From right around the time Alexandra could say “da da”, I’ve made a point of teaching her as much as I can about food. By the time she blew out the candles for her second birthday, I could put a pizza dough in front of her, a bowl of sauce and some grated cheese and after a...

I’d like to say that I was inspired and feeling creative and really into Japanese food and all that, but the reality is I just didn’t have a lot of food on hand for lunch one day and this was the result. Thank goodness I at least had a few fresh mushrooms in a bag in the crisper....

Adding some magic to Atlantic Salmon in the form of curing. A super-easy gravlox, or cured smoked salmon. This is a cheater version that uses smoked paprika along with the salt, suger and pepper to give it a smokey and slightly smokey note. Wonderful stuff.  We inhaled all of it in two days....

If you’ve been kicking around the Food Funk global scene for a while, you know that my team is a huge fan of the classics. We love our burgers, our spaghetti’s, our pizza pies and we love us some meat loaf. This classic, made popular in the 1950s by housewives while the Don...

A fresh pasta dish I made at my cousin’s home in Oromocto. After a camping trip, I picked up some fantastic local tomatoes at a roadside farmer’s stand and headed to my cousin’s place to get some use out of a pasta roller she bought recently.  The pasta turned out great....