Daily Unadventures in Cooking

This is perhaps the quickest appetizer ever. The tuna grills for only a minute to keep it nice and rare.

Grilled asparagus is lovely with Asian sesame oil which adds a nutty, smokey flavor to each asparagus spear.

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.

A lovely light side dish with asian flavours – a recipe for stir fried bok choy.

A healthy soba noodle soup recipe with fresh vegetables and a miso broth base.

I actually made this dish because I was making some miso glazed sablefish, a soba noodle salad seemed like a logical pairing but I didn’t want to make the version with sesame oil in case it overpowered the fish. This is a very similar but definitely different recipe. I may finally use up that container [...]

This Thai beef salad is spicy, crisp and surprising light — a perfect summer meal.

I think I may finally be over the worst cold I can ever remember having. Thanks goodness. It is the cold I blame for all the soup recipes so this is my final soup for awhile I hope. Or at least the last necessary soup for awhile.That said this really did turn out great. I [...]

Cooking with fermented black beans has been on my list some time while and I have finally gotten around to it. My roommate in university used to make a black bean chicken that had real potential so I have been hoping to relive it a bit. I was able to find the beans in my [...]

The request last night from J was for something healthy. Out the door went my fantasies of comforting risottos and carbonaras and in flew this. I whipped this up inspired by a version from Bobby Flay and served it with a piece of seared salmon on top. It was really nice and I used actual [...]

So, my plans went kahplooey when I woke up at 3:30am on Friday morning with a fever, killer headache and sore throat. Blech. So instead I have spent the weekend on the couch re-watching season 7 of Buffy, working and generally feeling pathetic. I was only just able to get the energy together to walk [...]

There is a reason I am not a doctor, or a firefighter or an air traffic controller, because in a high stress situation I have been known to panic. Take my teeny weeny grease fire the other night. I put olive oil into a pan that was a little too hot and it promptly burst [...]

I have been overly tired and I have had a bit of a tickle in my throat the last few days so it was time to yank some of my hearty meat broth from the depths of the freezer and put it to work. I think the reason I am so tired is because of [...]

There has been a real lag in cooking and posting lately. I have been away the last two weekends without internet and my last large meal I cooked didn’t exactly turn out as I had hoped so it didn’t earn itself a post. Last night I was really craving something healthy – so I decided [...]

Wow, it feels good to be sitting here and writing on my iMac again! How I have missed her sleek white exterior and huge bright screen. It turned out that after they fixed the motherboard one of the fans had gone on her too, so she had some serious surgery and I had to wait [...]

All day Sunday Food Network Canada was running a marathon of Kylie Kwong Simply Magic episodes. Before this I had only ever caught 30 seconds at a time but was never very excited. However I was doing chores and it was on in the background and I found it very inspiring. I didn’t really find [...]

This is a bit of a creation on my part, I was craving an asian-style broth with noodles and prawns so I basically flavoured the broth with what I was able to find at the regular grocery store and some of my homemade chicken stock. another good way to make chicken soup for the sickies. [...]

I am currently trying to recreate a great dish at a Thai place I sometimes go for lunch. It is a super simple premise, they take white rice, layer it with spinach and then add chicken and peanut sauce that is hot enough to wilt the spinach. I actually think I did quite a good [...]

These salad rolls look far more challenging then they actually are but the payoff is great. You can vary what you put in them but the basics start with vermicelli rice noodles and green onion, cilantro is also really nice. Also the larger sized rice paper makes it way easier to get them tightly rolled [...]