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…
Tag: magical
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…
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…
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…
Pressure Steamed Vegetables with Ume Plum Vinegar
When I was growing up on Maui I liked the food article in the Maui News by Bonnie Mandoe. I remember clipping out and trying her recipes for potato pancakes and a delicious chicken stir fry with peppers, green olives and fresh Maui fruit. She moved to the mainland when I was in high-school and published…
Caldo Verde
This is another recipe from Chez Panisse Vegetables. By the way, Silvi and I have started listing our favourite cookbooks under the cookbooks tab above. It will take me a while to finish mine….I have MANY, MANY cookbooks. Anyway, this soup is ridiculously simple and good for you. It is of Portuguese origin. Caldo Verde…
Menu for My Father’s Wake
Our father Hank passed away just before Halloween this year. He died in the evening, with family watching over him, and afterward we went back to the home of my mother and I for a wake. This is all simple & comforting food, easy to make and easy to eat. The colours are also really…
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….
Big Sis Little Dish 