recipes

October 29 2011

Lentil Curry

Spoonful of curry over our notes from Udaipur For Diwali, I decided to put the spices I picked up at the Bastille market to good use. I bought six different types of spices, plus dried lentils and chickpeas, on the weekend. The man scooping up the spices for me was hilarious in a please-let-me-just-buy-what-I-want sort [...]

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August 11 2011

Peach Raspberry Pie

When you have a flat of peaches on your kitchen counter, ripening by the second, there’s a lot of pressure to come up with recipes to let the little fuzzy things serve their purpose in life. Then I saw this picture of a stone fruit lattice pie, and knew immediately it was going to be [...]

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August 10 2011

Summer Coffee Cake

(Or tea cake, since Alex devoured two slices half a cake with a cup of tea.) I love strawberry season in Canada. Strawberries were the only fruit that I missed terribly when we were traveling, despite the abundance of tropical delicacies in Taiwan and Thailand. Even though you could get imported grapes from Chile, cherries [...]

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For the past couple of years, I’ve had great success with making fruit jams. The first year I struck gold with a delicious peach jam, and last year I swooned many with the strawberry vanilla jam from well fed, flat broke. Aside from a class on jamming in high school, I was pretty much a [...]

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Check out one of my favourite food destinations online, well fed, flat broke, for my guest post today! The post features a couple of recipes from our cooking class in Udaipur. While you’re at it, give Emily a follow and send along well wishes on the Space Dinosaur!

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