I recently put this ridiculously delicious appetizer on the summer Eight Course Vegan Tasting Menu for the Illuminati Ball. I’m really enjoying changing the dishes out to use seasonal ingredients. The Illuminati Ball has been extended until the end of October! If you read these recipes and think “That sounds great, but I’d rather have someone…
Tag: summer
Tomato Soup with Smoked Paprika
I started imagining this soup in the late winter, when good tomatoes and the time to cook seemed like a distant and impossible fantasy. I just scribbled out the basic idea and waited for August to come. It was worth the wait. My mother and I made this soup from amazing local tomatoes grown by…
Blackberry Curd
The drought in British Colombia made the blackberries more scarce than usual this summer. In response to the lack of berries I came up with a really good blackberry picking innovation. I have a leather jacket that I have owned since I was 18. I was trying it on for fun and the salesman thought…
Blackberry Lime Cashew Cream Tart with a Ginger Crust (Gluten-Free and Vegan)/ My sister’s birthday
I know. I JUST posted a birthday blackberry dessert. That’s because August is all about blackberries and Leo birthdays. I have a lot of Leos in my life. I could probably do a birthday post every other day if I had time to make desserts for all of my Leo friends and family. My mother, my…
Blackberry Apple Tart in a Salted Almond Crust (Gluten-Free and Vegan)/ My mum’s birthday
I spend as much of my August as I can on Gabriola Island in British Colombia, Canada. My mum is now retired and lives their full time in the house that my dad built for her. We spend much of our time swimming int he ocean, walking through the forest and picking blackberries. So, prepare…
Thai Coconut Chicken Soup/ Farmshare Cooking weeks 8 and 9
FARMSHARE COOKING WEEK 8 Lettuce, Beets and Cucumbers- Made into Salads Starring Beets Broccoli- Made into Curried Broccoli Soup with Cashew Cream Eggplant- Broiled with Miso Honey Sauce Plums- Made into Plum Chutney for Spicy Chickpea Pancakes Blueberries- Eaten on top of gluten-free whole grain cereal for breakfasts Peaches- Eaten with Gluten-Free Coconut Pancakes and…
Summertime Black Forest Cake (Gluten-Free)
I promised to post this a while back and then I got really busy. A few years a go I made very rich gluten-free black forest trifles for my late winter birthday. This Black Forest cake is different. The cake is light and springy. The cream is barely sweet. The cherries are fresh. I’ve made…
Sour Cherry (or Plum) and Rhubarb Crumble (gluten-free or not)/ Farmshare Cooking weeks 6 and 7
Once again I have been too busy working to spend a lot time experimenting with food. My farmshare has been arriving every week to save me from the diet of take-out that overworked New Yorkers use as their default. I can’t stand letting food go to waste, so my diet has been full of…
Kerthy’s Spinach Salad with Strawberries, Bacon and Spring Onions/ A Hedonist’s Guide to Strawberries
Here is one of my very earliest food memories. I was 3 or 4 years old (I know because we moved a lot, and this happened at the house I lived in when I was 3 or 4). It was a sunny, hot day, and my mother had set up the sprinkler so that could…
Salmon Ceviche (inspired by Chile)
My husband and I spent most of last January in Chile working on this puppet show and then traveling a bit. It was a glorious southern hemisphere summer. We ate a lot of terrific food, which I have been putting off sharing until the weather got warmer in my home hemisphere. Chile has 2,563 miles…
Big Sis Little Dish 