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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…

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…

Salad Rolls

When I was a pre-teen visiting my family in Vancouver, I liked to visit the food at Granville Island. This goes to show that my idea of a good time has not changed all that much in 25 years. I still go to look at food markets in whatever city I visit. ANYWAY at twelve…

Gluten-Free Quiche

My mother has a lot of friends who are boat people. People who built their wooden boat by hand or restored an old fishing boat or catamaran before sailing it to New Zealand, or Fiji or Hawaii. She married one of them when I was nine (my dad John Berry). I wholeheartedly approved of the…

Smoked Salmon Hash with Fresh Herbs

Many years ago my family made a cookbook for our family reunion. Everyone in our family cooks so it was a pretty great little cookbook. This was the recipe from my cousin Gary and his wife Constance. They are seriously fantastic cooks and fabulous people in general. They recommended this dish as a Christmas morning brunch….

Asian Coleslaw

Silvi and I cooked a massive amount of food for our Father’s memorial. Here are the foods that I associate with Hank- Apple pancakes and fritters, espresso, greasy fried chinese meat and noodle dishes, big piles of salad bar salad, black currents, blueberries and chinotto. For the memorial, Silvi made really great Vegetable Quiche…

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…

Salad for a Heat Wave

It been over 90 degrees 6 out of 7 days a week for a month and a half here in NYC. Sometimes watermelon is the only thing that I feel like eating. WATERMELON SALAD WITH MINT As much watermelon as you and your friends can consume in one sitting, cubed feta cheese minced fresh mint…