I am always looking for tasty, healthy dishes to make for my husband’s family during the holidays. They are very conscious of their fat and cholesterol intake and as a result they are very fit and healthy people.
Tag: dinner
Quinoa, Fennel and Pomegranate Salad
I found a recipe that I am super inspired by. It’s by Yotam Ottolenghi, published in this month’s issue of Bon Appetit magazine. Yotam is an Israeli-born chef who is renowned for his treatment of vegetables.
Christmas Salad with Figs Marinated in Spiced Wine, Blue Cheese and Toasted Walnuts
I know that everyone is busy, but I would love to hear about your Christmas dinners past or present. I’ll start. I have been thinking about my Estonian grandmother’s Christmas dinners, which happened late in the evening on Christmas Eve. The funny thing is that I can only remember my favourite and my least favourite…
Butternut Squash and Sage Pizza…or a Gluten-Free Squash and Sage Gratin
I’m going to state this up front. This pizza is fancy, and it deserves a better pizza crust than what I have to offer. I have made gluten-free pizza crust from scratch and it was not much better than the gluten-free mix, so I just use the mix when I want a pizza. The mix…
The Lure of Pineapple and Ham Pizza (Gluten-Free)
I moved from British Columbia, Cananda to Maui, Hawaii half way through my fourth grade year. I could go on and on about all of the culture shock that I experienced, but I am going to focus today on public school lunch. In the schools that I attended in Canada, there was no school lunch….
Layered Wild Mushroom Blini Casserole (Gluten-Free)
I moved to New York from Maui when I was 18 years old. I had never even been to the East coast to visit. I had a scholarship to attend college at a school just outside of the city, so I just moved here. For the first many years that you live in New…
Moroccan Carrot Salad
At this time of year I can get my favourite carrots. They’re grown in Lillooet and are amazingly sweet and delicious. The only carrots I’ve had with more flavour were from my own garden. When I worked in a produce department we used to sell out of them constantly, so I know that I’m not…
Sweet Herb Stew
Typically when improvising I play with a lot of hot flavours. I love Chinese and Indian cooking and draw liberally from their spice palette. But the other day I felt like making something not spicy. Go figure. Cuisine wise, I generalize more when I’m thinking about European cooking. For instance, I think of the herbs…
Chicken and Dumplings (gluten-free and traditional)
This is one of the most ridiculously simple and comforting foods in the world. I learned to make chicken and dumplings from a copy of The New England Cookbook by Brooke Dojny which my friend Katherine gave me as a gift many years ago. Katherine has taught me about all things good, comforting and delicious…
Ideas for Thanksgiving Dinner
Last year, I posted all of my Thanksgiving recipes the week after the holiday. I realized that this was not very helpful. Here are links to all of the recipes that we have posted that would be great for a Thanksgiving meal. Next year, maybe we will get it together to do this for Canadian…
Big Sis Little Dish 