Dawna in the Kitchen

Summer is indisputably salad-time. Appetites are a little supressed from the heat, and an abundance of fresh fruit, vegetables, and herbs c...

Sometimes, it's too hot to cook. You know you should eat someting, and you're vaguely hungry, but it just seems like too much effor...

July 8 was our second-ever Hot Sauce Party. A little earlier in the year than our previous one of three years ago, we were able to use the v...

Sometimes, I read a recipe that is very different than anything I've tried before, but while I am reading it, I find myself nodding and ...

Yesterday, we went to Gibsons to have a family dinner at my sister's house. It was in part a belated Father's Day event, for which ...

What do you make when you have a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, and it all needs to be used up promptly? For my mother, the ...

I am a sucker for Indian food (downright amazing, given my earlier fear of curry ). I particularly like to experiment with hitherto unknown ...

I do like lamb. A few years ago, I realized that I seldom ate it, which was attributable in part to the fact that my family never had it wh...

I've been a little bit AWOL, lately, this I know. Last week, I started a new job, and have been pouring non-food information into my he...

Some like it hot. Good thing, too, because sometimes, at the end of a long day when one is a little bit tired but relentlessly pushing on wi...