THE HUNGRY SQUID

Chocolate is the definitive holiday ingredient. I love chocolate in everything – cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, wrapped in foil or from a...

This morning, I had my first taste of winter. Big, soft dreamy flakes of snow falling from a dove-grey sky, onto cobblestones in the...

There is an amazing little restaurant in the outskirts of downtown Ottawa called The Scone Witch, which makes scones in more varieties...

Lately, quinoa has been doing pretty well for itself. Rising from obscurity in the early 2000s, it has established itself as  somewhat of...

Another post about quiche? Come on, Squid, really? But it’s true – once again, quiche is showing it’s deliciously buttery face on the...

There is no better antidote to the Sunday night ritual of harried workweek prep/Monday dread than a steaming bowl of nutritious and...

My parents have a tradition of growing huge zucchinis. Like really huge. 4 kg huge. And more of them that we can use without becoming...

The combination of sweet and salty is something that I was brought up with. For as long as I can remember, my mother has made variations...

On a blustery, miserable, dark, cold, rainy Sunday, I did not want to leave the house. Oh yes, I know that I extolled the virtues of fall...

When I lived in Kingston, 2-odd years ago, we used to order People magazine. Please, don’t judge – 5 girls, hard at work, need some...

I have never really understood the Twilight phenomenon. A story about a whiny girl madly in love with a moody, aloof and slightly...

A short post, for a quick and lovely meal. Today’s rice and bean salad was taken from the food section of the Ottawa Citizen a long time...

Everyone has, at some point in their grocery-shopping lives, bought too many bananas. The “On Special” signs in neon orange entice you,...

I have a confession to make: I am an autumn junkie. Please don’t get me wrong – a squid likes nothing more than to lie by the poolside on...

Post-thesis submission (5 days ahead of the deadline, thank you very much) and pre-employment (scheduled to begin next week), I have been...

The shoulder of pork was huge. Dark brown marrow, exposed in a thick shell of dense, mother-of pearl bone, was nestled in a sea of deep...

Day 3 of my freedom from the Thesis, and I have entered a new level of food nirvana. M and I embraced the end of this academic era with a...

There is no good reason not to bake a cake. Or, for that matter, to eat one. Cakes are delicious. My favourite ones are moist, sweet (but...

Montreal in the fall is a lovely place to be. The weather is perfect - cool enough that the temperature is perfect for sleeping, but not...

Hello, my name is Squid and I have the travelling bug. I caught it earlier this year, after I came back from the West Coast, a vacation...