Adventures of a Whole Wheat Pastafarian

Inspired by this recipe , I decided to try making my own falafels. I made a few changes, as usual.  On the whole, a resounding success...

My current culinary quest - to learn to cook and love Indian food.  Today's experiment: Samosa! I found this recipe in Everyday Indi...

Last weekend I went to an event called a Spin In.  It's a group of people, who gather in one room and spin yarn.  Most of us have wheels...

I cooked about equal amounts cauliflower and pasta, then gave it a cream sauce.  It tastes way better if it has a chance to cook in the ...

I still have a dodgy tummy from being sick over the holidays, so not much motivation to cook, or even shop for food.  Bento lunches have be...

Being half an hour late for work is not a good time to learn a new recipe.  I had planed on some simple tonkatsu (breaded fried pork) but...

I found some flank steak on sale and thought it would make some fantastic beef bento dish (which I can't remember the name of - probably...

Today's bento was rice, shio koji chicken, tiny tomatoes, cabbage kimpira and those pickled radishes I told you about the other day (v...

Quickly, as I run out the door, let me show you today's bento lunch. Chestnut rice with adzuke beans instead of sweet pota...

Last weeks bento was cabbage kimpira and leftover karaage chicken .  Simple meal, but super-yummy.  I used an extra cabbage leave to separa...

This is one of those last minute, I didn't have a chance to go shopping, bento lunches. . Here we can see spicy tuna and cucumber r...

I am very fond of curry.  Though, I must admit, not too spicy.  But that's the great thing about homemade curry, you can make it as ...

In Japan, they have this amazing thing.  It's a mixture of random things, dried and put in packets or jars, that you sprinkle on top o...

Every year for the local Fall Fair I spend a day demonstrating fibre arts.  It's a whole day surrounded by excited people, barns full of...

This is one of my favourite Korean foods.  It's a bit like Japanese Sushi roles, but it's distinctly Korean.  Just about everythin...

Once you have a sourdough starter, it's very easy to have too much sourdough starter.  It is for that reason that I hunted high and low...