Chris brought me some tiny adorable pears from the Adirondacks. I had an apple that was bruised and beginning to rot. I also had a half full bottle of white wine and an orange. We had guests coming over for dinner. I made this tart. I got the poached pear recipe from Vegetarian Cooking for…
Tag: autumn
Spinach Salad with Fuyu Persimmons, Green Beans,Toasted Almonds and Spiced Vinaigrette
Persimmon is a new fruit to me. They have a short and highly celebrated season in the very late fall and there are two kinds that are available in NYC right now. Fuyu Persimmons are squat and pale orange and are eaten when they are still firm and can be sliced like an apple. Hachiya…
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…
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.
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…
The Return of the Cabbage Craving- Fennel, Apple and Red Cabbage Slaw
I am craving cabbage again. One of the interesting things about writing this food blog is that I have a record of what I was cooking and eating a year ago…
Plum Ricotta Tart with Almonds (Gluten-Free)
Last week I started work at one of my favourite schools which happens to be in the Belmont Neighborhood of the Bronx. It’s a two hour, two subway train and one bus commute from my apartment in Brooklyn.
Garam Masala Baked Chicken with Pickled Plums
I am very, very pleased with this dinner. I have made this chicken recipe a few times before. It’s from a Food and Wine Annual Cookbook (2007) that my mum gave me for Christmas a while back, but I have made a few changes… I use my favourite Garam Masala recipe instead of the one…
Mi-Cuit and Pickled Plums
On our honeymoon, Chris and I bought a bottle of Pickled French Plums in Washington State. We ate them with smoked oysters and aged gouda cheese. The ingredient list was short so I thought that I would try to reproduce them at home. How hard could it be? Well I made something, and it…
Roasted Red Peppers
Chris and I used to go to Bulgaria in the fall. In little villages all of the old ladies would be roasting the last of their pepper harvest on outdoor fires so that they could store them for the winter. It is a very good smell. It makes me want to eat sausages, feta cheese,…
