I’m pretty sure one of my first experiences with tofu, if not my first, was through trying it at Chipotle via their sofritas, and amidst the limey rice, the perfectly cooked beans and the spicy salsa I thought this was as good as tofu could get. The sofritas bowl became…
One thing about me is I love a good, quick, easy freezer meal. The microwaveable little trays of mushy pasta you get in the freezer aisle of the grocery store have been my saving grace many a time when I found myself starved and with not even enough energy to…
You’ll almost always find some form of puff pastry in my freezer, whether it’s uncooked sheets waiting to be used, pre-baked parcels with some kind of meat or cheese and onion filling, or a sweet cheese and jam filled danish. It’s such a versatile, fairly easy to work with dough…
If there was one appetizer I had to limit myself to for the rest of my life, I would pick these flat, Pakistani-style potato (aloo) pakoras, coated in a besan (chickpea) flour batter and seasoned with cumin, chilli, and other traditional asian flavours. Not only are they incredibly easy to…
I’m a big snacker. Sweet, savory, salty, sour – whatever the flavour profile you can be sure I’ve had a craving for it at some point. I live for that time between lunch and dinner where I start to get that familiar gnawing at my stomach but it’s not quite…
When I bought my first cast-iron pan, I was equal parts terrified and excited. I had heard so much about this magical pan – non stick, stovetop and oven compatible, leeches iron into your food. Basically every anemic aspiring chef’s (a.k.a me) dream. So imagine my surprise when I painstakingly…
If you had asked me 5 years ago if I wanted a tuna salad sandwich, I would have turned my nose up in disgust. Up until that point, my only experience with canned tuna had been cold sandwiches picked up from the supermarket as a part of a “meal deal”…
