Summery Garlic Salad Dressing

Summery Garlic Salad Dressing, Kiku Corner

I am not a big salad eater. I was never a fan of vegetables. I remember the first time I wasn’t forced to eat my vegetables: I was about 10 years old, and eating dinner at a friend’s house. Her parents served me a green bean dish, and I couldn’t offend her mother by not […]

Toronto Eats: Birthday Dinner at Black Hoof

Toronto Eats: Dinner at Black Hoof, Kiku Corner

In addition to me liking to bake birthday cakes, our family likes to go to nice restaurants to celebrate each other’s birthdays. For Karlos’ birthday a few weeks ago, we had dinner at Black Hoof, a popular nose-to-tail eatery on Dundas St West. There were eight of us there for dinner, so we had enough […]

Garlicky Moutabal

Garlicky Moutabal, Kiku Corner

Moutabal is sometimes called baba ganoush. Although both dishes use roasted eggplant as a base, baba ganoush can also have other vegetables, such as tomatoes and onions, added. Moutabal, on the other hand, is just eggplant. Clear plastic containers of hummus and moutabal were everywhere in Saudi Arabia, even in our high school cafeteria. I’ve […]

Toronto Eats: Birthday Dinner at Pravda Vodka Bar

For this year’s birthday, I wanted to go somewhere different.  New cuisine, new neighbourhood, new ambiance. With Donatello’s brilliant suggestion, we decided to try the Pravda Vodka Bar. We arrived early for Happy Hour, which is one of our family’s favourite tricks to save while eating out, like we always do here.

Radishes on Buttered Baguette

Radish and Butter Baguette, Kiku Corner

How can I include a recipe for radishes without talking about Rapunzel? I was an avid reader of Grimm’s Fairy Tales when I was a kid (and I mean the morbid Grimm versions, where Cinderella’s stepsisters cut off parts of their feet). In the Rapunzel story, a pregnant woman was craving radishes (or rampion, in some versions) from […]