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Big Breakfasts
The food: breakfasts on the road Multi-Grain Clairecakes from Claire's on Cedros The story: My usual idea of breakfast is one piece of hot buttered toast eaten in my own kitchen, and my idea of brunch...
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Winter Comfort Cake
The food: maple cream chomeur pudding cake The story: After spending two weeks in sunny southern California this past January, it wasn’t easy to come home to cold, gloomy, gray Toronto. Back home, I...
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After Sotto: Minty Lemony Lamb Ragu
The food: pasta with minty, lemony lamb ragu The story: While in L.A. in February, my husband E and I had lunch at Sotto, a newish spot located just south of Beverly Hills that serves what it calls “an...
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Isabel Huggan Answers the Hungry Novelist Questionnaire
Isabel Huggan is a Canadian writer of fiction, essays and poetry. She makes her home in Tornac, France, where she recently established Le Mas Blanc Writer’s Retreat. She wrote about the years she and...
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Savouring Local, Seasonal Asparagus & Strawberries in the South of France
My writer friend Isabel Huggan makes her home in a lovely old stone house in the French countryside, near the town of Tornac, in the foothills of the Cevennes mountains, 7 km from the small town of...
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My Own Personal Sweet Table
The food: Sweets Galore The story: I like to say that before I met my husband E, I was not a dessert person, and it was he who introduced me to the sweet table side of life, though so thorough was my...
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Cross-Continent Eats
The food: eating Aspen-style, with a bonus stop in Minneapolis The story: In June, I attended the Aspen Summer Words Writers’ Retreat in scenic Aspen, Colorado, a town filled with Victorian era...
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Luba Lesychyn Answers the Hungry Novelist Questionnaire
Soon after finishing her graduate studies in history, Luba Lesychyn landed on the doorstep of Canada’s largest museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, where she worked for more than twenty years. Life after...
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Comfort Chicken Chasseur (and it’s gluten-free)
The food: Chicken Chasseur Chicken Chasseur Hungry Novelist Style The story: Fall has arrived (begone, overly hot, overly long summer!), and while I dislike the cold weather as much as the next person...
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Eating Well for Less in Venice
The food: good cheap eats in Venice, Italy During my first-ever visit to Venice, (on a long weekend in early November) I saw a little high water, many tourists, and beautiful art, architecture and...
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Goodbye Twelve, Hello Thirteen: The Hungry Novelist’s Year’s Bests
Best Restaurant Meal I Ate That I Didn’t Blog About: mixed salads at Joan’s on Third in Los Angeles My pics don’t do the food justice – that might be why I didn’t post about how much I loved the...
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My Year of Revision & Fried Chicken
There’s a good reason I haven’t posted here for 12 months. Or there’s a reason, anyway, which is that I spent most (okay, some) of the year hidden away in a cave (also known as my study) rewriting and...
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After self-promotion, eat pie
The food: Dutch-style Apple Pie with Jokes Lattice The story: In the run-up to the publication date of my comic food-sex-and-telepathy novel The Oakdale Dinner Club in May, (only 3 months from now!),...
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Gorgeous Grilled Cheese Inspired by Chef the film
The food: The story: My new food-centric novel The Oakdale Dinner Club is now available, where books and ebooks are sold! As part of my half-baked fun-filled campaign to promote it, I’m...
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Suits Recap, Season 4, Episode 2: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
We begin with Mike and Rachel at their apartment on a weekday discussing how working against each other on the takeover of this Gillis guy’s company mustn’t come between them and trying to set ground...
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Suits Recap: Season 4, Episode 3: Two in the Knees
The more I watch Suits, the more I realize how small the cast is. While there are name-ish actors in meaty, multiple episode arc guest roles this season, the series is no longer all about Batman and...
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Cream Cheese Sandwich Loaf: Retro Goodness or Please Make It Go Away?
The food: Cream Cheese Sandwich Loaf AKA Frosted Ribbon Loaf AKA Run for your Life Party Sandwich Loaf, as per Betty Crocker The story: In a scene from my new novel The Oakdale Dinner Club, Alice, one...
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Suits Recap Season 4, Episode 4 – Leveraged
We open with Donna, showing cleavage and doing her best tight-dress-and-heels sexy walk through the Sidwell offices. She struts right into Mike’s glass box before his Wannabe Donna assistant – whose...
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#Suits Recap: Season 4, Episode 5: Pound of Flesh
Rachel is asleep alone in bed (in full eye makeup and a cute sleep T-shirt and shorts) when her cell phone vibrates, Logan calling. She does not pick up, but freaks out when she sees it’s past 9 am,...
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Suits Recap Season 4, Episode 6: Litt the Hell Up
Multiple appearances by Suits USA merchandise (mug available in the online gift shop on your way out), tense meetings, blue files handed back and forth, tight dresses worn well, Rachel bringing her...
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