Last year, I signed up for a winter farmshare with my local CSA. The summer farmshare rocks my world. The winter farmshare was pretty great too. Of course, I live in New York, so local food in the winter means LOTS of root vegetables, onions, leeks or garlic, winter squashes, winter greens and cauliflower. My…
Author: Big Sis Little Dish
This is a blog run by two sisters. Erin is the big sister who lives in New York, and Silvi is the little sister who lives in Vancouver. They both love to cook! They created this blog to share and store recipes for the food they make.
Crispy Seeded Amaranth and Onion Fritters with Charred Pepper and Tomato Sauce
I’ve had a very sad few weeks. I can’t really see my way clear to write a chipper or heartfelt story of any kind, but I can share with you an excellent recipe that I made. I was trying to make onion rings, but they turned into fritters. This is basically junk food, although it…
Ideas for Canadian Thanksgiving (2015)
My mother reminded me that my Canadian family are planning their Thanksgiving feast right now! So, here is this year’s updated list of Thanksgiving recipes that can be found on this blog. All of the recipes include directions for both gluten-free and gluten-full preparations (unless one or the other is specified). You can click on the…
The Freight/ Tried and True Recipes for Large Harvest Gatherings
In August, I had the pleasure of cooking for a group of twenty or so artists at The Freight, an artist’s residency run by photographer, aerialist and puppeteer extraordinaire, Rachael Shane. For the last six years, Rachael has invited artists to spend a week in a beautiful house built by her architect father and potter…
Tomato Soup with Smoked Paprika
I started imagining this soup in the late winter, when good tomatoes and the time to cook seemed like a distant and impossible fantasy. I just scribbled out the basic idea and waited for August to come. It was worth the wait. My mother and I made this soup from amazing local tomatoes grown by…
Oil Poached Halibut with Green Fennel Seeds and Dry Apple Cider
Before I went to Gabriola Island this August, I visited my sister in Vancouver. She lives in a beautiful neighborhood where many elderly Greek people have been lovingly tending to their gardens for thirty or more years. She also lives near the beach. We were walking to the beach, admiring all of the gardens and…
Blackberry Curd
The drought in British Colombia made the blackberries more scarce than usual this summer. In response to the lack of berries I came up with a really good blackberry picking innovation. I have a leather jacket that I have owned since I was 18. I was trying it on for fun and the salesman thought…
Blackberry Lime Cashew Cream Tart with a Ginger Crust (Gluten-Free and Vegan)/ My sister’s birthday
I know. I JUST posted a birthday blackberry dessert. That’s because August is all about blackberries and Leo birthdays. I have a lot of Leos in my life. I could probably do a birthday post every other day if I had time to make desserts for all of my Leo friends and family. My mother, my…
Blackberry Apple Tart in a Salted Almond Crust (Gluten-Free and Vegan)/ My mum’s birthday
I spend as much of my August as I can on Gabriola Island in British Colombia, Canada. My mum is now retired and lives their full time in the house that my dad built for her. We spend much of our time swimming int he ocean, walking through the forest and picking blackberries. So, prepare…
Run a Luncheonette Cooking Camp with Brooklyn Apple Academy
Right before I left on vacation, I had the pleasure of co-teaching a cooking camp for kids at the Sunview Luncheonette in Greenpoint Brooklyn. The Sunview is an old, classic Luncheonette turned social club and microvenue for art, poetics, regionalism, mutual aid, and commoning. Members of the Sunview can hold community events, such as teaching seven…
