It sounds trite, but it’s true: sometimes the simplest things are the best. I’ve been putting a lot of effort into being creative in the kitchen lately, partly as a distraction from exam stress, and partly because I felt like I had fallen into a bit of a rut. Ruts are soul-killing. They can be [...]
After an unseasonably warm March and early April, the local weather gods of Montreal have woken up and decided to reassert their authority. There was snow on Mount Royal yesterday morning, and a tracing of ice on my balcony. It’s been blustering steadily for days, with on-again, off-again rain. But it is only now that [...]
I never thought I’d stumble across this particular problem, but I had. I was inundated with pineapple. When I was growing up, a pineapple could hardly get in the door before being devoured by the more pineapple-mad members of my family. We never did anything fancy with it—just cut it up and ate it, juice [...]
Have you ever had vanilla ice cream with walnuts and a drizzle of maple syrup? Precisely. Heaven. For whatever reason, I’ve been craving the combination for a few weeks. Daffodils are blooming, birds are singing, everyone’s outside, and my subconscious has decided it is summer. Now. With ice cream, thank you very much. My subconscious [...]
When I hear the word tortilla, I think about California. I think about watching the tortilla maker shape golden dough into paper-thin disks and baking them. I think about Diego Rivera, and burritos, and the way my sister always seems to make quesadillas when it’s her turn to cook dinner. I definitely don’t think about [...]
When life gives you lemons, they say, make lemonade. When life gives you a free carton of Greek yogurt, make salmon cakes with yogurt-dill sauce. I have much to learn when it comes to fish. We never ate it much at home when I was small: fish, along with Beef Wellington, asparagus, and other such [...]
One of my roommates recently observed that the cookie to paper ratio in our lives at the moment is definitely skewed in the wrong direction. She is sadly correct: the end of term draws nigh, and papers flutter about our heads like a flock of seagulls—numerous, noisy, and less than welcome. I can’t do much [...]
At first I thought it was a particularly cruel April Fools Day joke. But no, organic asparagus had indeed crept into my price range, and looked tasty to boot. I was on my regular weekend hunting expedition. In spite of a lovely Palm Sunday service, I was feeling a little down. It’s one of those [...]
