Tag: Blasphemous Meals

  • Ritual & Revival: Preserving heavy metal, one jar at a time

    Ritual & Revival: Preserving heavy metal, one jar at a time

    Renee Trotier is stirring a pot in the culinary world. In it, she combines freshly picked plums, essence of lavender and drops of gin to create a beautiful deep purple concoction. In a few hours, it will be ready to go with your favourite crackers and cheese, on toast, or with dessert. But don’t forget…

  • Blasphemous Meals #11: Winter’s Wrath

    Blasphemous Meals #11: Winter’s Wrath

    Words and photos by Ola Mazzuca Happy New Year skids! I’m back with the 11th edition of Blasphemous Meals, delving into three dishes that are hotter than hell, perfect for frigid weather and snow-covered, kvlt landscape – straight outta Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook by Annick Giroux, via Bazillion Points. Spin some vinyl,…

  • Blasphemous Meals #10 – Corpus Curry

    Blasphemous Meals #10 – Corpus Curry

    Here I am at the tenth installment of Blasphemous Meals! I am nearly halfway through Bazillion Points’ Hellbent For Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook by Annick Giroux, and it’s been such an incredible journey. My confidence in cooking has grown significantly since I first attempted Proto Metal Lamb Shanks Braised in Burgundy by Warpig’s Dana…

  • The best so far: celebrating five years of Hellbound.ca

    The best so far: celebrating five years of Hellbound.ca

    Hellbound.ca turned 5 years old earlier this month and we’re ready to celebrate! Wow, I sometimes find it hard to imagine that this little webzine that we started oh so long ago is still around, but here we are, a little more than five years later. Hellbound.ca is still here, still turning out great features…

  • Blasphemous Meals #9: Slaughter of the Bowl

    Blasphemous Meals #9: Slaughter of the Bowl

    Photos and words by Ola Mazzuca This entry of Blasphemous Meals . I chose each for their type of protein and method of preparation, which ultimately makes them fitting year round. For our Toronto readers, I hope each evokes a sense of warmth in contrast to long winter we’re having – straight outta Battles in…

  • Blasphemous Meals #8: Canucks a la Cuisine – headbanging over hot plates.

    In this entry of Blasphemous Meals, Ola Mazzuca covers three recipes from the Hellbent For Cooking book (Bazillion Points) that come from here at home in Canada! Three very different options are presented here, two dinners and a desert, from three very different bands that have been a part of the Canadian metal underground over…

  • Blasphemous Meals #7: Into The Frost Of Winter

    Blasphemous Meals #7: Into The Frost Of Winter

    In this entry of Blasphemous Meals, reader discretion is advised to those of you who are vegetarian, vegan and on and on and on. You’ll find six saucy, savoury, satanically delicious dishes that are from three different carnivorous groups: beef, fish, poultry and pork. They are warm and welcoming as you retreat from the frostbitten…

  • Blasphemous Meals #5: Party Hard

    In this entry of Blasphemous Meals, Ola mazzuca covers three recipes from the Hellbent For Cooking book (Bazillion Points) that should not be considered junk food, but fun food that accomodates chill evenings or badass gatherings. Photography by Frank Mazzuca Pair wisely with an imported beer or exquisite wine.

  • Blasphemous Meals #4: Hail The Goatfish

    Now home in Canada and back in school for another year, our favourite university journalism student has recently sent us her fourth installment in her Blasphemous Meals series, where she makes meals for her family taken out of the pages of the Bazillion Points book Hellbent for Cooking. Here are three more inspired meals that…