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!)

Mushroom risotto bake – Take 2

I wanted to try doing a baked risotto again, but without using the canned cream soup like I did last time.  Even though I used the “less salt” version in the recipe last time, I still think that it has far too much sodium (a quarter of your daily intake in one serving).  Donna Hay [...]

Light and creamy edamame pasta

This pasta dish is inspired by the “two pea pasta” in a recent Martha “Everyday Food”.  I meant to follow her “two pea-ness” until I arrived at the grocery store looking for sugar snap peas and only found the saddest, floppiest, unsnappiest peas ever.  I should have known better.  Why did I expect to find [...]

Andouille sausage and whole wheat pasta

After shopping at the farmer’s market on Thursday, I stopped at the Glebe Meat Market to pick up lamb for a Jamie Oliver recipe.  We’ve decided to try and stop buying our meat from the grocery store and throw our support (and a few extra dollars) towards smaller (and local) producers.  It seemed a bit [...]

Mmmm Udon

After a tasty udon soup at Cafe Miga last night, I’ve got it in my head to either a) find fresh udon noodles in Ottawa or b) make my own udon noodles.  I’m hoping the little Korean grocer on Bank will have either fresh noodles (fingers crossed!) or the udon flour.  I found a nice [...]

Tomato-basil tortellini soup

Oh, how I wish I had taken a photo of this soup before we hoovered it down for dinner last night.  The basic recipe for this soup was in the most recent issue of Delicious in the ‘Tuesday night cooking’ section.  We made it on a Wednesday.  No matter.
I think the recipe from the magazine [...]

Casarecce with ricotta, asparagus and sundried tomatoes

We picked up some fancy shaped pasta to make this dish (President’s Choice Memories of Piemonte Casarecce) just for something a bit different.  I’ve been keen to make this recipe since I saw the recipe posted over at Simply Recipes – it just seemed so easy and a guilt-free way to get a creamy pasta [...]

Edamame dumplings

We tried making this edamame dumplings recipe this week and it was a total hit. I blitzed the spices and edamame in my blender, but it was a poor substitute for a food processor. Next time, I’d probably use my hand blender to mash the beans up. I can see this recipe [...]

Meyer lemon barley risotto

I was looking for some recipes that use Meyer lemons and happily found this risotto recipe over at 101 Cookbooks.  I swayed a little from Heidi’s version – I used pot barley instead of pearl barley and I omitted the sour cream (sounded too weird).    In the end, I think it turned out pretty [...]

Mushroom and pot barley risotto

This recipe was a happy accident. As I was making pizza the other night, I made a mental list of the toppings to use from the veggie basket: cherry tomatoes, mushrooms and onion. Except, when push came to shove (ie. cheese grating) I had completely forgotten about the mushrooms. <silence> [...]

Soba noodles with veggies in a ginger-peanut sauce

In an effort to use every last vegetable from our vegetable box this week (and some other cupboard staples), I whipped up this soba noodle dish.

It was pretty good. The recipe that I found online didn’t call for peanuts or peanut butter, but I really think it needed some serious peanut action. I [...]

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