202 blog posts! Here it is -- my 202nd blog post published to Hot Pink Apron. Wow. We've come a long way, baby! It was nearly four years ago, at a time when I was going totally bonkers without a creative outlet to busy myself with between ... [ Read More ]
Dallas Buyers Club Sandwich & Other Oscar Awesomeness
Before having kids, I would make a BIG deal out of the Oscars. Every year I would host 50+ people either crammed into my apartment or at a venue kind enough to turn off the jukebox and turn up the TVs for the night. There would always be a massive ... [ Read More ]
Stay Warm with Slow Cooker Dr Pepper Ribs
These are the thoughts of my handsome canine fella, Bowie. He doesn't care that it's -22°c outside, he doesn't care that I don't share the same insulated furry exterior as him, he just wants me to be outside with him. And when he looks at me ... [ Read More ]
Home, Phở Goodness Sake
Words and images by Dana. I have this memory buried in my head that keeps popping up lately. I was about 18, living downtown Toronto, skateboarding home from a college class. One of my roommates was waiting for me on our Kensington Market stoop, ... [ Read More ]
Don’t Fear the Squash!
When I was a kid, we had squash every Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was our traditional dish, along with turkey and cranberries -- just like the pilgrims ate, I guess. And I hated it. The smell and texture repulsed me and I swore, when I got old ... [ Read More ]
School Lunches for the Uber-Picky Eater
Images and words by Jodi of themotherboards.ca I know I've gone on ad nauseam about what a picky eater my son is, but I'm not sure if I've conveyed quite HOW picky he is. He doesn't like dip. He doesn't like soup. He doesn't like pasta sauce. ... [ Read More ]
An Indian Summer Dinner
There comes a point in the summer where the sun suddenly sets a little earlier, the evenings grow cooler. You can no longer dilly dally around the way you did in July and August, enjoying the garden before you get down to the business of making ... [ Read More ]
Bottlegreen Drinks & Eats
One Friday afternoon, a few weeks ago, a delivery person balancing a MASSIVE parcel rang the doorbell at Hot Pink HQ (aka Dana’s place). This is a familiar sound at HQ, since Dana is married to Homebrew Brett, a man who can never seem to order enough ... [ Read More ]
Rapini Smells Like Home to Me
As you may remember from my last post, I recently moved back out of the family house, for the second time. (Don’t ask.) Needless to say the terms of my leaving this time around were much different than they were when I was a 22-year-old. The slightly ... [ Read More ]
Glorious Leftovers
Words and images by Ship. When I was a kid there wasn’t a week that went by when I would ask my mom what was for supper and she’d reply “glooooorrrriouuuss leftovers” in a sing songy voice and then laugh or stick her tongue out at me if I made a ... [ Read More ]
Cold Soup, Who Knew?!
Words and images by Reagan. I was totally uninspired this month because baby E seemed to be going through some sort of 8-month-old sleep regression, which meant no one in our house was sleeping well. I had no time to do anything between E’s ... [ Read More ]
Breaking Bread
Words and images by Amanda. While I was at university I decided pretty much on a whim that I was going to make my own bread. I realized there was roughly a teaspoon of sugar to each slice of basic store-bought bread and I figured I could do ... [ Read More ]
Keep the Fiesta Going with Baked Black Bean Burritos
Words and images by Jodi. Just in time for Cinco de Mayo, I decided to pull out a burrito recipe from my friend Linda and get down to business. Because of my weekly organics delivery, I was lucky enough to have a lot of ingredients on hand for her ... [ Read More ]
Cathartic Chicken Cacciatore
Words written by Kirsty. Images by Dana. Cathartic & comforting is the best way I can put into words spending an afternoon at my sister's house going through my mom's old recipes cards and handwritten journals. As with many of her belongings, we ... [ Read More ]
I Yam Superwoman
Words and images by Jodi. In my never-ending quest for cooking competency, I continue to try new dishes. And sometimes fail at new dishes. A couple of weeks ago, I was excited to try a recipe for yam gnocchi, as I'd just had a couple of bags ... [ Read More ]
Make My Egg Scottish, Mr. Burns
“Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.” ― Robert Burns Friday, January 25th is Robert Burns Day (..errr Rabbie Burns as the Scots would say). This means that ... [ Read More ]
Give Peas a Chance: A Lennon Inspired Soup
Last year, over Lennon Chicken with Mean Mr. Mustard Sauce and an Octopus Garden Salad, I explained how I had no real chance of becoming anything other than a pop culture junkie since I was born exactly 1 year after the death of John Lennon to a ... [ Read More ]
Keep On Keeping On with Kale Pesto
Born and raised as a dedicated Beatles fan, it took me a couple decades to truly appreciate the rock n' roll genius of The Rolling Stones. I was about 19 when "Starboy", one of the house DJs at Toronto's most notoriously naughty rock n' roll ... [ Read More ]
A Sentimental Journey with Potato and Leek Soup
This soup recipe has me feeling all sentimental-like. Nearly 2 years ago I posted this phenomenal Potato and Leek Soup recipe as one of Hot Pink Apron.com's very first blog posts. 200 posts later, my photography, direction, food knowledge has all ... [ Read More ]
Salmon, Vesper Glazed Salmon
I wouldn't consider myself a "die hard" James Bond fan. I haven't read the twelve novels and have yet to watch all 23 of the feature films but I do love to tag along for an adrenaline-induced battle between good and evil, and this franchise always ... [ Read More ]
Sweet & Heat Ribs for the Win
It all began with a "I make the best chili" remark on my neighbour's driveway about a year ago. With that single moment in one-pot confidence I had inadvertently launched my household and three others into a series of cooking competitions. This month ... [ Read More ]