Home, Furniture & Kitchen

Bagels: they’re good for breakfast, amazing for lunch, and when you’re in the mood for comfort food, you just can’t beat them. Instead of heading to the store to get your bagel fix, I’ve got two recipes you can use to create your own. Are you a Montreal bagel person or feeling a little New York-ish? Here’s your chance to find out.

Where I grew up, we didn’t have ‘food trends.’ Everything we ate was simple, basic, and comfortable – from roast beef and mashed potatoes to chili and mashed potatoes. If we were going to spice things up, maybe we’d have spaghetti or pizza.   So imagine my surprise when the person who did all of the cooking during my formative years, the woman who actually served me lasagna and mashed potatoes (I’m not joking), called me up and started talking to me about quinoa. And she wasn’t just calling for a definition of what quinoa is either – she was talking about her long list of personal quinoa salad recipes. I almost dropped the phone in shock. After all, quinoa doesn’t include ground beef or mashed potatoes in the ingredient list, so this was quite a detour.