I’ve been taking this permaculture class once a month. What that means is I’ve been talking with other people who are interested in strange, interesting and unexpected food plants. So we geek out. I just cooked a dish with a plant that I grew up with. I used to play with these all the time…
Juice #1!
Hey y’all. Just a quick update to tell you about the first juice I made with my new juicer. I have some longer entries in the works though… Yea we’re back! I drank this juice, my eyes opened and I finally felt awake after a groggy morning. Ingredients: 4 apples, quartered 4 carrots 1 stick…
Experimental Economical Vegetable Stock
I have really gotten into making vegetable stock using this new method. It is the most economical thing you can make if you cook with vegetables and enjoy soup. The trick is this: you save the discard bits of the vegetables you chop up and use in other dishes. These can be saved over time…
Improvise Stir Fry!
You know, everyone who I consider my tribe here in Vancouver–and I’m talkin’ my extended circle of friends and acquaintances–make stir fries. It’s my regional cuisine, and it’s a way of life. Why is this? The deep-rooted Chinese influence on the city? The chronically lingering hippy culture? Maybe it’s the fact that stir fries are…
Slow Oven-Roasted Tomatoes
I know that tomatoes are no good in New York at this time of year. I know this. But I sometimes order my groceries from a delivery service that gives “Good right now!” recommendations on their website. They said that their beefsteak tomatoes were “good right now!” and I foolishly believed them. I also saw…
Gluten-Free Quiche
My mother has a lot of friends who are boat people. People who built their wooden boat by hand or restored an old fishing boat or catamaran before sailing it to New Zealand, or Fiji or Hawaii. She married one of them when I was nine (my dad John Berry). I wholeheartedly approved of the…
Tomato and Cream Cheese Omelet
Once upon a time, my friends Alex and Katherine took me to a diner in Portland, Maine for an excellent Tomato Omelet. When I crave that omelet, this is what I make. Of course there are all kinds of delicious omelet fillings! I will list some suggestions in the recipe. The hash browns pictured here…
Cornmeal Custard Topped Spoon Bread (Gluten-Free)
A while back I posted a cornmeal custard topped spoon bread recipe. My first gluten-free version didn’t work, so I just posted the original. This gluten-free version worked out nicely and it is not any harder to make it this way than the original. It maintains all of the recipe’s magical qualities….You just throw everything…
Better gluten-free popovers
I posted a recipe for gluten-free popovers in the post A Menu in Honour of Broccoli Soup. I’ve been experimenting, and I think that this recipe is better. It uses Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free flour mix (Garbanzo, fava bean, tapioca and sourghum flours with potato starch) instead of the rice, tapioca and potato mix…
Jain Coriander-Scented Millet and Mung Bean Pilaf with Homemade Ghee
Otherwise known as Ahmadabad Jain Pullao, this wonderful recipe comes from Julie Sahni’s Classic Indian and Vegetarian Grain Cooking. I’ve been delving into this book lately, and finding that Indian cooking has a lot to do with different dairy preparation techniques. Yogurt is a complete main-stay, as is ghee…. USLI GHEE To make 3/4 cup…
Big Sis Little Dish 