This may have been there for a while, but I just noticed it. The Toronto Star has a recipe archive and it looks to go back all the way to about 2006. It allows you to search by main ingredient, meal, cuisine, etc. It’s quite good. I find that Star recipes are usually very straightforward and well tested.

Rasa Malaysia is a food blog that my Dad mentioned to me. It features great recipes from lots of different Asian cultures and LOTS of great food photography.

It features sections for Chinese, Malaysian, Thai, Japanese, Indian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Filipino and Nyona cuisine. One absent member are Korean recipes but given the breadth that they cover it’s a forgiveable oversight. Especially since I’ve already discovered Maangchi.

Both the recipes and photography on the site are top notch. I definitely need to start working on my own cookbook!

Cooked lunch for a friend today and she probably wants the recipe so here it is. Putanesca means “Harlot’s Pasta” meaning it was put together by the ladies of the night after a day’s work. It really is thrown together with things from the fridge and cupboard. An easy pasta recipe:

• Dried Pasta (bowties or penne or farfalle)
• Anchovies in oil
• capers
• chopped artichokes in oil
• olives
• sun dried tomatoes
• roasted peppers
• chopped garlic
• chopped italian parsley
• grated parmesan

1. Boil water and prepare the pasta per directions
2. Warm olive oil in the pan and add garlic and anchovies
3. when garlic is softened and anchoives disappeared, turn up the heat and add olives, capers, peppers, tomatoes,
4. Stir in cooked pasta and 4 ounces of the pasta broth
5. Serve topped with fresh ground pepper and grated parmesan