Food & Drink
Food, drink, dining, and hospitality are my life long passions.Here I will share relfections on our family favourite dishes, experiments collaborating in the kitchen and wine cellar (joke, my ‘wine cellar’ is the grocery shopping bag), party menus, and the occassional review or shout out to an extraordinary producer or dining experience.
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Beef Stroganoff
Sometimes a dish becomes a family favourite because I happened to stumble on the ingredients while looking for inspiration and an old classic is brought to mind. This is what happened with Beef Stroganoff. I used to go to a morning yoga class near an M&S Food Hall. If I hadn’t already bought stuff for
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Sommel-AI: Char Siu Pork with Riesling
Tonight I’m trying out Waitrose British Free Range Char Siu Pork Medallions. I’ll serve them with homemade ‘Korean carrots’ – basically a quick sweet and spicy pickle of Jullien carrots -, smacked cucumbers – Lao Gan Ma, salt, sesame oil-, Vadasz Kim Chi, broad rice noodles. I asked Chat GPT for a Waitrose wine pairing
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Spaghetti Showdown
This post is inspired by our summer holidays in Montenegro. In Sv. Stepan we go to a little ‘caffe’ each year – we love their family kitchen vibe, and Masha and I always have the local seafood platter for two. Like many tourist spots, they also have a variety of Mediterranean favourites, i.e. pizzas, salads,
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‘Dippin’ Strips and Caesar
This family favourite is inspired by one of my student days lunches: White Spot’s ‘Dippin’ Strips and Caeser’ bought at the Triple O’s concession in SFU’s quadrangle. I see this is no longer on the menu so I guess it’s now a heritage recipe. Just like the dish itself is ‘inspired’ by White Spot, my
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“Perogie” night
Tonight’s dinner was pierogi ruskie, or “perogies” as we called them growing up. They’re a favourite around here and the musings about ‘not having had perogies in a while’, turned to requests to ‘have perogies soon’, to ‘you’re making perogies right? I just bought some…’ I don’t mind taking requests, and perogies are a hometown