This comes from a cookbook called Lean Bean Cuisine by Jay Soloman. My mom’s best friend, Valerie, gave it to me years ago, and I still reference it to find new and exciting ways to cook different kinds of beans. Adzuki beans are definitely one of my favourites. They are the sweetest of beans. If…
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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…
Boston-Style Steamed Brown Bread & Baked Beans
This week, I present two very different cooking styles than what I’m used to. I made a happy experiment of cooking traditional Bostonian food last weekend. That’s baked beans with steamed brown bread. The bread is cooked in old coffee cans, sealed and steamed in a big pot. The beans were what started this whole…
Long Cooked Broccoli
So this is yet another amazing recipe from Chez Panisse Vegetables. I was taught that broccoli was supposed to be eaten barely cooked, so that it is still bright green, sweet and nutty. Broccoli is delicious lightly steamed. I am pretty sure that I tried this recipe initially out of curiosity. Long cooked broccoli…
Thanksgiving Entrées for Herbivores and Carnivores
WILD MUSHROOM COBBLER This is a vegetarian entrée from The New Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas (more info under the cook book tab). It is supposed to serve 6-8 but I double the recipe for 8 people because everyone loves this and goes for seconds and I don’t mind having some leftovers at all. I have sadly…
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…
Smokey Pumpkin Soup and Potato Pizza with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese (Gluten-free)
This is my favourite pumpkin soup. Its based on a Northwest Coast Cookbook that I don’t own anymore and I can’t remember its title. With the exception of the exact amount of liquid smoke… this soup is not an exact science. Feel free to improvise and make substitutions. I have a vague memory of the…
Vanilla Glaze Beets
I cooked! Finally. Pictured is a little late-night grub version. It’s baked spaghetti squash with these delicious little beets on top, and BBQ marinated tofu on the side. I’m gonna talk about the beets. These beets were baked, wrapped in tin foil on a baking dish at 350 degrees until pierceable but not mushy. The…
Groundnut and Greens Palaver with Black-Eyes
It’s the first day of autumn here on the west coast, and it’s raining, it’s cold, and I’m sick & busy. I froze some of this soup last spring during a more leisurely spell, and ingesting it is improving the quality of my life manifold. This stew is hot, rich, spicy, and packed with everything…
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 