As a child, homemade pasta was a weekly occurrence in my house. I loved to help my mother put the pasta through what we called “the spaghetti machine”. We made the pasta with eggs and all-purpose flour. A certain amount of strength is required to make the dough right. Neither my mother or I [...]

  I’m always surprised how well sauerkraut fits in a recipe. For something that has such a strong taste and smell, it always seems to easily mix with the ingredients and enhance the flavour. Adding it to the orange mint salsa makes it good for the gut by providing probiotics to go with the prebiotics [...]

  Sometimes a cookie just needs to be a cookie. Simple, not too sweet with a nice little crunch. Here are two versions of the same cookie, one using hazelnuts for one and black sesame seeds for the other. I could tell you that hazelnuts and black sesame seeds are good for you. But I [...]