Spaghetti with Parmesan

If you love pasta and you love parmesan, then this is the recipe for you! It's a simple but delicious working-at-home meal that has featured regularly on my menu since returning to North America at the start of the pandemic. (Parmesan was somewhat more precious a commodity in East and Southeast Asia!) You can of course make this fancier - fry some minced garlic in butter, swap out the cheaper parmesan crumbles for freshly imported and/or grated, et cetera - but that versatility is what has made this a staple in my family. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Sriracha Mayo

I will be eternally grateful to one of my favorite people for introducing me to this! So simple and so good. I'm embarrassed to say it goes on pretty much everything when I've got some in the fridge...

Chicken Shell Soup

First off the bat, no, this recipe is not trying to reignite the chicken or the egg debate, it just shows my pasta of choice in its name! It's just started snowing again here in Saskatchewan - a month after our first snowfall! - and so naturally my favorite fall soup came to mind! I wasn't feeling the version with rice I often make though, so this is my attempt at a chicken noodle soup. I hope you like it as much as I do!

Lazy Day Blueberry Pancakes

This is truly the laziest of lazy day recipes once you've moved past a bowl of cereal or DoorDash! Super easy, super yummy, and quite flexible if you want to add extras!

Ful Medames with Berberé

Ful medames has been a favorite of mine from my first samplings, the very first on a holiday in Egypt and the second during a visit to friends in Tigray in northern Ethiopia. I fell in love with both versions, and woke up recently with a craving for Ethiopian-style ful. What follows is my own recipe based on my (admittedly very rusty!) memory, what I had in the pantry, and it being a fast day when I made it.

Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup

This is another blend of a couple of recipes, from here and here. Ham seems to be a popular add-in to split pea soup in North America, but more often than not I make it as below for days when I'm vegan. I think this recipe is delicious as is, but feel free to add some ham or bacon if you're wanting that richer flavor in the end product!

Broccoli Chicken Casserole

I was catching up on the videos of one of my favorite YouTubers, Beryl Shereshewsky, and she reminded me in one of her recent videos about the existence of one of those classic staples of the church potluck, the broccoli chicken casserole! The video as a whole really took me back to that world of very classically American potluck cookery, and left me with a craving for some broccoli chicken casserole in particular! (Also, I had some broccoli and chicken that I needed to use up...)

Basic Borscht

Borscht is a nostalgic dish for me, something that always brings back memories of days spent at my godmother's house, where there would often be a giant pot of borscht bubbling away on the stove. She was from an area in southern Russia very close to what today is southeastern Ukraine, so her borscht was a bit different from what's more often considered standard by Russians and Westerners alike.

Spiced Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bakes

 This recipe is another old favorite that I'm putting up so that I don't have to wonder about exact measurements if the original recipe ever gets taken down. I hope you enjoy this as much as I have over the years!

Zupa Ogórkowa

This creamy dill pickle soup is an old Polish favorite from this wonderful blog that I've long enjoyed, especially in the wintertime.  I've made minor modifications based on my own preferences, so feel free to adapt from here or follow the link to give the original a try!