I have really gotten into making vegetable stock using this new method. It is the most economical thing you can make if you cook with vegetables and enjoy soup. The trick is this: you save the discard bits of the vegetables you chop up and use in other dishes. These can be saved over time…
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Improvise Stir Fry!
You know, everyone who I consider my tribe here in Vancouver–and I’m talkin’ my extended circle of friends and acquaintances–make stir fries. It’s my regional cuisine, and it’s a way of life. Why is this? The deep-rooted Chinese influence on the city? The chronically lingering hippy culture? Maybe it’s the fact that stir fries are…
Slow Oven-Roasted Tomatoes
I know that tomatoes are no good in New York at this time of year. I know this. But I sometimes order my groceries from a delivery service that gives “Good right now!” recommendations on their website. They said that their beefsteak tomatoes were “good right now!” and I foolishly believed them. I also saw…
Tomato and Cream Cheese Omelet
Once upon a time, my friends Alex and Katherine took me to a diner in Portland, Maine for an excellent Tomato Omelet. When I crave that omelet, this is what I make. Of course there are all kinds of delicious omelet fillings! I will list some suggestions in the recipe. The hash browns pictured here…
Cornmeal Custard Topped Spoon Bread (Gluten-Free)
A while back I posted a cornmeal custard topped spoon bread recipe. My first gluten-free version didn’t work, so I just posted the original. This gluten-free version worked out nicely and it is not any harder to make it this way than the original. It maintains all of the recipe’s magical qualities….You just throw everything…
Excellent Potato Pancakes (gluten-free)
I am not sure if my potato pancakes are Rosti or Latkes or Hash browns but they are truly excellent. The ingredients and technique for making these pancakes are simple. The secret is in the tools….An old fashioned coarse grater called The Wonder Shredder and a well seasoned, wide cast iron skillet. I got my Wonder Shredder…
Carrot Soup with Fennel and Fresh Thyme with Biscuits (Traditional and Gluten-Free)
It is strange that I had not made this carrot soup yet this year. I usually make it every other week or so during the Autumn and Winter. It is easy to make, totally satisfying and uses ingredients that I always seem to have on hand. I got this soup from a cooking magazine (maybe…
Perfectly Seasoned Creamy Cauliflower Soup (with no cream)
Today, Chris and I ate cauliflower soup and a pear, blue cheese, hazelnut salad (see Salads with Pears on this blog). It was a good wintry meal…lots of white and green. I am not always a fan of cauliflower. I like it in Indian food and I like this soup. I can’t really remember where…
Hot Borscht and all of the good feelings that come with it
My borscht recipe is adapted from one of the Moosewood cookbooks that I learned to cook from in college. I did a lot of cooking during that time…..enough to occasionally wonder if I should have been at culinary school rather than at Sarah Lawrence College. At Sarah Lawrence I had an amazing academic don named…
Cornmeal Custard Topped Spoon Bread
This is a magical recipe from the New Joy of Cooking. You throw a bunch of things in baking pan with very little care and when it comes out of the oven it is a delicious corn spoon bread with a layer of custard on top. Magic! I tried to make a gluten-free version recently…
Big Sis Little Dish 