I used to make tomato pie from More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin, which (along with Home Cooking) is one of my favourite books. Tomato Pie the epitome of summer comfort food…tomatoes baked with cheese, herbs and a bit of home-made mayonaisse in the most delicious biscuit crust. I tweaked the recipe over the years to…
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Travelers Potato, Leek, Gouda Soup (For a rainy day in Tallinn)
In mid-June, my sister and I spent six days in Tallinn, which is the largest and oldest city in Estonia. Tallinn offers an excellent balance between modern and medieval. If you want to travel to Europe to see traces of VERY old culture and architecture and you want to travel to a place that is…
Slacker’s Caramelized Rhubarb Clafouti (gluten-free or not)
I know that the strawberries are finally in season and I should be moving on from the rhubarb. I know that this is my third rhubarb post this month. I know. The truth is that I have a hard time making it to the greenmarket early enough to get the strawberries. By the time I…
The Simplest and Most Decadent Strawberry Dessert
I used to obsessively throw large dinner parties. They were more like indoor picnics since there were usually about 17 guests and a definitely did not own a table large enough to seat everyone. We would spread a big cloth on the living room floor and set it with candles and my grandmother’s china. My…
Strawberry Rhubarb Slump (with gluten-free dumplings)
I have been haunted lately by a vague memory of our Estonian grandmother making stewed fruit (plums I think) with delicious little dumplings and streaks of goat milk. It basically the sweet version of her vegetable soup with goat milk broth and dumplings. I have done a bit of research and I have learned that…
Inspiration from our Mothers
Happy Mother’s Day! To celebrate I thought that I would share a little index of all of the recipes that we have posted on this blog that came from my Mother (Glenda) and my sister’s mother (Ieva). They are both beautiful, intelligent, strong women (Our father had excellent taste) who like their food healthy and…
Buckwheat Pancakes with Sorghum Syrup (Gluten-free)
My grandpa used to make buckwheat pancakes. He would serve them up slathered with butter and Blackstrap Molasses and say “That’ll stick to your ribs”. My grandfather delighted in having grandchildren to fatten up. I have asked around, and no one in my family seems to know exactly how grandpa made his buckwheat pancakes, so…
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies made with Amaranth, Brown Sugar and Sea Salt (Gluten-Free)
This recipe for chewy gluten-free chocolate chip cookies is from the marvelous food blog Cannelle et Vanile and it is so perfect, so delicious I have nothing to offer in the way of personalization or improvement…and I say that as a self-professed crispy chocolate chip cookie loving snob. These cookies are not crispy but they are…
Butter, Garlic and Ginger Laced Pureed Mustard Greens served with Radish Corn Bread
I used to make this a lot. I made it so much that I had to take a decade long break from making it, but now I am ready to eat it again! According to my favourite Indian cookbook, Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking, this is the “soul food” of the Punjabi Sikhs. It…
Shepherd’s Pie with Scalloped Carrots, Celery and Caraway Seeds
I used to make this a lot back in the days when I had time to cook at this time of year. Those days are back again! Of course, when I used to make this in March, the weather was behaving in a more March-like manner. It must be cold enough to make this somewhere…
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