This is going to be about roasting ducks, but if you want my thoughts about goose preparation, they can be found here. I am good at roasting duck.
Tag: home-made pantry item
Myrtle Berry Citrus Sauce
I am a lover of discovering new and bizarre produce. Part of it is my fascination with plants: the way they grow, the forms they take on. To me it is miraculous.
Quarante Quatre Home-made Liqueur
I can’t remember how this conversation started. I suspect it was October when Rachel told us about the Quarante Quatre. It looks funny to type those words. When you say it as an Anglophone it sounds more like “Care Aunt Cat,” where aunt is pronounced in that British sort of way that sounds like you’re…
Christmas Gifts
I have been lame about giving gifts for the last many years. It is easy for me to look to look at the bizarre consumerism of Christmas and just disconnect from the whole process. Truthfully though, I love giving gifts! I also love my stuff, my objects, the gifts that people have given me. My…
Sweet and Sour Honey Pickled Beets
I think of pickled beets as being very Canadian. I moved to the States when I was 9 years old, and I can remember being REALLY excited about eating home-made pickled beets when we came back to Canada to visit family. In my family, if you are having guests or extended family for dinner…
Wild Gabriola Plum Chutney and Gabriola Orchard Plum Marmalade
For our wedding, it was very important to Chris and I that we make gifts for our guests from some sort of local Gabriola Island fruit. I had imagined blackberry jam, but the blackberries were not ripe…
Mi-Cuit and Pickled Plums
On our honeymoon, Chris and I bought a bottle of Pickled French Plums in Washington State. We ate them with smoked oysters and aged gouda cheese. The ingredient list was short so I thought that I would try to reproduce them at home. How hard could it be? Well I made something, and it…
Garam Masala (two kinds)
Garam Masala is a spice blend used in Indian cooking. It’s usually added at the end of cooking as the final seasoning. You can buy it at the store but it really does taste better if you make your own fresh. Even if you take a whole year to use your homemade garam masala up,…
Roasted Red Peppers
Chris and I used to go to Bulgaria in the fall. In little villages all of the old ladies would be roasting the last of their pepper harvest on outdoor fires so that they could store them for the winter. It is a very good smell. It makes me want to eat sausages, feta cheese,…
Not Too Sweet Blackberry Jam
Because of a wet and cold summer, the blackberries on Gabriola Island were late this year. We had expected to pick gallons and gallons of them in the weeks leading up to the wedding. Our plan was to make blackberry jam for our guests and also for the filling of the gluten-free lemon blackberry wedding…
Big Sis Little Dish 