Recession Recipes

I’m in Texas right now visiting my family where there is a serious heat wave going on with temperatures in the low 100s and suffocating humidity. We took my little Scottish nieces to the Fort Worth Zoo this morning, where we all lost half of our body weight from sweating so much. A nice crisp [...]

My new favourite cookbook is Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food. It is basically vegetable porn because I just can’t stop reading it. I will sit on the couch with it and read the book imagining all of the wonderful things that I’m going to make. Basically if [...]

I used to associate lentils with hippies who ate bad food and vowed never to go over to the veggie dark side and eat them. However, over the past few years, I have eaten some really good lentils along the way and discovered that they are actually pretty tasty. My favourite kind of lentils by [...]

One night last week, I was trying to figure out what to make for dinner that would prevent me from having to get dressed, leave the house, and go to the store. The fridge was pretty bare, with just some lettuce, a few leftover cherry tomatoes, and an avocado. I did however have some frozen [...]

Like I said last week, we have been eating a ton of salads lately, so in honor of the official start of summer (and the unofficial salad season), Recession Recipes will feature a new salad recipe each day this week.
The first up is Zucchini Carpaccio from the awesome cookbook, The Cafe Cook Book: Italian Recipes [...]

Carlo and I decided to take advantage of all the juicy strawberries at the Farmers’ Market right now by making our own Homemade Strawberry Jam. Maybe it is the English in me, but there sometimes isn’t anything better tasting than a nice slice of toast with butter and jam. So many jams that you buy [...]

Now that summer is here, I find ourselves eating lighter food, which normally means a ton of salads. However, sometimes I get a bit bored of eating lettuce regardless of what we may put on top of it. When you want something light but are sick of salads, this Grilled Asparagus with Fresh Dried Chili [...]

Chilaquiles is one of my favourite things to eat for breakfast. Seriously, what could be a better combination than tortilla chips, spicy sauce, and eggs? I could perhaps eat these everyday and be perfectly content (even though I would probably be the size of a house!).
This Chilaquiles al Guajillo recipe is from Rick Bayless, who [...]

Fresh & Easy, our favourite local grocery store, sent us a few boxes of their new store brand cereal, Mother’s Joy, including a box of corn flakes. Carlo and I aren’t big cereal eaters, but I decided to use the corn flakes to make some Crunchy Fried Green Tomatoes. I had no idea what to [...]

I love strawberries and always have, despite my 15+ year fruit phobia where I did not eat any fruit, or even liked to be around fruit or people eating fruit (yes, I realize this is very strange). Anyway strawberries were always on the safe list because they weren’t juicy and could be eaten with a [...]