Posts filed under: Dinner

In my favourite episode of Insecure, Issa orders a BBQ Salmon Taco, then proceeds to drop it on the ground when she’s startled by an insanely hot dude approaching her, and it makes her SO mad. I laugh so hard every single time, even though I know it’s coming, and I re-named this recipe in......
At some point during the pandemic, I started making Pinterest boards for dinner parties that I wanted to host when lockdowns finished and life returned to “normal”. To be honest, they were all various Thanksgiving themed boards, based around me FINALLY roasting a turkey for the first time in my life. I decided this was......
I absolutely adore Molly Yeh, and have a series recording set up on my PVR for Girl Meets Farm so I never miss an episode. HOWEVER, it’s pretty rare that I make any of the recipes I actually see on the show, since Molly is routinely doing things like handmaking fresh pasta for homemade ravioli,......
Ever since I started cooking salmon at home during the pandemic, this meal has become an almost weekly occurrence here on Planet Byn. It’s super quick and delicious, and I even love it as leftovers the next day (which can be a weird thing for fish). The recipe comes from my friend Jan’s cookbook Oven......
In general, I’m always trying to spend less time staring at my phone, but Instagram has historically been my downfall. I’m really working on it though, and in January, went on a strict IG detox for the entire month and didn’t even cheat! This seemed to break a lot of bad habits I had, and......
Shawarma is one of the primary joys in my life and I was excited at the prospect of replicating it at home when I saw this recipe on the (oddly named) Plays Well With Butter blog. Obviously I knew I’d never be able to match the happiness of watching chicken shawarma get sliced off a......
One of the (very) few good things to come out of all the quarantines/lockdowns we’ve had since 2020 is that I finally learned how to cook salmon. Pre-pandemic, I occasionally made tilapia or sole, but never salmon, and I’ve always thought I should be eating more of it for those valuable omega-3s. With cooking so......
I unabashedly love Mexican chain restaurants. Give me a a bottomless basket of tortilla chips and salsa, and then a flaming cast iron skillet of chicken fajitas and I am the happiest camper. Lone Star has been my go to for so many years; at my first job after university it’s where I bonded with......
I haven’t made anything new from the Half Baked Harvest blog in a hot minute, and as soon as I started preparing this recipe I remembered why. So many components! So many ingredients! So many dishes! I kind of hoped this wouldn’t be good after all this, but damn, it really was. And it only......
At the beginning of lockdown, so many blogs and food sites talked a lot about pantry meals. These posts presume that a) you even have a pantry and b) it’s well stocked with items just waiting to be used. Well, I definitely don’t have a pantry (just a small cupboard) and I’ve never been the......