A crumble is simple yet feels special. It’s the answer to the bag of apples sitting on your counter or the overzealous amount brought home from apple picking.
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This is a meal you’ll want to make over and over again. It consists of crispy pan-fried tofu, sautéed kale, lots of ginger, and slippery rice noodles that cook in minutes.
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This banana bread has gotten us through many a quiet evening in the pandemic. But we all know that banana bread is beautiful anytime. It’s soul level nourishing, filled with whole ingredients, and the perfect slice of something I’m looking for.
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One of my favorite things to make when I want something filling, cozy, and satisfying. And it’s ONE PAN! Sop up the sauce with some crusty bread, pasta, or keep it light with a green salad.
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A tub of freshly ground peanut butter inspired this recipe. Mixed with some agave syrup and swirled through the rich, chocolatey batter, these brownies are the equivalent of Reese’s peanut butter cups.
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I know, I know, you can buy good granola all over. But homemade granola is a beautiful thing. It means you can splurge on quality ingredients and add in exactly what you want (hate figs? sub with dates or apricots!).
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Squash soup for squash soup lovers! I’ve made various iterations of butternut squash soup in the last few years. Sometimes mixed with root vegetables or cut with a generous squeeze of orange juice at the end. In this recipe, the initial sautéing of the celery and onion give the soup depth, and the spices and herbs: turmeric, paprika,
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I wanted a cake that felt special, seasonal, and had just the right amount of sweetness. This cake has apples two ways – diced into the batter and sliced atop for an #imsomartha moment.
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Tuesday was a cold, rainy day here in Toronto, and I decided that one of the best ways to feel okay about the weather was to roll with it. Does this mean I was zen in the morning, nursing my coffee while looking out the wet windowpane?
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This Mediterranean inspired recipe is meant to be a hearty, balanced, and delicious weeknight meal that comes together in under an hour.
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I’m sure we all have our favourite dessert that goes with our coffee or chai. Mine is a toss up between the perfect chocolate chip cookie or a slice of cake – depends on the time of day,
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guess this is my final ode to peaches. I wasn’t able to perfect my crisp recipe in time, but the desire to keep having these beauties for dessert led to learning how to grill them.
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This salad is inspired by the abundance of parsley at the middle eastern restaurants I grew up eating at. That, and the ever presence of cucumbers in the quick salads my mother made. I serve it with Pakistani food because it’s light, tart, and bright,
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Everyone goes crazy for cherries in our house – I have to watch baby M around a bowl of them otherwise he’ll pop a whole cherry in his mouth, pit and all. He does the same with strawberries, eating the stem without a blink.
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This past weekend I set out to make a mezze based meal. It was inspired by the recipes and stories in Yasmin Khan’s thoughtful cookbook “Zaitoun” and Tara Wigley and Sami Tamimi’s “Falastin.”
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This is a very Sana type meal. I love things that come together in 30 mins, with fresh vegetables, pasta (of course!), and straight out of the pan
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It was about this time last year that banana bread went viral. Did you make it? I fell in love with one by Aran Goyoaga and made the banana bread from her book Cannelle et Vanille once a week. It was decadent and delicious.
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This is the smoothie you see baby dancing to in my insta-stories. It’s the one I make most often for myself and the kids. I love it because it has a good amount of greens, blueberries full of antioxidants
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I usually eat my greens with a quick drizzle of olive oil, a squeeze of lemon juice, a crack of pepper, and some flaky salt. Making a dressing feels like a tall order at dinner time – I have a million things to do, and how vested am I in making this salad taste any different??
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I’ve been dreaming of a chocolate chip skillet pie sort of situation (as one does?), and in my hunt to find one I came across Kale Junkie’s Salted Caramel Cookie Skillet. The “caramel” is a blend of almond butter
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Every Friday night Ali and I watch a movie with the kids – they actually call it “Friday Night Movie Night” lol. We have a fun dinner – like tacos or bolognese, sometimes takeout, making a point to really enjoy it.
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When I was little I wanted nothing to do with haldi milk. It was yellow, too pronounced, and usually administered during another bout of my recurrent tonsillitis.
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If dessert was a love language, mine would probably be chocolate chip cookies. My idea of heaven is a stash of cookie dough in the freezer, the smell of them baking,
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My mother says teaching me to cook Pakistani food is like speaking to a toddler: “Is that a bird, Mama?” “Yes it’s a bird.” “A bird Mama!” “Yes that’s a bird.” “It’s a bird?” “Yes, sweetie, a bird.” In similar fashion, our conversations go something like this:
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Earlier this year I wasn’t feeling well. I had horrible heart burn, stomach pain, and my hair was falling out in shocking amounts (an iron deficiency) – oh, and there was a pandemic lockdown and the kids were home indefinitely.
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i d e a – I got very excited about these za’atar roasted potatoes. The trick was to be pretty heavy handed with the spice, just like the manaqish (a middle-eastern flatbread) bubbling with cheese and a layer of za’atar we used to get in Kuwait – glorious.
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This is probably the first (and so far only) simple cake I’ve mastered. It’s from Small Victories by Julia Turshen, which is a staple cookbook in our home. The kids call it afternoon tea cake
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I first made these over the summer when restrictions had started easing up. We visited a close friend who we hadn’t since BC (Before Covid). Our daughters were born weeks apart and have grown up together.
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