In the winter, I am a dedicated eater of various roasted root vegetables served with various sauces (Aloo Chat Inspired Oven Fries and Oven Yam Fries with Miso Gravy). This kind of food is easy, satisfying, warming, nourishing and delicious. It’s the kind of food I need to eat after braving the cold weather. I…
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Whole Brined and Roasted Cauliflower with Romesco Sauce/ Romesco Sauce with Everything!
Last fall, I came across lots of recipes for whole roasted cauliflower. The dish has amazing visual impact, and if you poach it first in wine and spices, the flavour is extraordinary. Of the various recipes that I tried, I liked the technique used in this recipe from Bon Appetite the best. It involves poaching…
Perfumed Coconut Date Shake
Yesterday, I ran errands in Manhattan. I highly recommend visiting Manhattan during the final long weekend of summer. It’s empty, and you get the full attention of anyone unfourtunate enough to be working at the few businesses that remain open. As pleasant as it was to run my errands without having to contend with the usual…
Blackberry Beet Borscht
I know! I know! Enough with the blackberry recipes. This is the last one, since we are now back in NYC. In addition to eating a lot of blackberries while on Gabriola, we ate a good amount of locally grown vegetables. There are quite a few small farms on the island that sell at…
Cashew Dill Lemon Dressing/ Farmshare Cooking
Here is what I have been making out of the food that I have received from my farmshare for the last few weeks. Click on the hyperlinks for the recipes. I am hoping that some of you have similar vegetables to cook up! If you just want to find the recipe for Cashew Sill…
Two White Bean Dips (Gremolata/ Garlic Scape)/ Farmshare Cooking
I am loving my farm share. I could not really tell in advance if it would work out to be a good deal, but now I am certain that it is an excellent value. I am enjoying the challenge of figuring out what to cook with a variety of vegetables that I don’t usually buy, and…
Baked Pistachio Herb Falafel with Two Sauces
I have been pining after a Tomato, Fennel, Yogurt sauce that I used to make. It was called Sauce Afghan and it was from my favourite Indian Cookbook Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking by Julie Saini. To make the sauce you fry onions, fresh tomatoes and yogurt with delicious spices until it separates and thickens…
Hashed Brussel Sprouts with Poppy Seeds and Lemon- For the Spring!
One of my best college friends had a job as the reservationist at Union Square Cafe when we first graduated from college. At the time, it was very hard to get a reservation at Union Square Cafe, so they were lucky to have Marya. If hundreds of your would be customers have to be told that,…
Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Sweet Lime Sriracha Sauce
As I have mentioned before, I am not much of a deep fry cook. I like deep-fried food, but I leave it to the experts. The food that I deep fry ends up burnt on the outside and raw in the middle, or it’s cooked through, but soggy with oil. I know, I am…
Simple Curried Quinoa with a Crunchy Kale and Coconut Topping
I tend to be skeptical about health food. Spending my childhood in the Pacific Northwest and in Hawaii, I was always around glowingly healthy hippies who claimed that some ridiculously healthy thing they had taken to eating was “delicious”. You can’t fool children, and there are only so many times you can feed them sprouts…
Big Sis Little Dish 