Its time to make gratins again! Here is the beautiful thing about a gratin….while it is true that it takes a bit of effort to make, it prepares a large amount of food that you can then reheat for your dinners all week-long. With a salad, a gratin counts as a complete meal! If you…
Tag: winter
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…
Sweet and Sour Honey Pickled Beets
I think of pickled beets as being very Canadian. I moved to the States when I was 9 years old, and I can remember being REALLY excited about eating home-made pickled beets when we came back to Canada to visit family. In my family, if you are having guests or extended family for dinner…
Easiest of the Easy: Lentils Monastery Style with New-style Southern Cornbread
Well…. I’m still struggling with the fact that working in a commercial kitchen; however excellent, fruitful and fulfilling, diminishes my desire for cooking at home. Tonight I’m trying to convince myself that cooking is easy and satisfying by making two of the easiest and yummiest dishes in my repertoire. They are Monastery-style Lentil Soup and…
Cheap eats- Brazilian Black Bean Soup and Pineapple Mint Salsa
I am a freelance arts educator. I usually spend the September hussling work and start teaching a bit in October. However, I do not get paid for any of my work until sometime in November.
Improvise Stir Fry!
You know, everyone who I consider my tribe here in Vancouver–and I’m talkin’ my extended circle of friends and acquaintances–make stir fries. It’s my regional cuisine, and it’s a way of life. Why is this? The deep-rooted Chinese influence on the city? The chronically lingering hippy culture? Maybe it’s the fact that stir fries are…
Gluten-Free Quiche
My mother has a lot of friends who are boat people. People who built their wooden boat by hand or restored an old fishing boat or catamaran before sailing it to New Zealand, or Fiji or Hawaii. She married one of them when I was nine (my dad John Berry). I wholeheartedly approved of the…
Jain Coriander-Scented Millet and Mung Bean Pilaf with Homemade Ghee
Otherwise known as Ahmadabad Jain Pullao, this wonderful recipe comes from Julie Sahni’s Classic Indian and Vegetarian Grain Cooking. I’ve been delving into this book lately, and finding that Indian cooking has a lot to do with different dairy preparation techniques. Yogurt is a complete main-stay, as is ghee…. USLI GHEE To make 3/4 cup…
Carrot Soup with Fennel and Fresh Thyme with Biscuits (Traditional and Gluten-Free)
It is strange that I had not made this carrot soup yet this year. I usually make it every other week or so during the Autumn and Winter. It is easy to make, totally satisfying and uses ingredients that I always seem to have on hand. I got this soup from a cooking magazine (maybe…
Perfectly Seasoned Creamy Cauliflower Soup (with no cream)
Today, Chris and I ate cauliflower soup and a pear, blue cheese, hazelnut salad (see Salads with Pears on this blog). It was a good wintry meal…lots of white and green. I am not always a fan of cauliflower. I like it in Indian food and I like this soup. I can’t really remember where…
Big Sis Little Dish 