This comes from a cookbook called Lean Bean Cuisine by Jay Soloman. My mom’s best friend, Valerie, gave it to me years ago, and I still reference it to find new and exciting ways to cook different kinds of beans. Adzuki beans are definitely one of my favourites. They are the sweetest of beans. If…
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Pressure Steamed Vegetables with Ume Plum Vinegar
When I was growing up on Maui I liked the food article in the Maui News by Bonnie Mandoe. I remember clipping out and trying her recipes for potato pancakes and a delicious chicken stir fry with peppers, green olives and fresh Maui fruit. She moved to the mainland when I was in high-school and published…
Sticky Toffee Pudding (traditional and gluten-free)
Sticky toffee pudding is a not too sweet date cake with a very sweet and sticky toffee sauce. It is a classic British desert and is one of the reasons that I love English food. Thats right, I love English food. I like puddings and trifles and shepherd’s pie and sausage roles and bangers and…
Cranberry Brisket with Parsnip & Carrot Latkes and Spiced Cabbage
My Cranberry Brisket is adapted from Sheila Lukins recipe for Shaker Cranberry Brisket in her USA cookbook. I have added wine to the recipe and I am pretty sure that Shakers don’t drink so…… I also skip the cloves and add five spice powder instead. Either one is good. Brisket is a tough but flavourful…
Boston-Style Steamed Brown Bread & Baked Beans
This week, I present two very different cooking styles than what I’m used to. I made a happy experiment of cooking traditional Bostonian food last weekend. That’s baked beans with steamed brown bread. The bread is cooked in old coffee cans, sealed and steamed in a big pot. The beans were what started this whole…
Long Cooked Broccoli
So this is yet another amazing recipe from Chez Panisse Vegetables. I was taught that broccoli was supposed to be eaten barely cooked, so that it is still bright green, sweet and nutty. Broccoli is delicious lightly steamed. I am pretty sure that I tried this recipe initially out of curiosity. Long cooked broccoli…
Curried Turkey Pot Pie (Gluten-free or not)
Some years I entertain the idea of skipping Thanksgiving Turkey. As I have mentioned before, the process of roasting turkeys stresses me out. However, I am very attached to making this dish out of the leftover meat, so I make the turkey. Sometimes I even make a turkey for Christmas or New Years so that…
Thanksgiving Entrées for Herbivores and Carnivores
WILD MUSHROOM COBBLER This is a vegetarian entrée from The New Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas (more info under the cook book tab). It is supposed to serve 6-8 but I double the recipe for 8 people because everyone loves this and goes for seconds and I don’t mind having some leftovers at all. I have sadly…
Erin’s Thanksgiving Menu
We just had Thanksgiving here in the States. I love Thanksgiving with all of my little heart. It celebrates two things that I feel strongly about- Thankfulness and Harvest. It is a particulary sweet holiday in New York. So many of us who live here are far, far away from our families. The most time…
Caldo Verde
This is another recipe from Chez Panisse Vegetables. By the way, Silvi and I have started listing our favourite cookbooks under the cookbooks tab above. It will take me a while to finish mine….I have MANY, MANY cookbooks. Anyway, this soup is ridiculously simple and good for you. It is of Portuguese origin. Caldo Verde…
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