Where to eat, what to cook, and what's happening around the city. Straight from the team that has been touring Columbus kitchens since 2010.
The arrival of Bono TOGO has been one of things that made staying in Columbus this summer fun and I have been almost weekly since I discovered this new neighbourhood gem. Bono is on West Russell, a small one-way street off High street, in the Short North and is run by husband and wife
Read moreI love patty pan squash and I am glad to know that I am not the only one as tigers and strawberries just published a great patty pan recipe. They are so adorable that I can’t resist buying them. They are firm textured and grill well. This time I cut them transversely to
Read moreFirst a rant and then some recipes. I had a great trip but was still excited to come home and get back in my own kitchen. I got back on Wednesday evening (sadly not in time for the Upper Arlington farmers market) and decided to go to Wholefoods on the way home to get
Read moreThere were some wonderful, varied and unusual flavors. The quail (not pictured because mine wasn’t that photogenic) was very sweet and tender and went well with the two beers it was served with, including one called smoke ale that was very reminiscent of lapsang souchon. I couldn’t really taste the yellow gingered beets (they were
Read moreI loved Montréal. I could wax lyrical for pages. I spent much of my car journey back to Ohio creating convoluted plans of how I could live there. It really has everything I aspire for in a city – pedestrian and bike friendly, a preponderance of independent shops and restaurants. Quirky neighborhoods, foreignness, European influences,
Read moreI have just had one of the best meals I have had in Columbus, and probably the best meal since my birthday treat at the Watermark in Sydney. I went to a monthly dinner hosted by Lisa (the waitress) who writes the blog restaurant widow. It was held at the North Market which is, luckily for me,
Read moreCape Vincent is a village on the St Lawrence river in upstate new york on the corner of Lake Ontario. It is across from Wolfe Island and from CV you can get a ferry to Wolfe Island and thence to Kingston Ontario. When I moved from Toronto to Massachusetts in 2004, I took the
Read moreI am on a cooking hiatus – on vacation on a 2000 mile road trip to Up-state New York, Canada and New England. This weekend was mostly spent driving to and from St Catharine’s living on Tim Horton’s and avoiding Henley Island hot dogs, but this evening, staying with a friend in Ithaca New York,
Read moreI made a sort of crostini today – or I guess you could call it cheese on toast for a summer day – or odds and ends from the fridge. I had some sun dried tomatoes that I bought from Trader Joe’s. The kind that come in a bag and then you put them in
Read moreSaturday is the easiest day for me to wake up. The prospect of seeing what is new at the farmers’ market has me jumping out of bed much more easily than I drag myself out on a workday. I made it early and was rewarded with some late season raspberries. This week there was a
Read moreI have been wanting to make summer rolls since I helped Joe make a batch at his house. I was planning to try the veganomicon recipe that used roasted butternut squash, but I couldn’t face turning the oven on. Doing some google research on friday afternoon I found an excellent post on tigersandstrawberries with a
Read moreJune was horchata month and I hadn’t made it for a few weeks, but I decided it would go well with the zucchini bread. Horchata is a latin american rice based drink. There are a huge number of variations from different countries and regions and the ingredients vary. Some use actual milk. Joe first introduced
Read moreFor lunch today I made Nigel Slater’s ‘ Salad of fennel, winter leaves and parmesan’ from the Kitchen Diaries. I was inspired to buy the fennel after watching a couple of minutes of ‘You are what you eat’ on BBC America the other day. I had plenty of arugula from the market and
Read moreWe had a pot luck dinner last night for a friend who was leaving town. It was a perfect evening to sit outside, enjoy a couple of beers, good food and company. My first contribution was zucchini, squash and baby eggplants grilled with the remaining vegan pesto I made the other day combined
Read moreAs usual I bought far too much from the farmers market. When I can I go early and I managed it despite having been at the CAPA Life of Brian the night before. It was already crowded at 8am, with more vendors than usual and a more diverse group of shoppers. Luckily I rode my
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