My sister Silvi is visiting me in New York AND I have Spring vacation right now! If you just want a recipe for a dairy free tahini milkshake and do not want to hear about our trip to Coney Island, scroll to the bottom. Silvi arrived really, really early on Tuesday. We napped, ate a…
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.
Tofu Salad with Mint and Toasted Rice Powder
Many of the Thai dishes that I have learned to cook are part of my attempt to recreate restaurant dishes that I like. This recipe is different. It is from a very creative and inspiring cookbook called True Thai, The Modern Art of Thai Cooking by Victor Sodsook. I do not think that I have ever…
Spring Lamb Stew/ Rabbit in Savoury Chocolate Sauce. Happy Easter!
I am the sort of person who has dishes that I like to make every year for holiday meals and Easter is no exception. I like to make Lamb and Bunny. However, the dishes that I like to make with Lamb and Bunny are a bit expensive and very involved, and I have been unable…
A Composed Spring Salad Inspired by Estonian Rosolje and Bird’s Nests
Today I received an Easter message from my mother in law. She wrote- “Life is full of promise! God is with us – and before us! We can choose to act on that!” She also wrote about all of the beautiful early spring plants that are coming up in Tennessee. I thought about her lovely…
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies made with Amaranth, Brown Sugar and Sea Salt (Gluten-Free)
This recipe for chewy gluten-free chocolate chip cookies is from the marvelous food blog Cannelle et Vanile and it is so perfect, so delicious I have nothing to offer in the way of personalization or improvement…and I say that as a self-professed crispy chocolate chip cookie loving snob. These cookies are not crispy but they are…
Chili Cream and Swiss Chard Soup
So we steep chilies in cream at work to make delicious spicy cream. And there was a batch recently that got left to steep for a bit too long. My co-worker Jen was going to throw it out but I said, WAIT! That is delicious spicy cream! It is fatty and spicy and those are…
Green Vegetables in Yellow Bean Garlic Sauce
You may not realize that you have eaten yellow-bean garlic sauce, but if you have ordered long beans or water spinach at a Thai or Vietnamese restaurant in an attempt to counteract the quantity of coconut milk curry and fried spring roles that will be consuming…chances are you have had this sauce. It’s a very…
Arugula and Herb Salad with Dates, Almonds and Sheep Cheese
I recently made this salad for a dinner party and everyone loved it! We liked it so much that we made a second batch of it after we ate the main course. It’s loosely based on a salad in the Plenty cookbook by Ottolenghi. I failed to pick up the turkish sheep cheese that the…
Sweet and Tangy Fruit Chutney
It was bound to happen. What with all the jam, curd and marmalade making, I was bound to start making chutney. I was perfectly content to use store bought mango chutney to top my Spicy Chickpea Pancakes, samosas or pakora….but now I have made my own sweet and tangy fruit chutney, and it kicks the teeth out…
Two Orange Almond Cakes for Passover (gluten-free)
We have been hosting a lot of dinner parties this month. Last week, I made two Orange Almond cakes for our guests. Despite having the same primary flavours, these two cakes were very different from each other. Clearly, I have a thing for the old almond and orange combo in deserts (tangerine marmalade cake and marmalade and…
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