Big Sis Little Dish

Easiest of the Easy: Lentils Monastery Style with New-style Southern Cornbread

Well…. I’m still struggling with the fact that working in a commercial kitchen; however excellent, fruitful and fulfilling, diminishes my desire for cooking at home. Tonight I’m trying to convince myself that cooking is easy and satisfying by making two of the easiest and yummiest dishes in my repertoire. They are Monastery-style Lentil Soup and…

Pork Chops with Boozy Jam Pan Sauce

This is a quick, simple, adaptable dish that I make it a lot when I get busy. You brown some pork chops and then make a pan sauce with a bit of booze…

Cheap eats- Brazilian Black Bean Soup and Pineapple Mint Salsa

I am a freelance arts educator. I usually spend the September hussling work and start teaching a bit in October. However, I do not get paid for any of my work until sometime in November.

Erin’s Marmalade and Sweet Almond Custard tart (gluten-free)

When I first had to adopt a strict gluten-free diet I was very, very angry. I didn’t have a choice, because I had become so sick, but I was not at all happy about it.

Red Snapper Hash

During college, and for a few years after, I worked for a fashion designer. In general I did not fit in well in the fashion world, partly because I talked to much about food and upset my dieting co-workers.

Gluten-Free Jalapeno Poppers or Isn’t Wrapping it Bacon always the Solution?

It sounds silly, but one of the foods that I really miss since going on a gluten-free diet is the very low-brow and delicious jalapeno popper.

Wild Gabriola Plum Chutney and Gabriola Orchard Plum Marmalade

For our wedding, it was very important to Chris and I that we make gifts for our guests from some sort of local Gabriola Island fruit. I had imagined blackberry jam, but the blackberries were not ripe…

Vegetable Korma and Biriyani

The biriyani that we made for our wedding welcome dinner involved two major steps. First, you make the vegetable korma, which elevates humble vegetables by braising them in an elegant cardamom nut sauce.

Heroic Indian Rice Pudding (Kheer)

We served this rice pudding as for desert at our Indian welcome dinner the night before our wedding. When I was planning the menu I tried to pick recipes that would not be too crazy to make in large quantities.