What's your worst birthday? Think back. Was it the time your parents got you the stupid book about farm animals instead of the supercool video game? The time your mom made a saggy vanilla cake or oatmeal raisin cookies instead of buying one from the grocery store (or better yet, … [Read more...] about A Birthday Best Forgotten
Archives for September 2018
Chicken and Vegetable Soup with Confit Garlic Oil and GAPS Diet adventures
I'm not actually on the GAPS diet, but I'm writing about it for an upcoming magazine edition. I came up with this recipe because I was thinking about how monotonous the first phase of the GAPS diet must be (though brief, thankfully). And then how over the next year or so you're … [Read more...] about Chicken and Vegetable Soup with Confit Garlic Oil and GAPS Diet adventures
How Did My Garden Grow? My Community Garden 2018
I can barely call myself a gardener. For four years now, I've had a garden plot in the southwest of Montreal and I've learned a little from the Bangladeshi women, Quebecois men and published authors who share my tree-lined oasis right next to a train track. Why there's a hammock … [Read more...] about How Did My Garden Grow? My Community Garden 2018
Local Delivery and Meal Kits from Three Montreal Companies on Global Television
I headed back to Global TV this morning to talk about the weekly meals and mealkits from Bon C Bon, Crealunch and HelloFresh this morning. The amount of food I had for Laura could taste could feed a small army, and she was a real trooper about giving all the pasta a shot. As … [Read more...] about Local Delivery and Meal Kits from Three Montreal Companies on Global Television
Garam Masala Roasted Cauliflower “Wings”
When I ate my first vegan buffalo "wings," I was floored. They had to be deep-fried. They were chewy and spicy and warm and rich. I even kept pestering the cook, trying to get her to admit there was gluten in the breading. Nope, no breading, she said. Worcestershire? No. Soy … [Read more...] about Garam Masala Roasted Cauliflower “Wings”