Mardi Michels 
This fall has been a bumper crop for new cookbooks (the stacks in my living room, office and bedroom are constant reminders of this!) and one I was particularly looking forward to seeing was Best of Bridge‘s latest, Sunday Suppers. There’s been a big push recently in online publications, the Food Revolution movement, cookbooks and … Read more
This post is sponsored by Penotti Canada. For this month’s Penotti Canada recipe, I chose to work with the Duo Penotti Hazelnut and Caramel Spread (which contains no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives and is made with sustainable ingredients). It’s really sweet so you only need a tiny amount on a slice of bread or … Read more
If you’re ever lucky enough to score a 15-minute interview with Nathan Myhrvold, don’t think twice before you accept. Don’t wonder if he’ll be intimidating (his work may be but he is not!). Don’t worry that you won’t be smart enough to talk to him (he’s very easygoing!). Don’t worry that your questions won’t be … Read more
Those of you who follow me on Instagram will know that this summer, I spent 7 days walking around 120km along the Camino de Santiago, from Logroño to Burgos in Spain. This was the second leg of the Camino that I started in 2016 (if you’re interested, I wrote a Q&A post in response to … Read more
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was an interesting once – buckwheat crêpes filled with seaweed butter, rolled and fried in a butter. Um, ok? Now, I’ve been to the Breizh Café of which he speaks in the recipe headnote but to be honest, I’ve never noticed the … Read more
This week in cooking club, both Les Petits Chefs and my Cooking Basics boys made Jamie Oliver’s Easy Rustic Gnocchi. Two words I like to see in recipes when cooking with kids – “easy” and “rustic”. Of course, my boys know that Jamie’s easy and quick isn’t necessarily easy and quick in a science lab … Read more