Dawna in the Kitchen

These were actually made with Hokkaido squash (aka Red Kuri, amongst other names), rather than what we might usually think of as a pumpkin ...

This is my version of the famous northern Indian vegetarian curry featuring peas ( matar or mutter , amongst other spellings) and fresh ch...

Ginger salad dressing is so fresh and delicious tasting that it can make even the saddest pile of limp iceberg lettuce palatable. It turns ...

Congee (also called jook in Cantonese, amongst many other names worldwide) is a rice porridge popular throughout Asia, and there are many ...

For some reason, in Canada (and in parts of the USA) we called orange-fleshed sweet potatoes ( Convolvulaceae ) "yams" even thoug...

This was taken pretty much directly from a Buzzfeed Tasty video. I've adjusted things to our tastes and the current state of the pantr...

Persian cuisine is full of delicious, slow-simmered dishes that are very satisfying on cold winter nights - even more so if you've had ...

My mother called these "Summer Cookies" because you could make a batch on the hottest day of the year without turning the oven on...

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 ...