I originally published this salad recipe on August 8th, 2010. It was the seventh recipe we posted! The original blog post said “One morning, Silvi and I ate this salad for breakfast and then rode our bike’s from Queens to Coney Island.” I have not riden my bike to Coney Island in a long time, but I still like to make this salad for breakfast when I need to feel fortified and hydrated for a long NYC summer day.
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Recipes from Silvi
Pro snacking for lazy yet well-intentioned students
I’m studying biology right now (well I was until taking a break to write this blog post) and snacking on a delicious hummus and yam sandwich. Truth is I have a better diet when I’m sharing meals with others. When it’s just for me I find the best trick is to stock my fridge and…
Simple Curried Quinoa with a Crunchy Kale and Coconut Topping
I tend to be skeptical about health food. Spending my childhood in the Pacific Northwest and in Hawaii, I was always around glowingly healthy hippies who claimed that some ridiculously healthy thing they had taken to eating was “delicious”. You can’t fool children, and there are only so many times you can feed them sprouts…
Week 2 at Ranfurly Farm: Potatoes, Irrigation, Etc.!
Wow, what a busy week here at the farm! We transplanted about two rows of onions and shallots. Maybe that doesn’t sound like a lot to you but the rows are about 150′ long and 4′ wide so that is hundreds and hundreds of plants. Also this week we planted potatoes! This is a pretty…
Laying Hens and Herbal Teas
I am working at a farm this summer and fall! This is something I’ve been wanting to do for going on 10 years now, ever since I travelled down the west coast on a bike tour meeting farmers and other people who care about agriculture. Yep, so finally it’s happening. I just finished my first…
Tuna-Dill Tomato Sauce
I’m really happy with this sauce. I have consumed immense quantities of tomato sauce in my life but it’s not something that I’ve ever gotten into making. That just means I have opinions about the subject and know what the good stuff looks like when I see it. Cockiness aside, this is a really flexible…
All Salmon, All TheTime Ieva’s Salmon/ Ground Cherry and Almond Sauce
My recent trip to British Columbia was all about Salmon. I ate a lot of Salmon. We did not eat salmon EVERY day…but on the days that we were not eating salmon, we were talking about eating salmon. On Gabriola Island, we were eating a lot of pink salmon, which seemed to be the…
Snack Time on the Island of Cats
I am home now, but my sister and I recently spent the last two weeks of our month-long trip to Estonia on the island of Kassari (the island of cats). There will be some talk of snacking and foraging at the very end, but first some stories about our travels! Kassari is actually…
Travelers Potato, Leek, Gouda Soup (For a rainy day in Tallinn)
In mid-June, my sister and I spent six days in Tallinn, which is the largest and oldest city in Estonia. Tallinn offers an excellent balance between modern and medieval. If you want to travel to Europe to see traces of VERY old culture and architecture and you want to travel to a place that is…
Traveling Fools
I am not usually a big maker of puns but even I could not resist. I am going to give you a “recipe” for a strawberry rhubarb fool and my sister and I are traveling in Estonia right now…so traveling fool. Okay I’ll stop… Last week, I was attending a Nordic-Celtic-Baltic Folklorist’s conference at University…
Big Sis Little Dish 