Do you like cooking for other people? Personally it’s one of my main motivations for cooking creative food, making it nourishing and preparing food in general. This week we finally started doing something at work that we’d all been intending for ages: cooking a staff lunch to share. I made a goal to start after…
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Ieva’s Greek Salad
When I was 12, I went to spend a summer in Vancouver with my biological father Hank and his fabulous wife Ieva. I admired that Ieva was so well read and educated. I admired her wit and sense of humour. I admired that she had travelled the world and lived abroad. I admired…
Cobb Salad
You may have noticed that I post a lot recipes for main course salads. This is because most days, I pack a very large salad for lunch. I am someone who requires rather a lot of food. I work with small children and I expend a lot of energy. I don’t eat gluten so I…
Gluten-Free Cherry Clafouti
Clafouti is a baked fruit custard. It is a French dish that (I feel) was invented by particularly unfussy and homey French people. I love clafouti because it reminds me of a delicious custardy apple cake that my Estonian grandmother used make. She would slice and layer apples into a baking pan and then…
2 Kinds of Gluten-Free Pancakes and Caramelized Fruit Topping
First of all my sister already posted a really delicious recipe for gluten-free lemon ginger pancakes a while back, which you all should try. I cannot take any credit for the two pancake recipes posted here. They are from the back of Bob’s Red Mill Amaranth Flour and Coconut Flour packages respectively (with a…
Salad with Trout, Apples, Pecans and Manchego
Many years ago, I went on a fabulous, week-long canoe trip to the boundary waters. Nothing went wrong on the entire trip. We had good weather, there were no bugs, no one got hurt, we didn’t run out of food, the lakes were stunningly beautiful On our way back to Minneapolis, we stopped at the…
How to Roast Asparagus in Under 10 minutes
You know, I am pretty sure that I had never tasted or even heard of asparagus until I came to the east coast to go to college. When I did finally try it, I found it delicious but entirely unaffordable. I find good prices on asparagus all the time now, which makes me very happy!…
My Mother’s Amazing Crab Dip
When I was nine, my mother and I moved to from Canada to a small historic town in Hawaii called Lahaina. Lahaina had been a pleasure port for visitors since it’s days as a whaling ship port. We lived at the hotel where my new step dad was the on call handyman, so we…
Quinoa with Wild Plantain, Dandelion and Peppers
I’ve been taking this permaculture class once a month. What that means is I’ve been talking with other people who are interested in strange, interesting and unexpected food plants. So we geek out. I just cooked a dish with a plant that I grew up with. I used to play with these all the time…
Juice #1!
Hey y’all. Just a quick update to tell you about the first juice I made with my new juicer. I have some longer entries in the works though… Yea we’re back! I drank this juice, my eyes opened and I finally felt awake after a groggy morning. Ingredients: 4 apples, quartered 4 carrots 1 stick…
Big Sis Little Dish 