We spent most of our camper honeymoon lingering in Utah. Then we sped through Colorado, Kansas, Missouri (pausing briefly to admire St Louis…GREAT CITY), Illinois and Kentucky to reach Tennessee. Utah is an astonishingly beautiful place. The landscape really deserves the adjective AWESOME. However, Utah does not seem like a place that would be easy to…
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Camper Honeymoon Cookery
Chris and I just got back from our honeymoon. We drove from British Columbia (where my family is from and where the wedding was) to Tennessee (Where Chris’ family lives) in a diesel Ford pick-up truck with a vintage Slumber Queen truck camper. The truck and Camper belonged to my daddy, who passed away a…
Corn Fritters with Poblano Peppers and Goat Cheese (Gluten-Free)
The day after our wedding we made a huge lunch out of leftovers for the 50 or so guests who were able to stay the whole weekend. Making food from leftovers is one of my favourite activities. I despise having to throw food or ingredients out so finding a way to use up several random…
Roasted Potato Salad with Garlic and Rosemary
I went through a period during college and for years after when I made this salad a lot. I had not made it in years, but thought to include it in the menu for our wedding picnic because it does well sitting out a room temperature and it uses fairly inexpensive ingredients that were in season….
Mona’s Bean Salad
I have kept a recipe note book since I was in the 6th grade. Before that there are a few random recipes in earlier diaries…but I started keeping a dedicated notebook in when I was 12 (the same year that my little sis was born). I used that note book until I was half way…
Comforting Greek Vegetable Stew
Do you like cooking for other people? Personally it’s one of my main motivations for cooking creative food, making it nourishing and preparing food in general. This week we finally started doing something at work that we’d all been intending for ages: cooking a staff lunch to share. I made a goal to start after…
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…
Huevos Rancheros (and other Mexican breakfast)
I am a lover of breakfast and also lover of Mexican food. A few days a week during the school year I teach near a cafe that makes really good Huevos Rancheros. I eat “lunch” with the kindergarteners at 10:30 AM so I order Huevos Rancheros…or rather the lady at the cafe sees me coming…
How to Roast Asparagus in Under 10 minutes
You know, I am pretty sure that I had never tasted or even heard of asparagus until I came to the east coast to go to college. When I did finally try it, I found it delicious but entirely unaffordable. I find good prices on asparagus all the time now, which makes me very happy!…
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…
Big Sis Little Dish 