One of my favourite things about travelling is getting to visit new restaurants, try new dishes, and getting to experience foods you might not otherwise get to. One of the dishes I remember most fondly from my travels was the carbonara at Buddy, a vegan cafe and restaurant in Rome. Of course, it’s no surprise…
Category: Lunch and Dinner
Sweet Potato Pasta Casserole
Sweet potatoes are a vegetable powerhouse. Besides being packed with various nutrients and anti-oxidants, their slightly sweet and spicy flavour, and the creamy textures they are capable of producing, make this popular root vegetable an incredibly versatile ingredient. A common vegan hack is to use mash potatoes to help replicate the iconic cheesy sauce of…
Potato, Brussels Sprout, and Apple Salad with Lemon-Dill Dressing
We’re now in the strange and somewhat foreboding seasonal in-between, where, despite the still high temperatures and verdant landscape, our psyches collectively start to feel summer slipping away. One of the earliest yet most subtle signs of this seasonal psychological impact is a shift in food affections and cravings. One hot August day you may…
Croque Madame
We’re really in a golden age right now for vegan food. While the outlook in other areas of our society might not be very golden, it’s some comfort to see veganism move ever increasingly into the mainstream. Vegan options and alternatives have never been more readily available (though affordability is still very much an issue)….
Roasted Red Pepper and Kale Pesto Gnocchi with Sausage
This year has been a bit of a cooking lull for me. At the end of the day, or even at the end of a week, or on the weekends, where it seems there should be a bit of a pause, there just doesn’t seem to be enough time or unspent energy to try out…
BBQ Seitan Steak Fajitas
Food can transport us to other warm, pristine places, and fond times, with such authenticity that we can even forget or at least more easily ignore all the storms brewing in our lives, whether they be an ugly winter storm or an internal maelstrom. My trip to Spain over the holidays is still fresh in…
Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
We are well into soup season and with the amount of the stuff that I’ve already consumed it’s inevitable that I’d start to tire of some of the standard options, but there are certain classics whose appeal never seems to fade. Tomato soup was a fixture of my childhood, a feature player at many mealtimes,…
Pumpkin Ravioli with Sage Brown-Butter Sauce
The magical thing about making pasta, particularly from scratch, is how it can feel and taste so luxurious, and make you feel like a Michelin star chef, or at least an accomplished and prestigious home cook, but also be one of the easiest and most affordable dishes you can make. And while there is much…
Radicchio Salad with BBQ Chick’un and Chickpeas
Have you ever had the experience of trying a particular food for the first time and wondering why you haven’t been eating it your whole life? That was my experience with Radicchio. I’d see it in the grocery store, sitting in the produce bins, all shiny, fresh and red hued, and passively acknowledge its existence,…
Sun-dried Tomato Pasta Salad with Roasted Asparagus
So, Toronto got hit with its first official snow fall on Sunday, and yes, it’s late November, but it still somehow took me by surprise. I felt a momentary sensation of delight upon opening my blinds Sunday morning and seeing the world caked in pristine, flaky white layers, but then it gradually gave way to…
Plant and Pine 