Boyfriendly Cooking

Boyfriendly Cooking is about a fairly slim girl who lives with a hungry boy and tries to make good food that they both can enjoy in Ottawa, Ontario. (Note: The boy also cooks for the girl – plenty!)

The unfriendly kitchen

I felt I should update to explain the hiatus in the Boyfriendly Kitchen.  You see we bought a lovely little house and have been spending the better part of the last two months packing, moving and now (dear God) renovating the 1930s kitchen.  New home + renovations + baby = take out pizza.
I swear, once [...]

Date-aversary

Today is our four year “date-aversary.”  Just four years ago, the hubby and I met for coffee at Bridgehead for our first date and here we are four years later with a cat… and a baby! oh, and married!  Crazy.  I tried to quasi recreate the date today – starting off with a trip to [...]

An apple a day

Love love love this calendar.  Peel and stick your apple product sticker onto the calendar to prove you had an apple a day. Love it!

Obsessives: podcast

If you haven’t had a chance to watch the Obsessives podcast over at Chow, you are in for a treat.  (You can also find them on iTunes.)  Each mini episode features an obsessed foodie who shares his or her love of coffee, marmalade, bread etc.  I am totally obsessed with Obsessives and not just because [...]

Meal planning

One of my new year’s resolutions was to continue being a foodie – but with a bit more structure.  We still want to continue trying new recipes, but we need to be a bit smarter about it to reduce trips to the grocery store (with baby in tow) and that “ugh what are we going [...]

End of year foodie list

What an exciting year for us – there was LOTS of cooking, trips to the farmers market in the summer and – oh yeah – a baby too!  Here’s a roundup of our year in food.

Purchase of the wheelie grocery trolly.  Essential for market shopping and no longer just your grandmother’s fashion statement.  Tip: I [...]

Taste testing from our Ottawa Test Kitchen

The weather is all over the map here – freezing one day, raining the next.  Not to mention our little Peanut has a nasty baby cold and is stressing Mom out!  Suffice to say, a lot of eating is going on to “self soothe” since I can’t jam my hands in my mouth like Alden [...]

Freezer cooking

It’s 9am and I’ve been cooking for about a half hour already – it’s a freezer-stuffing-party today. On the menu:

Brown bread
Brown rice and black bean burritos
Bran muffins

Yes, I am only cooking foods that start with B today it seems.
Saturday: 7pm Update
Well, the bread and muffins got baked. And so did I. [...]

The omnivore’s 100

I saw this over at i like to cook but it originated over at Very Good Taste. It’s a list of 100 things that Very Good Taste thinks everyone should eat at least once in their life.   According to this list, I’m not quite the foodie that I thought I was.
Here’s what you do:
1) [...]

Fat (and brain) free

Currently enjoying this:  Cake Wrecks.  (Thanks Tamara!)

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