March 2026

If had known years ago that making your own churned butter was so easy, I would never have bought butter in a grocery store again. On a recent trip to Ireland we encountered a number of restaurants that proudly offered “churned” or “artisan” butter as part of their menu offerings. Needless to say, the stuff…

The recipe is more in line with some of the chimichurri dishes we’ve experienced in Mexico and would not be considered “traditional” in any way. This version includes cilantro and uses a lime base – along with the dominant parsley and garlic flavours – which we find heightens the overall flavour profile of the sauce.

Once you get over the seemingly strange name of this dish you’ll realize that it’s absolutely delicious. Larb, meaning “meat salad”, was once the unofficial national dish of Laos that eventually found it’s way to Thailand. I’ve substituted the traditional toasted rice that is normally part of this recipe in favour of using toasted sesame…

I don’t know why, but for me pierogi have always seemed like some kind of delicacy. As a kid I remember how special it seemed to feel to have pierogi for dinner – frozen, never fresh, of course. Maybe it was the cool bag they came in or the fact that we got to have…

I always like to use leftovers from a big meal to make soup. One of my absolute favourite things to do is make turkey and rice soup the day after Christmas or Thanksgiving, or pea soup with ham after Easter. I find it to be so incredibly nourishing and healthy, and is a perfect way…

We have a legendary egg roll place here in Ottawa called Golden Palace. It has been around for decades and their homemade egg rolls are so delicious that we eat them by the handful! This Deconstructed Egg Roll recipe is a tribute to those famous bites of savory goodness – just presented differently. The result…