Dawna in the Kitchen

One Cup of Couscous = 4 lunch boxes. I admire the folks who assemble beautiful identical lunch boxes on the Sunday evening to set them u...

Apple Crisp is one of my favourite homemade desserts. It's good enough to serve to company, yet still relaxed enough for any casual sup...

It's a funny thing, but I've been making this for quite a number of years, thinking that it was Mexican red rice. It is not. I mean...

Although there is a version of this dish called Ayam Goreng Asam, Sour Fried Chicken, where the chicken is first fried in oil before the sa...

One of our Christmas gifts this year was the gorgeous cookbook Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. I've been petting the pa...

I've been making crêpes fairly often since we moved to Germany. They're a wonderful, multi-purpose flatbread that you can make in a...

Himmel und Erde (Heaven and Earth) is a classic regional meal popular in the state of Rheinland-Pfalz (also called the Rhineland-Palatinat...

As any Bugs Bunny fan knows, Hasenpfeffer is a delicious German rabbit stew (probably best made without cartoon rabbits). This dish can be...

I've always loved the enticing little dishes of blanched spinach dressed with sesame that one finds in Japanese cuisine. My earliest at...

My last post reminded me that I've really fallen down on posting my bentos, so here's another one: Chinese-inspired chicken wings (...

Ethiopian cuisine has wonderful salads. The cool lemony character of this one is quite refreshing, and the two-tone pink and purple appeara...

I first had this at a little Japanese restaurant in my neighbourhood, one which is both one of the best in town in addition to being one of...

I wasn't originally planning to post these, I just wanted some meatballs. However, after they turned out rather well (Palle suggested ...

Last year, I was surprised and irritated to discover one of my photos (from the era before I labeled them) was being reproduced all around t...

It's bento time again! This is a big bento box for a big appetite. It's sleek, matte black, and has a built in storage compartment...

What happens when you are making gyoza, and run out of wrappers before you run out of filling? Well, you could run out and buy more wrappe...

Another rice post - but rather different from risotto! I've always enjoyed the small bowls of mixed rice, or takikomi gohan that one c...

I realize that I have not yet posted any of the holiday baking or cooking that we have done this past month, and I'm not going to get t...

Internationally speaking, this bento is a little German, a little Ukrainian/Russian, a little Polish... and generally north eastern European...

Apple crisp has always been one of my favourite desserts. It's not the prettiest thing going, so it doesn't suggest you need to w...