Spinach post. Queen of substitutions that I am, I loosely followed the recipe that she found on delicious. magazine [A very good magazine, by the way, but I digress.] and made my own version with pancetta and linguine. Here’s the visual [...]

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We’ve always made Spaghetti alla Carbonara the ‘with cream‘ way thinking that we were doing it right (i.e. the authentic way), but we were so wrong as you will see in the authentic recipe below. Well, it really doesn’t matter because whenever we cook Giada de Laurentiis’s Chicken Carbonara, it was well-received. [...]

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When we don’t have dinner leftovers, I usually resort to cooking pasta for lunch because it’s quick and easy to make, plus it’s filling. And well, I LOVE pasta. For these weekday lunches, I just use what’s available at home. Follow me through this simple logic: Yesterday, for example, I made cream sauce because we [...]

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