Arugula-Cilantro Pesto with Yogurt

I have a lot of admiration for those who can whip up some delicious meal with just the ingredients from their fridge and pantry. My pantry is relatively well-stocked, but my refrigerator is almost always devoid of anything useful. A few containers of week old take-out food, bits and pieces of wilted veggies, yogurt-eggs-butter-cheese-etc with very dubious expiry dates and lots n’ lots of beer – these are the staples in my fridge.
So home alone one day when just the […]

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Past few days might have been the most humdrum foodie days of our lifetime. There hasn’t been any cooking happening in our house, and actually not much eating either. I won’t go into the details today, but it’s really been a difficult time. I might feel like writing about it some other time, today is definitely not the day.
One good thing that happened out of this near starvation was that I got a new found appreciation for an old favorite. […]

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