This soup was originally called Squash Panade with Red Wine and it is from Chez Panisse Vegetables (one of my favourite cookbooks). It is basically a french onion soup. Deana Acheson re-named it duck fat soup after a particularly good dinner party many years ago. I only make this dish once a year because it…
Menu for My Father’s Wake
Our father Hank passed away just before Halloween this year. He died in the evening, with family watching over him, and afterward we went back to the home of my mother and I for a wake. This is all simple & comforting food, easy to make and easy to eat. The colours are also really…
Smokey Pumpkin Soup and Potato Pizza with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese (Gluten-free)
This is my favourite pumpkin soup. Its based on a Northwest Coast Cookbook that I don’t own anymore and I can’t remember its title. With the exception of the exact amount of liquid smoke… this soup is not an exact science. Feel free to improvise and make substitutions. I have a vague memory of the…
Vanilla Glaze Beets
I cooked! Finally. Pictured is a little late-night grub version. It’s baked spaghetti squash with these delicious little beets on top, and BBQ marinated tofu on the side. I’m gonna talk about the beets. These beets were baked, wrapped in tin foil on a baking dish at 350 degrees until pierceable but not mushy. The…
Honey Mustard Fried Chicken, Alex’s Brussel Sprouts and Yams
This chicken recipe was inspired by a fried rabbit recipe that I tried once. I love rabbit but I did not like it fried. The batter was super though and I decided that it would be good for chicken. I use this delicious sharp honey mustard called Honeycup that comes in an octagon shaped jar….
apple-BUTTER-nut Squash soup
Chris and I just got back from visiting his parents in Tennessee. The Greens hike and bike and are fastidiously careful about how they eat. They eat not much meat, no real butter, no whole eggs, and only skimmed milk products. It seems to be working out for them because they are fit, healthy, beautiful…
Groundnut and Greens Palaver with Black-Eyes
It’s the first day of autumn here on the west coast, and it’s raining, it’s cold, and I’m sick & busy. I froze some of this soup last spring during a more leisurely spell, and ingesting it is improving the quality of my life manifold. This stew is hot, rich, spicy, and packed with everything…
Charmed Late-Summer Vegetables
This dish came out of a culinary experiment on an overcast day. It uses the ingredients that I had on hand from my garden, or out of the back of my fridge. Some of the charm came from discovering these small, almost translucent pale yellow tomatoes in my garden that I had never noticed before….
The many virtues of home-made chicken stock
This is the beginning of chicken stock making season for me. In truth, it is more satisfying to make chicken stock when the weather gets a bit colder, but I am underemployed in the early fall and too busy to make chicken stock in the winter when I need it for soups and holiday dishes….
Spicy Chickpea Pancakes (with green salad)
I eat this a lot. Really. When I am working, it is a rare week that I don’t eat this at least once. It is very easy, cheap, healthful and delicious. The recipe for Chick-Pea Crepes with Ginger and Hot Chilies is from Classic Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Julie Sahni. My friend Gayathri was impressed…
Big Sis Little Dish 