The situation you find yourself in
Zen Pot Stickers Parcels of Joy
In Vancouver’s China Town, there was a place, whose name I’ve long forgotten, where I often downed bowls of steaming broth with barbequed duck and […]
Situations
Pistou A French Herb Sauce and Cousin to Pesto
Virginia Woolf once said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” The Pistou is a French sauce, similar […]
Spiced Carrot Cake – Where Is the Wascally Wabbit?
A moist and delicious cake that must be good for you. After all, it has carrots! A super secret method for getting others to eat […]
Pastitscio A Greek Pasta Casserole
The key to the uniqueness of this dish is in the spice mix. You can taste the Mediterranean! My Man calls this one Pas-Tits-Er Pasta […]
Welsh Rarebit An English Cheese Sauce
In some houses it’s called Welsh Rabbit but in ours it was always rarebit. I imagined it rare because we didn’t get it very often. […]
Mixed Nut Biscotti – A Hard Italian Cookie
I used to partake in a Christmas Cookie Swap. Most of the cookies were quite nice, but the very best of them all was Steve’s […]
Ridiculously Easy Pesto Bow Tie Pasta with Shrimp
This is another naughty pasta dish. Why do I love pasta so much! Maybe there’s a little Italian in me somewhere. Nope. I’m English, on […]
Rib Stickin Tummy Huggin Chunky Ragu
Sometimes it takes time to create a masterpiece. This dish is one of them. “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Federico Fellini 2 […]
Love Inspired Pesto
Sir Thomas Moore once said, “A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.” Well, I believe it goes both ways…man or woman, […]
SHEPHERDS PIE The Man Pleaser
Most of the men I’ve know have been meat n’ potato lovers (there was one vegetarian from Oregon but he didn’t last). Most of them […]