You don't need to find amarillo chili peppers for this recipe. Any long, red or orange chili pepper will work, but there are, conveniently, a few appropriate long, skinny spicy peppers in the Lufa Farms basket this week. Common substitutes for amarillos are serrano or habanero … [Read more...] about Peruvian Nordic Shrimp “Causa” with Aji Amarillo Chili Paste
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White Wine Vinegar & Miso Dressing for Steamed Swiss Chard
This white wine vinaigrette dilutes the punch of vinegar with yogurt and sweetens it with honey, and because of the yogurt you don't need a lot of oil - just give it a splash. Actually you can be pretty loose with most of the ingredients as long as you taste it after and … [Read more...] about White Wine Vinegar & Miso Dressing for Steamed Swiss Chard
Amazing Slow-Cooked (or Quick) Tomato Sauce
I made the most amazing tomato sauce. I'm serious. If you were me and I was you I would marry you for this tomato sauce. Honestly the best tomato sauce I've ever made, including many attempts with San Marzanos, supposedly the best and naturally sweetest canned, imported … [Read more...] about Amazing Slow-Cooked (or Quick) Tomato Sauce
Organic Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam
Every time I look in my preserves cupboard now I smile. My fridge is also happy since I had some extra jam and no sterilized jars and had to leave some un-canned in glass jars in the fridge. So whether or not you actually want to put this jam in jars and seal them for later this … [Read more...] about Organic Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam
Award-Winning Sweet-and-Sour Pickles
You're supposed to can these, but if you don't feel like sterilizing and going through all the trouble just to make a small batch of sugary cucumber pickles, skip the sterilizing and boiling jars steps and store the pickles in your fridge in a glass jar for maybe up to 3 … [Read more...] about Award-Winning Sweet-and-Sour Pickles
“What do you do with 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?” Part 4: Award-Winning Sweet and Sour Pickles
You're supposed to can these, but if you don't feel like sterilizing and going through all the trouble just to make a small batch of sugary cucumber pickles, just skip the sterilizing and boiling jars steps and store the pickles in your fridge in a glass jar for maybe up to 3 … [Read more...] about “What do you do with 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?” Part 4: Award-Winning Sweet and Sour Pickles
Cucumber Sushi
I didn't have any sashimi-grade fish kicking around. Instead, what I had was cucumbers. Not a bad thing, as it turned out. Ingredients: 2 cups sushi rice (sushi rice is a short-grain rice that turns sticky when you cook it. You can find it at most grocery stores and all Asian … [Read more...] about Cucumber Sushi
Simple Dill Pickles
Finding a good basic dill pickle recipe was tricky. You don't need to can them and have them sit around for a week before you eat them if you don't want to - for "Quick Pickles" just make the brine and pour it over the pickles (preferably sliced so they absorb more of the liquid … [Read more...] about Simple Dill Pickles
Mayo-Free Potato Salad
It’s sad that most people probably don't think potatoes have a natural flavour besides maybe "starchy", and that’s hardly a flavour. That most recipes call for them to be coated in a large amount of some kind of fat to make them worth eating is not okay to me. There's nothing … [Read more...] about Mayo-Free Potato Salad
“What do you do with 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?” Part 3: Dill Pickles
In between sushi meals, I pickled. There's a whole lot of energy in sweetened and vinegared white rice, it turns out. Finding a good basic dill pickle recipe, however, turned out to be tricky. Now I know I should have gone either to my Joy of Cooking or to the US National Centre … [Read more...] about “What do you do with 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?” Part 3: Dill Pickles