Sometimes, usually on a Friday, our friend Bethany drops in. She has keys to our place, so she could just come over un announced, but usually she calls to say that she’s going to drop by after school. She is in Medical school at SUNY downstate which is right around the corner from our house….
Tag: winter
Cheerful and Simple Kumquat Salad
Kumquats are amazing. You eat the whole fruit. They are the size of an olive, the rind and pith are sweet like candy and the flesh is just the right amount of tart. I appreciate that they appear in markets when it starts to get cold because they are cheerful and full of vitamin C….
Christmas Gifts
I have been lame about giving gifts for the last many years. It is easy for me to look to look at the bizarre consumerism of Christmas and just disconnect from the whole process. Truthfully though, I love giving gifts! I also love my stuff, my objects, the gifts that people have given me. My…
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…
Clementine Marmalade Cake (Gluten-Free)…a cure for the winter blues
Yesterday, I tried a new cake recipe. I was interested in this cake because it is made from whole clementines that are boiled, pureed and then combined with just a handful of other ingredients, as if the inventor had started off making marmalade and then changed their mind and made a cake instead. I love…
Chicken and Dumplings (gluten-free and traditional)
This is one of the most ridiculously simple and comforting foods in the world. I learned to make chicken and dumplings from a copy of The New England Cookbook by Brooke Dojny which my friend Katherine gave me as a gift many years ago. Katherine has taught me about all things good, comforting and delicious…
Ideas for Thanksgiving Dinner
Last year, I posted all of my Thanksgiving recipes the week after the holiday. I realized that this was not very helpful. Here are links to all of the recipes that we have posted that would be great for a Thanksgiving meal. Next year, maybe we will get it together to do this for Canadian…
Cornbread, Fruit, Almond and Olive Stuffing (Gluten -Free)
Today I carried an entire year’s worth of shadow puppet making supplies to my favourite school. I teach puppetry at this school in grades pre-k through 3rd so I had A LOT of art supplies. I called a car service (even I don’t bike with that much stuff to carry). To my delight, my cab…
Big Sis Little Dish 