Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns

  These Hot Cross Buns are made with a sweet buttery enriched dough that makes an incredibly tender crumb.  I usually make them with currants and mixed peel, but you […]

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The Goldmans’ Latkes

The Goldmans’ latkes

High-starch potaoes (like russets or yellow flesh) are the best choice when making latkes. Popular in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, they’re traditionally prepared to celebrate Hanukkah. Keep a splatter guard  handy to […]

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Three Sisters Soup

Three Sisters soup

Together, corn, beans and squash are known by many First Nations/Indigenous Peoples as The Three Sisters. This recipe was inspired by inspired by Haudenosaunee teachings and harvests at Kitchener’s White Owl’s […]

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Spring Rolls

Spring rolls

Fresh-made, these spring rolls with a shatteringly crisp skin with a light filling full of tender-crisp vegetables and sweet shredded crabsticks. Unliked the ones often found in restaurants, these ones […]

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Germaine Catchpole’s Wild Rice Pudding

Germaine Catchpole’s Wild Rice Pudding

  If there’s one fruit knits much of Canada together, it might be the blueberry. For thousands of years, those wild indigo-coloured berries thrived in the boreal forest’s acidic soils that […]

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Russian Salad

Russian Salad

Called “Salad Olivier” in Russia, Russian Salad is a classic of Serbian cooking. It’s a hearty potato and egg salad made with vegetables, gherkins and Milena Protich’s version includes chicken, […]

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Ben James’ Lamb Biryani

Ben James’ Lamb Biryani

South Indians have been eating layered rice and meat dishes  for about 1800 years, but it’s the Mughal Dynasty (early 16th to mid 19th centuries) that’s most associated with biryani. […]

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Garlic Pork

Garlic Pork

Guyanese garlic pork is a pickled meat dish based on dishes that came with Portuguese settlers. Well-seasoned pork is brined and then fried until the meat is browned. It’s often […]

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Saturday Soup

Saturday Soup

Many Jamaican homes have a pot of soup simmering on the stove on Saturdays. It can be any soup, but Teneile Warren’s Saturday Soup features pumpkin and root vegetables in […]

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Aussie Burger With The Lot

Aussie Burger With The Lot

Building an Aussie Burger with The Lot is all about layering up. The challenge here is to keep the burger’s toppings from dropping out so all the flavours can mush […]

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