Recipes

For a small city of just over 30,000, Juneau, Alaska, is big on flavor. Restaurants here cater to cruise ship passengers, glacier chasers, and locals. With no roads in or out to bring in fresh food, chefs rely on seasonal foraging and carefully planned gardens. Despite these challenges, Juneau’s restaurant scene thrives…

I’ve been alive long enough to remember when grapefruit was practically a weight-loss strategy. Then came the cabbage soup. The low-fat everything. The low-carb revolution. The points, the shakes, the fasting windows, and the diets that required so much planning you practically needed a project manager…

Halloween looks a little different for me these days. I’m no longer the one getting the house ready for the trick-or-treat parade. Now I’m more likely to be at my daughter’s house, helping hand out the candy and watching my granddaughters head off into the night. I love that…

How many decisions have you made so far today? Maybe you made the choice to get up early and feed the cat rather than listen to meowing for the next 15 minutes, sprayed dry shampoo in your hair to save time…

Not long ago, a friend’s husband told me I was a very beautiful woman. He wasn’t hitting on me. It was simply a lovely compliment, sincerely given. I thanked him, but inside my head, I was thinking: You have no idea how much maintenance this takes now. I may be a little vain. I’m okay admitting that…

Who’s coming with me and jumping on the pumpkin bandwagon? Talk about moving from summer to fall quickly. September barely rolls in and suddenly everywhere you look it’s pumpkin. Pumpkin lattes. Pumpkin muffins. Pumpkin cereal. Pumpkin bagels. Pumpkin candles. Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin…

As I wrote in my August column, autumn is the best time to visit Sicily if you’re looking for ways to stimulate your taste buds. Not only are the temperatures mild, but harvest time arrives in full force, bringing a multitude of flavours.

If you can’t get to Sicily this autumn, the next best thing is to bring Sicily to you! This is one of my favourite autumn dishes, packed with traditional flavours…

I have spent a ridiculous amount of my life standing in front of an open refrigerator. Usually around six o’clock. I would stare at perfectly good food I had purchased only days earlier with the best of intentions. Chicken. Vegetables. Salad ingredients. Fruit. Maybe something I had specifically bought because I had promised myself this […]

For a long time, I believed healthy eating meant compromise. Less flavor. Smaller portions. Skipping the foods I loved. If dinner was delicious, surely I’d done something wrong. I don’t know exactly when I started believing that. Maybe it was years of magazine headlines. Maybe decades of hearing foods labeled “good” and “bad.” Whatever the reason, I stopped trusting my own plate…

I know. It sounds a little unconventional. But yes – I freeze my lemons whole. And I use every single part of them. I have a confession to make. For years, all I knew was to zest a little, cut the lemon in half, squeeze out the juice, and toss the rest into the garburator without a second thought. Half the lemon – gone. Every time…