On Heritage, Resilience & Comfort Food

One of the blessings of this time set apart in self-isolation is that my girl seems to be living my childhood. Stores closed in the evenings and on Sundays. Lots of time at home, riding bikes around the neighbourhood, trying to do cartwheels, no rushing to after school lessons or juggling competing activities, and […]

Made From Memory

Okay, friend. I promised you another “make it from memory” easy dish. This is basic, feed the family, weeknight, life-in-a-pandemic, use-what-you-have cooking. No fancy ingredients. Easy steps.

Hopefully, your family liked the last one – one of our family’s standbys – an easy-peasy Burrito Bowl recipe. This is another one-pot, truly easy meal – using […]

When You’re Tired of Making Dinner

Friend, these people I live with. Every single day they need to eat. Okay, so do I, but I remember with some fondness the days before I had a family of sitting down in front of the evening news with a hardboiled egg on a piece of buttered toast for dinner. No other opinions […]

On Planting Pansies

What a weird Spring, friends.
This weird hasn’t been totally unfamiliar to me, though. This season has felt an awful lot like a season four years ago. It’s so like the weeks and months leading up to the first day of Spring, when we watched my Dad’s life on earth end. Living in palliative care […]