Recipes

Ethiopian spiced butter, used to make Misir Wat and other dishes

I don't know if this is the best, but it's certainly a decent stir fry sauce

This is one of my favourite lentil dishes. Absolutely delicious, even if you don't have niter kibbeh.

I'll sometimes make these if I have some leftover ricotta that I want to use up.

A good recipe, if a bit more complicated then it needs to be.

My own simplified, vegan version of Pasta e Fagioli, adapted from Once Upon a Chef.

A little heavy on the tomato but still pretty good.

The classic French-Canadian meat pie

Rice pudding gets a bad rap, but I happen to like it, and this is one of the better ones I've tried.

One of my favorite cocktails. It's like a sour, but dialed back a notch so that the base spirit shines through.

Adapted from various sources around the Internet. I add beans, to make it more meal-like, not just a side dish. I don't bother measuring out the onion or pepper. And I use vegetable broth to make it vegetarian.

This is an amalgamation of various recipes I found on the Internet for southern black eyed peas. Can easily be made vegetarian by omitting the bacon and using vegetable broth.

This version of Hoppin' John uses a lot more peas, so it's less soupy. Omit ham hock for vegetarian, use vegetable broth.

Delicious but very rich. I usually reserve this for the holidays, often New Year's Eve.

I based this one off of Jeffrey Morgenthaler's but I cut out a lot of the ingredients. I prefer this one because it's simpler and doesn't fight so much when you pair it with a good gin.

This one is a crowd pleaser and good for brunch

Being vegetarian, this is obviously not a real meatloaf, but it's still pretty good.

A pretty decent vegetarian gravy that I make fairly often to go with both vegetable and meat dishes. This has been adapted and simplified from another recipe I found on the Internet.

The classic Italian dessert. Very hard not to love.

A decent replacement for Triple Sec in cocktails

This is the classic tonic water recipe floating around the Internet. I personally find it a bit complicated and the lemongrass puts me off but you may like it better.

I usually buy chili powder, but occasionally I'm out, and it's not uncommon that I'll have the ingredients lying about.

Another chili recipe, with diced tomatoes so it's chunkier

I know generic curry powder is sometimes frowned upon, but this is a good, reliable spice mix that can be used jazz up chickpeas and soups.

This one comes from my friend JB. I know that Cincinnati Chili can be controversial but I'm an unapologetic fan. The trick is to manage your expectations - this is not Tex Mex chili, but rather its own thing entirely. If you imagine this dish as an exotically flavoured meat-based spaghetti sauce, you'll do much better.