I’ve gone through phases of insomnia throughout my life and frustratingly different strategies have worked / not worked for each of them. The most recent and worst bout was a couple of years ago, where I’d fall asleep ok but wake up with overwhelming anxiety at 3-4 am and struggle to get back to sleep. Since the…

I don’t know if this is something anyone else is having - I keep dreaming about people who I used to be close with. The reasons I don’t talk to most of these people anymore are usually undramatic (e.g. old work friends that drifted after we left the job). In all of the dreams, these people are either angry with me, or…

Yeah, I know, hence the ‘generally wouldn’t recommend’. Last time I ate the buns was like 8 years ago. Still the best I’ve ever had :\

I love this routine you and your wife shared and I love this news story about the statue. It’s funny....I mentioned this to my husband, who I met in Ottawa, and he hadn’t heard of PSP at all. I haven’t lived in Ottawa for years, but this all makes me wildly nostalgic. There were plans in the works for a visit this May…

I do the ‘put an egg on it’ meal composition all the time but I’m honestly not 100% sure I’ve ever nailed the precise ‘jammy’ thing they’re going for. I’m a confident, pretty well-seasoned cook though, so I know how I like my eggs and I just do that. A squishy over-easy in some contexts, a barely-set hard boiled for…

We always called it “PSP” in conversation because yeah........ hahahaha.

When I saw this title, I immediately thought of Sri Chimnoy. There was a place barely off campus when I went to the University of Ottawa called Perfection Satisfaction Promise which was also run by followers of Sri Chimnoy. I also remember a lot of bright yellow, everything was vegetarian or vegan, and honestly....the…

Yeah, even my regular degular No Frills has them.

This is extremely similar, technique-wise, to the kalakeitto my Finnish family makes. It’s also got a similar short ingredient list - just swap the cloves for allspice, bay leaf for dill, and the white fish for something fattier, like salmon or trout. (Oh, and no lime or hot pepper.) The side carb should ideally be a…

Last weekend, I made some chipotle braised chicken thighs for tacos. A couple of days later, I took the nice rich braising liquid and made a soup out of it with some leftover beans, fresh tomato/onion/garlic/cilantro, and what chicken was left. I ate the last portion of that soup for lunch, with an avocado toast on…

Lentil soups, man. Delicious, sustaining, but for looks......not enticing. I’m not the type to do the fussy topping with like, a sprig of some herb, 2 croutons and a drizzle of something. Accept it for what it is.

....do you mean fesenjan? It is at the top of my to-try list. It SOUNDS so delicious!! (and yeah, looks very brown)

I think the crux of the issue is really near the end of this - if you weren’t the type to do a kitchen flex already, this is not the time to put pressure on yourself to do so (or do ANY new activity expertly!) That said, in terms of isolation social media genres, I think I like the cooking content second-most (pets =…

I REALLY didn’t like that habanero El Yucateca - it’s so obviously got weird food colouring in it to be a kelly green, vs whatever green it’s supposed to be, that it throws me off. I ended up getting rid of it because amongst the other hot sauces in my fridge I never used it. The other El Yucatecas are great though, I…

I’m kind of sad that the Scandinavian aesthetic is going out of style because it meant that my actual ‘I am a person of Nordic descent with a traditional-ish aesthetic’ taste is going to get slightly harder to find. I will say though that it’s not actually that hard to achieve a ‘Nordic maximalism’ - I have two…

I know it’s still in pie format, but my grandfather made an all-rhubarb pie that is my all-time favourite. The notion that it must always be with strawberries is so limiting!!!

I have Very Strong pie opinions and I am well aware that nobody agrees with them. Here to share them anyways:

1. my Vaari’s all-rhubarb pie (secret taken to grave, but I’m working on it in his honour)
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2. Blueberry
3. Coconut cream
4. Key lime
5. Raisin (IT IS GOOD I WILL FIGHT, I know the prairies see me!)

I’d never heard the term ‘relish tray’ until this article but I’m from the part of Canada directly north of the American Midwest and I recognize the behavior. It’s also clearly something my family has adopted, because we have the dishes. I do admit that I’ll almost always put out a pickle or crunchy veggie side pretty …

Older female relatives keep trying to give me fancy segmented dishes!! I won’t accept them!! I don’t have anywhere to store things like that, honestly.

I also experience the pattern of receiving my vegetarian husband’s sandwich instead of the hot wings I’ve ordered, also probably 9 times out of 10. That seems to be a particularly hard assumption to shake. Sometimes I wonder if it’s all gender or if I’m somehow coming across as ‘the type’ who might be ‘eating clean’…