With the onset of warmer weather in New York, all I'm craving is seafood. Wandering around the farmers market on a balmy afternoon, I decided to buy a few random ingredients and take a 'ready, steady, cook' approach to dinner. 

I've been blessed for the last year living with a girl who loves to eat, and will eat anything I put infront of her. So for her birthday I decided that instead of going out for dinner, we should have a dinner party at home. So we squeezed 15 people into our tiny apartment for her birthday feast. 

What I am about to offer here is not a seafood book review, restaurant review or a recipe. It is the brief tale of my strange weekend that includes all three, and my subsequent realization that my salmon feasts must become a quarterly treat as I try to aim lower in the food chain to sustain myself. 

Sometimes you aren't really sure what you feel like eating, and want to eat a little bit of everything. This is where the Everything Bagel comes in. Covered in every delicious grain you could want, and perfect with your favourite filling, from LOX to peanut butter. 

Growing up we always had pet chickens. We had one special one particular called Timmy- a silkie bantom who never quite fit in with the group. Not only is he special because of his mad-scientist look, but he is special because unlike your everyday roast chickens found at your local butcher & supemarkets, silkie bantoms have black skin and black flesh. 

There are some things about American Supermarkets that still baffle me. How can it be easier to buy a pigs’ hoof than desiccated coconut? Why are deodorants, hair spray and face wash kept behind locked cabinets? Where they sell whole octopus, baby sharks and clams but not almond milk?

Nothing says fresh and happy dining like mediterranean cuisine. This is a great feast for a Sunday to set you up for a good week, complete with a tasty pack lunch to get you through beginning of the week madness! 

I've never butchered a pig before, but have always wanted to. So needless to say was very excited about the first day of school this term.. it was the first day of our charcuterie class and our first chance to break down a whole pig. Be warned, images are not for the faint hearted, or animal loving. 

Food is fun, generous, sumptuous, beautiful, satisfying, mind consuming, addictive and sickening, just like the perfect mate. So to celebrate Valentine's Day, we've enlisted the expertise of "Internet food police" blogger Cook Suck to compile a list of sexy vs unsexy food.

Cannoli (plural for cannolo, meaning 'little tube') a classic Sicilian dessert. Crunchy pastry filled with ricotta and marscapone, what's not to love!? 

A not-so-cold winter in New York and a recent ice-cream making lesson at school has left me on a ice-cream making feista- from Asian inspired to Middle Eastern and a all time classic. Here's a tasty trio of flavours perfect for any time of day and any time of year. 

Greenpoint is blessed to be home to the brand new Selamat Pagi, latest venture of the Van Leewuen crew, and New York’s only restaurant serving up Balinese cuisine.

New York-based Australian artist Linda Saffiotti woos us with her elegant and seductive watercolour, revealing the deeply gooey, chocolately nature of this irresitible dessert.

Jess Rotter's illustration captures the blissful drunkeness you feel from the intense yet delicate flavours of this eggy buttery sagey breakfast.

If we had a band called 'Eggs' this would definitely be our album cover. 

It's really refreshing to see a food magazine that doesn't contain celebrity chefs, advertisements about refrigerators and calculated, repetitive images of food.

We'd be lying if we said we weren't fans of Justin Timberlake.

Josh Cohen presents us with the perfect breakfast spread for this week Creative Recipe- just in time for your weekend breakfast planning! Josh's print would make for an awesome textile, breakfast trousers anyone? 

Being a lover of all things food and fashion, the blog Miss Moss, really struck at my hearts strings in a total 'I wish I had thought of that' moment. 

Lunchbox is a collection of small acrylic paintings created by San Francisco/New York based artist, Dan Kenneally. These colourful minimalist treasures feature colourful strips representing the ingredients on classic sandwiches.. Head over to Dan's Lunchbox website to check out more of the collection - he even takes commissions for your favourite sammiches. Yeah! 

Guess in Greenpoint is an underground dinner club run by Aimee Hunter. Set in the basement of her Greenpoint apartment. Each dinner has a different themed and the space is completely converted each time.

Peter Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her!
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And then he kept her very well! 

Sarah is designer and illustrator currently residing in Brooklyn (via Kansas). In her work, she is interested in making ideas tangible and telling stories. She plays a mean guitar and can bleach a denim shirt better than Bon Jovi in the 90's. 

This illustration of Orange Creams captures sense of quirky style and story telling perfectly. 

With the return of my winter coats, opaque stockings and woolen socks, my craving returns for hot, home cooked, comfort food.  And there's no food in the world that satisfies the 'wanting to eat a cuddle' craving more than Poutine.

Marbling refers to the quality of a surface that has streaks of colour, like marble, and is a technique more often associated with arts & crats rather than in culinarary world. 

Living in the ghetto has a lot of benefits, getting called beautiful 5 times in 3 blocks, being able to cook paella for 10 for under $50, liquors stores open past 10pm on weeknights, and getting a vegetable juice at 3am.

"Some people live to eat, I live to eat pizza" - Pauli Gee.

In celebration of American Independence Day, Guest Blogger Karina brings us a review about an American icon, the pizza.

Usually festivals are associated with dancing, drinking, eating occassionally, music, friends and generally lots of movements and being active, with minimal focus on food. The first Googa Mooga festival, held in NYC's Prospect Park on Saturday and Sunday, was exactly the opposite. A festival with 120% focus on the food and -20% on movement.

If ‘chocolate factory’ conjures up images of Wonka’s waterfall then you aren’t far off the truth – the pouring and whirling of chocolate is a key part of the process. I discovered this recently, when I was lucky to visit the Mast Brothers testing room and factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Sunday's are the best day of the week to spend all morning flicking through cookbooks and food magazines and all afternoon pottering about it in the kitchen preparing the feast for that night.