Sometimes, the best recipes happen when you gather ingredients that you already have on hand. When I made dinner Saturday night, little did I know that this farro bowl woul ...
Dinner / Food
Maple, ginger and soy oven roasted salmon with potatoes and asparagus
Last week I had the pleasure of teaching a class for Loblaws as part of their Chef at Home series. The class was s ...
Brunch / Dinner / Food
Poke Toasts
Every summer my mum comes to visit for a few weeks. We start our morning by brewing delicious Dominican coffee and having café con leche, while we make breakfast and talk ...
Baking / Food
Maple and AERO S’mores
I'll admit it. I'm the biggest chocoholic. I think it started when I was a kid and after my Friday piano lessons, my mom used to take me to this little bakery near by where ...
Baking / Brunch / Food
Berry tarts with Mascarpone cream
Back when I spent a few years at Le Cordon Bleu, one of the things I loved to bake the most was Mille- Feuille - or Napoleons. Cedric, our teacher and pastry chef was ...
Brunch / Dinner / Food
Avocado toasts with grilled shrimp and feta
Eating out while traveling is definitely one of the things I love the most when I'm visiting a new city. After all, I've often said that you get to know a city trough its f ...
Brunch / Dinner / Food
Crab Cake Burgers
I had my first real crab cake while visiting family in Baltimore. I say "real" because nothing I had before compared to how good these ones were. After all, this city ...
Brunch / Dinner / Food
Black bean burgers
There's something about black beans and rice that I just love. Maybe it's the fact that growing up in the Dominican Republic and having it for lunch any given day of the we ...
Dinner / Food
Tofu, grilled vegetables and hummus burger
There was a time when tofu got very misunderstood. I think we've all heard it called flavourless or something that vegans only would enjoy. It took some time but but tofu f ...