Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Looking for a way to cut calories and fat from your families diet without losing out on flavour? Try Bison!

Try this Southern Italian dish which takes perfectly al dente spaghetti and tosses it with salami, a spicy batch of tomato sauce and peppery arugula.

The key to this spaghetti and meatballs recipe is how simple it is. I swear you can throw it together quickly and your kids, and mine, will love it.

A vegetarian pasta recipe featuring fresh Swiss Chard. The chard is blanched then tossed with sauteed chilies, garlic, and raw eggs to make a spin on carbonara.

A beautiful bright and easy vegetarian cannelloni recipe with tangy goat cheese, zucchini, spinach and artichokes.

If a pasta with braised pork belly can be considered fresh, then tossing it with lovely in season asparagus and fresh cherry tomatoes is the way to do it.

A pungent, smokey macaroni and cheese with salty chorizo sausage and green onions to cut the richness.

The peppery arugula is a nice contrast to the creamy, buttery Brie in this easy spaghetti recipe.

An easy, earthy and creamy pasta recipe with wild mushrooms, chicken and white wine.

Five of my well-loved and easy pasta recipes, perfect for a novice cook or an easy weeknight meal.

A macaroni and cheese recipe should be rich and gooey, and just a little bit bad for you. This version is an interpretation of classic comfort food which adds rosemary, sweet winter squash and some mustard for balance.

This Asian noodle salad is a healthy meal in itself which is perfect for a potluck or a packed lunch. The crunchy fresh vegetables bring the vibrant colour and the chicken adds a dash of protein to these tangy peanut noodles.

This lasagne is quite different then the traditional american lasagna with no tomato sauce at all. The dried mushrooms give the sauce a rich, earthy depth of flavour and the bechamel is creamy and delicious.

What would you do if you had one black truffle? Would you use it sparingly, or use it all up in one amazing meal?  Amazingly meal, obviously.  According to Marcella Hazan, “This dish should be reserved for lovers“. Yes, yes indeed reading that was enough to convince me this was the recipe to use my [...]

I bought a large bag of parsnips from a local farm stand last week in my quest to eat more local and more seasonally.   When it came time to use them I didn’t feel like having plain roasted parsnips so I decided to put them right into our pasta dinner. It is the sweetness [...]

This Fall lasagna is not your typical meat and bechamel lasagna, classics are delicious but why not try something more seasonal? First roast up cubed squash with spices and hazelnuts and that becomes your basic sauce.  Then wilt the kale into some tomatoes and start layering your sauces with your noodles, putting goat’s cheese and [...]

Here is another variation on a classic Italian pasta dish. Recently I made a healthy spaghetti carbonara, this week it is spaghetti puttanesca. I started with the classic recipe but rather then using anchovies and olives to make it salty I used feta and olives. To make it a bit healthier I added baby spinach. [...]

When egg yolks are used in a pasta which feature vegetables it doesn’t have to be heavy at all and the eggs give it such a delectable and distinctive flavour, perfect for a vegetarian pasta recipe.

After trying this pasta I am totally in love with rapini and looking for more rapini recipes. It is bitter and nutty, and so lovely with the salty feta.

Shrimp with white wine and garlic is always a popular combination, but when you add in the local tomatoes and baby leeks it brings a beautiful sweetness to this classic dish.