Welcome :)

I have been meaning to get this blog up and running for quite some time, and now it's finally here! I grew up around great food my entire life, from the spicy Italian food and homemade pasta's representing my fathers side of the family, to the hearty and starchy stews, 'meat and potato' dishes, and the traditional Irish influenced Nova Scotia meals found in my mothers family. I also have found a taste for travel but since my university student budget dosn't allow for a lot of plane tickets I have developed a interest in trying as many ethnic foods as I can locally instead... all of which have greatly influenced the things I cook and the ingredients I use. Recently I did have the chance to spend a month and a half in Armenia, and so you will surely see some Armenian cuisine within this blog!

I always enjoyed helping my mom make pasta and bread, or helping my dad make make-shift pies as a kid...and cooking food with my cousin Sammy became the main event of our slumber parties (and it still is!). However, it wasn't until I moved out of Nova Scotia that I really began to cook. In the past couple of years I have began to cook more and more, and my taste buds have grown with my skill. I have gone from a strict vegitarian to cooking my very first lamb dish, and from using dried spices to using as much fresh herbs as my student budget will allot for!

This blog is going to be a place to document my culinary sucesses and failures, and will be a great way to share my recipes with my friends everywhere :) Enjoy, and if you have any recipe requests let me know :)

So welcome to my (Shoebox) kitchen!


If you didn't gather from the name of my blog, yes, my kitchen is very tiny!


Please note the abundance of Armenian wine, my Armenian copper coffee pot, and the amazing bright coloured spices, including an insane amount of saffron, which I got for 1500 drams at the Spice Bazaar in Yerevan. Travel makes everything taste better.


And yes, those are chocolate covered peanutbutter balls, recipe soon to come.

Rory<3