Thanks to everyone who came to the Nun's Island market today. Despite the rain, it was a nice atmosphere and I'm glad to have met some wonderful people. Here are the recipes I made today, slightly adapted from my portable grill to your home kitchens. (This is how I make these … [Read more...] about Farmers Market Recipes: Curried Cauliflower with Dried Figs and Toasted Pine Nuts; Raw Beet, Carrot and Black Radish Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette
Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free
Slow Cooker Apple Butter
What the heck is apple butter? Is it apple-flavoured butter? What do you do with it? These are all valid questions. Here are the answers: Apple butter is just apple butter cooked down to a spreadable, sort of butter-like consistency. It is not butter at all, thus is not … [Read more...] about Slow Cooker Apple Butter
Sleeping Problems, My Roommate, and Apple Pie in a Jar
One of the problems with making a lot of jam is you end up with a lot of half bottles of jam in your fridge, and if you're any good at making jam, you'll want to eat them. Now, I'm not a toast-in-the-morning kind of person because of the whole gluten thing, so I've discovered … [Read more...] about Sleeping Problems, My Roommate, and Apple Pie in a Jar
A Successful Cooking Demo at the Nun’s Island Farmers Market: Indian cauliflower, leeks vinaigrette, and sausage with grilled eggplant
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Ile-des-Soeurs market yesterday. It was a beautiful day for Indian-spiced cauliflower, leeks in apple cider and parsley vinaigrette, and Toulouse sausages with grilled eggplant, all straight from the market producers to my portable grill. … [Read more...] about A Successful Cooking Demo at the Nun’s Island Farmers Market: Indian cauliflower, leeks vinaigrette, and sausage with grilled eggplant
Homogenizers, Pacojets, and Other Things You Only See Online
You can buy lots of amazing gourmet food online. You can also choose to buy the equipment online that makes it amazing, and make your own. Well, sometimes you can. Like a dehydrator. You can buy a dehydrator to make crackers or fruit jerky, for example, but a pacojet and a … [Read more...] about Homogenizers, Pacojets, and Other Things You Only See Online
Geoduck à la Modernist Cuisine: Spaghetti alle vongole with clam noodles
Do you know the expression, "There's more than one way to skin a cat"? Well there are a grand total of two ways (that I know of) to skin a geoduck. What's a geoduck? It's a kind of clam, pronounced "gooey duck," and is very much not a duck. Each geoduck costs about $45 and for … [Read more...] about Geoduck à la Modernist Cuisine: Spaghetti alle vongole with clam noodles
Like a Kid in a Candy Shop: Lychee-Black Sesame Marshmallows and Olive Oil Gummy Worms at the Modernist Cuising Cooking Lab
I grew up in a city that didn't have a candy shop. We had one-cent candies and nerds you could buy at the convenience store, but the closest I got to an actual candy shop was the store in the Halifax airport that sold 20 flavours of candy canes when I was 10 years old. Now, … [Read more...] about Like a Kid in a Candy Shop: Lychee-Black Sesame Marshmallows and Olive Oil Gummy Worms at the Modernist Cuising Cooking Lab
The Ultimate Dairy-free Vanilla Gelato and What Seattleites Don’t Know About Coffee
The first sous vide vacuum sealing I did at the Modernist Cuisine lab wasn't to cook anything. It was to reseal an airtight package of vanilla beans. The first time I used a pacojet, however, was to whir up some vanilla gelato. This lab is known for making pistachio gelato. It's … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Dairy-free Vanilla Gelato and What Seattleites Don’t Know About Coffee
Tomato Jam (aka “Heinz on Crack”)
Normally I change a recipe in some way to adapt it to my needs. This one I kept exactly as is. It's from Food in Jars, the websit I trust the most for canning. This woman is a canning guru, and her website offers tons of recipes, tips, and canning wisdom. I call this "Heinz on … [Read more...] about Tomato Jam (aka “Heinz on Crack”)
Dairy-free Mussel Chowder
What's chowder without milk or cream? After reading Mark Kurlansky's "The Last Fish Tale" I'm happy to say it's "authentic." When there was no milk or cream to be had in the Northeastern United States, you used water. So this chowder, cooked for me by lovely people in PEI, was a … [Read more...] about Dairy-free Mussel Chowder