Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Sick of bottled barbecue sauce? Try this spicy BBQ sauce made with dark beer and ginger.

I generally don’t like tartar sauce because it is so sweet, but this healthy tartar sauce recipe is tangy without being cloying.

This lemon sauce is a simple addition to cooked fish or roast vegetables.

A recipe for salsa verde made with fresh tomatillos, a perfect enchilada topping.

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 am back from vacation, and what a great week it was. I really got the chance to appreciate some of the fabulous food items that come out of British Columbia. It is with this inspiration that I post tonight’s recipe featuring BC spot prawns, wild and fresh from the waters off of the BC [...]

Only I could so quickly screw up something on a first attempt. The attempt? Barbecuing. Finally we bought a bbq this past weekend and I was so excited about trying it out. J had already made burgers and steaks and so it was my turn. I decided to make barbecued chicken from Ina Garten’s The [...]

I am not the first person to have fallen in love with this recipe and I won’t be the last. In fact I am back in a Marcella Hazan phase all because of it. I actually do not have the book this one came from, I have 3 of her books but this recipe comes [...]

I made a beautiful roast chicken last night and even had success with my gravy,  I think is the best it has ever been! My gravy abilities are not stellar though… so I am sure anyone out there with good gravy skills could give me some pointers. However we ate it so fast there were [...]

Yesterday, J was having a bad day. We met for lunch and he seemed really down so I offered to make dinner and asked what he was craving. Something meaty, he said. Well, his favorite has always been my bolognese. However, since it was a weeknight I couldn’t make a real bolognese sauce, I didn’t [...]

This is a raita recipe to go with any spicy curry. Make it a bit ahead so the flavours can gel!

I have missed three editions of weekend herb blogging so it is time to get back on track! My windowbox is growing wildly and so this caught my attention because it uses mint. The sauce is really simple and was inspired from a recipe I saw in an Australian Woman’s Weekly book. Of course I [...]

It has been rather a long while since my last post! I spent a wonderful week in beautiful Tofino hiking and kayaking and generally having a very relaxing out-of-doors time. It is amazing how different the lifestyle of a place like Tofino and a place like Vancouver are. As much as I love Vancouver and [...]