Dawna in the Kitchen

One of my favourite dishes from Marrakech was an eggplant salad called Zaalouk (also spelled Zalook, amongst other variations). Moroccan cu...

This was a fairly common meal for us, when I was a child. Easily made, relatively quick to prepare, and tasty. My mother would have had at ...

Fall is Pfifferling (chanterelle) season. They're all over the farmer's markets in glorious colour and ridiculously low prices. Th...

Chicken, lemon, and olives are a delicious culinary trinity that appear together in many iterations from many cultures, especially those ar...

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...

Oyakodon, or "parent-child rice bowl" (in reference to the use of both chicken and egg in the same dish) is a beloved Japanese co...

Germany doesn't seem to have much in the way of sausage rolls, despite their willingness to incorporate sausages into almost every othe...

This dish is essentially a hybrid other recipes, which came together as I was fondly recollecting the kind of curried pasta that was always...

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...

There are various stories about why this popular treat is called an "Amerikaner", but none are particularly satisfactory. My favo...