It’s the first day of autumn here on the west coast, and it’s raining, it’s cold, and I’m sick & busy. I froze some of this soup last spring during a more leisurely spell, and ingesting it is improving the quality of my life manifold. This stew is hot, rich, spicy, and packed with everything…
Tag: gluten-free
Charmed Late-Summer Vegetables
This dish came out of a culinary experiment on an overcast day. It uses the ingredients that I had on hand from my garden, or out of the back of my fridge. Some of the charm came from discovering these small, almost translucent pale yellow tomatoes in my garden that I had never noticed before….
The many virtues of home-made chicken stock
This is the beginning of chicken stock making season for me. In truth, it is more satisfying to make chicken stock when the weather gets a bit colder, but I am underemployed in the early fall and too busy to make chicken stock in the winter when I need it for soups and holiday dishes….
Spicy Chickpea Pancakes (with green salad)
I eat this a lot. Really. When I am working, it is a rare week that I don’t eat this at least once. It is very easy, cheap, healthful and delicious. The recipe for Chick-Pea Crepes with Ginger and Hot Chilies is from Classic Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Julie Sahni. My friend Gayathri was impressed…
Blackberry, Lemon, Ginger Tea Cake (gluten free)
Last Christmas, my mother and I made an apple cinnamon cake recipe from the Baby Cakes cookbook. That’s a really outstanding source of recipes for wheat and dairy free baking, for those of you who need that kind of thing. I cannot eat gluten, which is a particularly annoying for someone who likes to bake…
Spicy Broiled Shrimp (my dad’s favourite)
When I was in high-school my mother worked at Walden Books. She would buy me books from the sale table with her discount. She was very attuned to my interests so she brought home big coffee table art books and cook books. One of these was a giant British volume on Asian cookery. I was…
Fancy Salad for a Rugged Situation (Greens with Roasted Figs, Asparagus, Mint and Manchego)
Last week I was building puppets outside in Fort Worth Texas in over 100 degree weather. We do a big food shop at the beginning of the project to stretch our per diem and allow for eating mexican food and margaritas at Benito’s once the show is up and running. We are not as frugal…
Ride Your Bike to Coney Island Salad
The salad was inspired by one that I ate at Diner in Williamsburg one early afternoon while rather hung over. It made me feel better. I started making it a lot. One morning, Silvi and I ate this salad for breakfast once and then rode our bike’s from Queens to Coney Island. For those…
Macaroni and Cheese
I went through a macaroni and cheese phase when I was in Junior high. I ate a lot of kraft macaroni and cheese with bottled tomato sauce (very classy). I have been going through another macaroni and cheese phase. When I have small amounts of yummy things leftover I throw them into a macaroni and…
Quinoa-Amaranth Sushi
This is a recipe for sushi without rice. I grew up in Vancouver eating sushi my whole life. I think this is the sushi capitol of North America (the California roll was invented here by Tojo- Hello!). This recipe came about last year when I was cooking with amaranth for the first time. (Amaranth is…
Big Sis Little Dish 