It seems like I’ve been narrowly skirting around illness for weeks now. The thought of miso soup sounded like an excellent idea and I pulled my usual trick of investigating what was hanging out in the fridge and pantry…
Tag: veg
Fresh Winter Potato Salad
I was walking home tonight, thinking about what to make for supper. I wanted to eat garlic, having just read an inspiring paragraph about its health benefits in the book Food Security for the Faint of Heart…
Roasted Cauliflower and Caramelized Onion Tart (Gluten-Free)
This is ANOTHER excellent recipe from Smitten Kitchen. I made a gluten-free version for New Year’s Day and it was well loved and totally devoured. I was attracted to this recipe because I am addicted to caramelized onions…
Quinoa, Fennel and Pomegranate Salad
I found a recipe that I am super inspired by. It’s by Yotam Ottolenghi, published in this month’s issue of Bon Appetit magazine. Yotam is an Israeli-born chef who is renowned for his treatment of vegetables.
Butternut Squash and Sage Pizza…or a Gluten-Free Squash and Sage Gratin
I’m going to state this up front. This pizza is fancy, and it deserves a better pizza crust than what I have to offer. I have made gluten-free pizza crust from scratch and it was not much better than the gluten-free mix, so I just use the mix when I want a pizza. The mix…
Layered Wild Mushroom Blini Casserole (Gluten-Free)
I moved to New York from Maui when I was 18 years old. I had never even been to the East coast to visit. I had a scholarship to attend college at a school just outside of the city, so I just moved here. For the first many years that you live in New…
Moroccan Carrot Salad
At this time of year I can get my favourite carrots. They’re grown in Lillooet and are amazingly sweet and delicious. The only carrots I’ve had with more flavour were from my own garden. When I worked in a produce department we used to sell out of them constantly, so I know that I’m not…
Sweet Herb Stew
Typically when improvising I play with a lot of hot flavours. I love Chinese and Indian cooking and draw liberally from their spice palette. But the other day I felt like making something not spicy. Go figure. Cuisine wise, I generalize more when I’m thinking about European cooking. For instance, I think of the herbs…
Ethiopian Bread (Gluten-Free and Blini-Like!!!!!)
Ethiopian food is served on a big flat, spongy, crepe-like bread made from a fermented batter called Injera. It is delicious and it is traditionally made with Teff flour, which is gluten-free. Yay! However, most restaurants in North America cut the Teff flour with Wheat flour (cheaper and not gluten-free). Boo! I tried the simplest…
Yam, Swiss Chard and Chipotle Gratin
I recently made a very, very good yam and swiss chard gratin from Smitten Kitchen. I also recently made a pork loin with fruit stuffing and a chipotle sherry cream sauce from a restaurant cookbook. The fruit stuffing was delicious and the sauce was amazing but altogether the pork loin dish managed to be simultaneously…
