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…
Cabbage Slaw with Mango, Peanuts, Mint and Pungent Lime Dressing
A couple of summers back, we spent a glamourous weekend celebrating a friend’s birthday at a farm-house in the Catskills. Everyone in this particular circle of friends happens to cook amazing food. There was fresh-baked bread, Tomato Pie, chickpea and butternut squash salad with tahini dressing, fava bean salad, smoked salmon hash with fresh herbs…
Butter, Garlic and Ginger Laced Pureed Mustard Greens served with Radish Corn Bread
I used to make this a lot. I made it so much that I had to take a decade long break from making it, but now I am ready to eat it again! According to my favourite Indian cookbook, Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking, this is the “soul food” of the Punjabi Sikhs. It…
Roasted Potatoes and Fennel with Za’atar
Every year around my birthday I go out for dinner at one of my favourite restaurants, The Kebab Cafe, in Astoria Queens. I don’t really eat out much, because it interferes with my desires to spend all of my time cooking in my own kitchen, but eating at the Kebab cafe is deeply satisfying to…
Big Sis Little Dish 