I made this soup a few weeks ago when the leaves first started changing and I choose ingredients mostly because of their autumnal colors. It is not typical for me to make food with aesthetics as my primary motivation. Luckily though, the soup turned out to be tasty, as well as visually pleasing! The temperature in…
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Goat Cheese and Autumn Vegetable Tart with a Gluten-Free Poppy Seed Crust
I make this tart a lot. It like to serve it to guests with a Spicy Beet Salad with Horseradish and maybe some duck pate and radishes. I like to take the leftovers to work for lunch the next day. I also like to eat this tart with a cup tea for breakfast. Like all…
Paprika Hendl/ Happy Halloween!
I am not that great at celebrating Halloween. Truthfully, I dress up every day…or at least every day that I go into public. Also, I earn my living making masks (and puppets) for and with small children. So it is hard for me to get especially worked up about Halloween. I usually end up cooking…
Sockeye Salmon with Blackberries and Leeks
It’s salmon and blackberry season and I am visiting my mother on Gabriola Island. We are picking buckets of blackberries every few days, so I apologize in for the flood of blackberry recipes, but that is what we are eating. This salmon recipe is very easy and very good. The fish is tender and luscious…
Slow Roasted Salmon with Citrus, Fennel and Green Olives
I fell in love with a photo of this dish that I saw on Pinterest. The photo filled me with an instant and overwhelming salmon craving. I made it once according to the directions in Bon Appétit . I usually cook salmon quickly on high heat À la Ieva or Marinated in Spiced Yogurt with Rhubarb Chutney. This…
Simple Curried Quinoa with a Crunchy Kale and Coconut Topping
I tend to be skeptical about health food. Spending my childhood in the Pacific Northwest and in Hawaii, I was always around glowingly healthy hippies who claimed that some ridiculously healthy thing they had taken to eating was “delicious”. You can’t fool children, and there are only so many times you can feed them sprouts…
Crispy Horseradish Gnocchi with Beet Greens, Goat Cheese and Pancetta (Gluten-Free)
I make ricotta gnocchi fairly frequently. I make big batches of them and freeze them in single serving bags. That way when I want a fast meal, I can boil the gnocchi and toss them with some greens and goat cheese for dinner. I was recently inspired by a crispy horseradish gnocchi recipe at the Lemon…
Saag “Paneer” (vegan)
My husband’s maternal grandparents raised their family in India. Chris’ grandfather ran an international boarding school in his capacity as a United Methodist Minister. Chris’ mother and all of his aunts and uncles grew up playing in the foothills of the Himalayas and attending the Woodstock School. It is easy to see how this experience…
Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Chorizo/ A story about my cat
My wonderful cat Hazel loves Brussel sprouts. He likes to chew on green things, and I am happy to provide him with anything that will keep him away from my begonias. Brussel sprouts are not only tasty to Hazel, they are also ball shaped, which means that they can be chased around the kitchen floor…
Cornbread Stuffing with Sage and Cherries (gluten-free)
I grew up eating a classic bread, onion, celery, sage and apple stuffing. I have learned to love cornbread stuffing since becoming gluten-free and changing the base of the stuffing seems to have opened the floodgates of experimentation. I have been fickle about stuffings for the last few years. I have been playing the field…
Big Sis Little Dish 