Recipe Log

While I’m not especially religious, I find the period of Lent does provide a certain rhythm to the winter-spring seasonal transition. In many traditions, the day before Ash Wednesday is a feast day....

Winter began gently enough, and then got very serious a week or two into January. With the weather so chilly, I thought it was a good opportunity to draw down from my store of chicken stock from the big batch I made for Thanksgiving....

The last month has been busy, with a lot of cooking, and a lot of people cooking for me. There were of course all the festive fixtures. For Christmas, my only small contribution was doing a few side dishes to go along with the bigger meals....

The second half of November arrived with the festive season in all its madness. I really don’t mind the cold or the biting wind, but the short days do sometimes get to me....

Fall has definitively arrived, which presents some interesting contradictions. The leaves have come off the trees and the sun is lower in the sky, which really bathes my apartment in light....

This blog is almost a diary of the weather as much as it is one about food. But then there’s of course such a deep link between the seasons and what’s good to eat....

The month has been an interesting almost paradoxical one from a food experimentation perspective. When so many great things are in season, they need so little treatment, I do more assembly than cooking....

In the last month I’ve once again had to remind myself to take advantage of the summer. With a bit of a time lag, I finally started seeing the peak summer produce....

The past month has been a bit of a blur, with less time than I’d have liked to quietly noodle with food in the kitchen. In some cases in good ways, and in others less so....

It’s been another month of ebbs and flows. I had a bit of a chance to relax, and I also had quite a bit going on. On the calmer side, I had time one evening to try another recipe from the Ottolgenhi team’s Comfort book....