Creamy Homemade Hot Chocolate
Valentine’s Day evolves as life and family changes. Â There used to be pressure for a perfect date night with reservations at a nice restaurant, a well-chosen gift, and an evening…
Winter
Creamy Butternut Squash Fettucine Alfredo
Butternut Squash Fettuccine Alfredo recipe on www.foodess.com I’m sorry, resolutioners, I tried to focus on sparse greens for the month but by the third week I just wanted to stick…
Chewy Ginger Cookies
These ginger cookies are chewy and crackled and covered in sparkly sugar. Â Perfect for baking with your favourite little elf. This weekend we said goodbye to Adarsh’s parents. Â Their six-week…
Poori-Bhaji, Indian potato curry with fried flatbread
My mother-in-law is a fabulous cook, with her specialties ranging from rich, bejewelled biryanis to humble lunchtime tuna “cutlets” (pan-fried fish and potato cakes). Amma doesn’t really like to cook,…
Maple Five-Spice Roasted Butternut Squash
I am quite adverse to the culture of New Year’s resolutions, because they tend to be lofty and idealistic and punitive… and they tend to totally bomb within three weeks…
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Chewy White Chocolate-Ginger Cookies
I like my ginger cookies chewy. But what typically makes them chewy? Molasses. The thing is, I don’t really like the flavour of molasses in sweets (in baked beans, and…
Candy Cane Fudge Swirl Ice Cream
I might be the world’s biggest chocolate-mint fan. It’s something about the way the chocolate thickly coats your tongue as it melts and the icy peppermint just breezes right through.…
Merry Manhattan, a Christmas Cocktail
I have a delicious cocktail for you, because it’s December and, this month, cocktails on Monday is the right thing to do. Plus, you might need to take the edge…
Soothing Chicken and Rice Soup
I made soup. Again. Because we have been sick. Again. I’d love to have more glamourous things to talk about. But since and I spent last week in its entirety…
Homemade Samosa Pie
I luuuurve samosas. The kind we get around here are mostly vegetarian – mashed potatoes, soft peas, gentle heat from green chili, enclosed in a flakey, deep-fried pastry crust and…