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!)

Brown rice and cranberry pilaf

Brown rice pilaf AKA “it’s just too cold to go out to grocery shop, so let’s make something using up stuff in the pantry.”  It’s -37 with the windchill today and the thought of stepping out any farther than our mailbox is out of the question. So, today I decided to whip on the brown [...]

Mom meal #1: Couscous with tuna and olives

Wow.  Cooking when you have a baby is mega tricky.  The best recipes are the ones when you can stop cooking in the middle of a recipe to attend to diapers, crying or a hungry cat.  So far, this easy meal salad is my new staple recipe.  I should have taken a photo, but well… [...]

Navy bean and bacon salad

About three o’clock this afternoon, the bacon alarm went off.  I knew I wanted some sort of salad with bacon.  Enter Google.  I typed in some keywords: bacon, salad and beans.  Most of the results featured green beans… blah!  I wanted real beans… the kind that don’t taste like freshly mowed grass.  (I am not [...]

Couscous and chorizio salad

I shouldn’t have rushed so much taking this photo, but I was sooooo hungry. It’s a variation on a recipe that I saw in Australian Women’s Weekly “Main Course Salads”. (I highly recommend this series of cookbooks – great photos and simple recipes.) The original recipe called for a truckload of couscous [...]

Grilled eggplant and asparagus salad

The prerequisites that led up to this salad: must have grilled veggies, shaved parmesan cheese and arugula.  I think I was feeling particularly inspired after flipping through Jamie at Home and he did a similar salad (minus the arugula).
After a rare trip to the Byward Market on Sunday, we came home with more than just [...]

Arugula and tangerine salad

This week’s veggie box also included arugula and some *really* delicious tangerines.  Arugula is another super leaf – Wikipedia tells me it’s high in vitamin C and iron.  It’s peppery taste was also considered an aphrodisiac in Roman times.  Ahem.
Moving on.  What to do? Salad time.

Boyfriendly arugula and tangerine salad

2 cups torn arugula [...]

Kohlrabi salad

This week’s veggie box had a kohlrabi bulb – a new vegetable to me. After some Googling, I came across this salad recipe from ABC in Western Australia and thought I’d give it a try.
It was interesting and tasty and would be great in the summer. The ginger is a nice touch [...]