Back in the late 1990s, one of my favourite Starbucks drinks was the Mocha Valencia. It was an entrancing combination of orange syrup, mocha syrup, steamed milk and espresso, with some whipped cream topping and special orange sprinkles on top. […]
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Recipe: Make your own goddamned cranberry sauce
You’ve got a potluck coming up for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas, and everyone has been tasked with bringing something. “Oh, no!” you think. “I can’t cook, and I don’t want my family, colleagues or fellow inmates to know I can’t feed […]
Recipe: Authentic Burkina Faso bissap drink
If you’ve travelled the roads of West Africa, you’ve no doubt seen the vendors streetside, at bus stations and at the markets, all selling little tied-shut plastic baggies full of deep-red-purple juice. In Burkina Faso, it’s called bissap, and it’s […]
Recipe: Blueberry Pancakes
It’s Canada Day, and it’s also a long weekend. Instead of passing out and doing nothing until the fireworks start, why not start your day with some very Canadian blueberry pancakes? This recipe is my own personal tried-and-tested variation of […]
Recipe: Balsamic strawberries
I first bumped into balsamic strawberries at a summer food festival in Edmonton half a decade ago. A local restaurant, now sadly departed, was serving up this unlikely combination with a dollop of mascarpone, a trio of flavours that I […]