My article on local heart-healthy caterer Joann Willes and her weekly newsletter/menu (the "seekrit list") is in the Montreal Gazette today. It's also up on their website, so check it out here, then please leave a comment and feel free to share it on facebook or twitter or … [Read more...] about I’m in the Montreal Gazette: “Montreal caterer has food ‘seekrit’ that keeps spreading”
Wild Arctic Char with Roasted Cauliflower and Apple-Vanilla Vinaigrette
This is an amazing dish. It's worth buying the book just for this recipe. It's the kind of dish that makes me hate eating at a restaurant because it lets you know that you can do just as good or better at home. If I owned a restaurant, in fact, I'd put this dish on the menu. I'm … [Read more...] about Wild Arctic Char with Roasted Cauliflower and Apple-Vanilla Vinaigrette
“Plenty” of “Good Fish” Christmas Party and Cookbook Review: The Pictures
From Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Pacific Coast by Becky Selengut: Wild Arctic Char on Cauliflower Puree with Roasted Vegetables and Vanilla-Apple Vinaigrette Roasted Wild Turbot on Bok Choy and Cabbage with Soy Caramel Sauce Wild Turbot Escabache … [Read more...] about “Plenty” of “Good Fish” Christmas Party and Cookbook Review: The Pictures
Great Success!
Whew! I made it! 4 fish dishes, 5 vegetarian dishes, one cheese tray, 5 kinds of cookies, and 10 wines, and one successful Christmas party later and I can officially say Becky Selengut's sustainable fish cookbook, "Good Fish" and Yotam Ottolenghi's vegetarian gourmet cookbook, … [Read more...] about Great Success!
Menu and Food Prep for the 4th Annual Volk/Watson Christmas Extravaganza: “Plenty” of “Good Fish”
I would write more but I'm too busy chopping onions and buying fish for the 4th annual Volk/Watson Christmas Extravaganza. My family's at-home Christmas party will see about 200 friends and friends of friends pass through our doors over the course of 4 hours tomorrow afternoon. I … [Read more...] about Menu and Food Prep for the 4th Annual Volk/Watson Christmas Extravaganza: “Plenty” of “Good Fish”
A Delicious Mess: Roasted Salmon in Red Wine Sauce with Sweet Potatoes and Leeks
I massacred this fish. It was shameful. As a person who hates over-cooked seafood, snuffs her nose when bones are left in a fillet at a restaurant, and figures that if she's going to eat a generally unsustainable thing it had better be the best thing she ever ate, I currently … [Read more...] about A Delicious Mess: Roasted Salmon in Red Wine Sauce with Sweet Potatoes and Leeks
A Food Intolerance-Free and Dietary Restriction-Conscious Christmas: Dairy-free, vegan, and gluten-free recipes for the holidays
This week on CKUT 90.3FM radio I presented a Christmas dinner menu and some holiday hosting ideas catering to those who don’t eat gluten, dairy, or meat. Or for considerate holiday party hosts who want something to feed the dangerous Christmas party guest - the vegan. I don't … [Read more...] about A Food Intolerance-Free and Dietary Restriction-Conscious Christmas: Dairy-free, vegan, and gluten-free recipes for the holidays
Socca Chickpea Flour Tart with Caramelized Onions and Roasted Tomatoes
Do you like pancakes? I love pancakes, but the flour, milk, and butter part of pancakes doesn't like me. So a recipe for Italian savoury pancakes sounded heavenly. This is basically a pancake topped with slow-cooked onions and roasted tomatoes. It's simple comfort food, and the … [Read more...] about Socca Chickpea Flour Tart with Caramelized Onions and Roasted Tomatoes
Butternut Squash and Bean Soup
When you have the triumvirate of soup vegetables in your fridge (carrots, leeks, and celery), you make soup. Simple as that. I also had a butternut squash. So that went in too. And some cooked black-eyed peas. If I'd had a potato or celeriac or spinach or chard, I would have … [Read more...] about Butternut Squash and Bean Soup
One More Kick at the Can Honey-Coconut Granola
I have a disastrous history with granola. I've made it a lot of different ways - with butter, oil, dates, oat groats, baked, raw and dehydrated, maple syrup, honey and with plain old sugar. Only once has it actually worked out well. Other times I've been stuck with tupperware … [Read more...] about One More Kick at the Can Honey-Coconut Granola