What’s your signature Summer or family gathering dish? You know, the one friends/family always request of you for celebrations, potlucks or casual cottage meals? This simple Greek Pasta Salad would be mine. I’ve made this for everything from our babes’ buffet birthday spreads, baby/bridal showers & SO many family BBQs! We’ve just been given the green-light to hug our Grandparents again via safe social
Like anyone who values human decency, our hearts broke with the latest injustices towards the Black community brought to light over the last few weeks. We’ve refrained from posting our usual food content: 1) because, honestly, we lost our appetites; and 2) carrying on “per usual” didn’t feel appropriate when their was more purposeful work calling us all to – learning about, listening to &
We’re celebrating Victoria Day long weekend (May 2-4) here in Canada, so when I polled you guys on our IG stories about what family recipe you wanted us to share next, I thought it might be in the salads and grilled meats categories since it’s the kick start to backyard BBQ season, but nope, you picked our Old School Mac n’ Cheese by a landslide!
While many of the fun family things we love to do in the Spring are on hold, we’re bringing more Spring-y vibes to our kitchen and dinner plates instead. We love all the fresh ingredients that come to market this time of year, and have a simple, quick & nutritious recipe for you to try with your own gang – our Springtime Asparagus &
Still #notabaker, but I like tasty loaves & I cannot lie and we found this gem of goodness tucked in Mom Kerr’s recipe clippings collection this week with (simply the best) ideas dating back to 1982 – Vintage Pinterest. This one might give Banana Bread a run for it’s yummy says our oldest son & is so simple to make. We modified a few
April is one of our favourite months to travel. It usually marks the end of a long Winter & demanding hockey schedule – our time to exhale & connect as a family off the grid. I think we’re all missing those escapes fiercely that were part of our well-being…something wanderlusty to look forward to. We’ve had to cancel all of our family travel plans
Like many of you, we’ve been spending a lot of extra time in our cucina of late. While the circumstances are heavy ones, we’ve been trying to make the best of it connecting in creative ways over food. The kids are enjoying getting more involved in meal prep, and we’ve got a silly easy recipe to share we think your budding kid chefs will
As we all try to keep up with our homebound hunger games feeding our gangs all day long, we know many of you are looking for a bit of a vacation from using your ovens. As much as we love cooking, we could use a break too! So we’ve rounded up some of our favourite No Cooking Required Family Recipes & food plates we hope
We hope you had a beautiful Easter/Passover weekend & found some joy amidst the heaviness of the times. We missed loved ones dearly, but found some comfort in dusting off sacred family recipes from the vault – Dad Chef made Perogies from scratch using a vintage recipe from his Ukrainian maternal side, and I tried my Papa’s Canascione di Pasqua (Italian Easter Pies) recipe –
Exactly one year ago this week we were packing up our mariachi band and heading for a Mexican whirl in beautiful Playa Mujeres. We’re daydreaming of when international travel will be possible again, but until, we’re going to bring some cultured cooking to La Cucina and share some recipes from our favourite international destinations with you over the coming weeks, like this easy, simple &
