If you missed how excited about Arctic kiwi growing in Massachusetts I got last week, allow me to remind you with a video and some audio from y trip to permaculture farms, Food Forest Farm and Tripple Brook Farm. Eric, Jonathan and Steve welcomed our class into their edible … [Read more...] about Video and Audio of Permaculture Practices from Food Forest Farm and Tripple Brook Farm
Salade Nicoise à la Selengut
This is a very telling salad. In the intro to the recipe, author Becky Selengut writes that Salade Nicoise is a dish where cooks show their personality types: "Anal types will place each ingredient in efficient, color-coordinated piles, most likely not touching each other. … [Read more...] about Salade Nicoise à la Selengut
Stout-Poached Apples with Sarsaparilla Mousse, Smoked Puff Pastry and Cilantro Syrup at Cafe Sardine, and Where to Find the Best Apple Dishes at Montreal Restaurants This Week
Check out my story on the best apple dishes in Montreal at Nightlife.ca. Please 'like it', tweet it, or leave a comment! I want to turn this into a Montreal restaurant series on where to eat each week with a focus on a particular ingredient. Want to hear about where to find the … [Read more...] about Stout-Poached Apples with Sarsaparilla Mousse, Smoked Puff Pastry and Cilantro Syrup at Cafe Sardine, and Where to Find the Best Apple Dishes at Montreal Restaurants This Week
Kiwis for Locavores: Permaculture at Food Forest Farm
Have you ever felt bad about (or judged for) buying a pineapple in North America? That pineapple traveled a long way, and ate up a lot of carbon just so we could eat it back. And why should we buy that pineapple when we have apples year-round? And if you turn those summer … [Read more...] about Kiwis for Locavores: Permaculture at Food Forest Farm
Curried Pumpkin Seeds with Garam Masala
When you cook something with pumpkin or squash (such as Thai pumpkin stew) and you spend all that time removing the seeds and the muck, it's a shame to just throw out all the protein. Ok, chuck the muck, but keep the seeds. I went through a pumpkin seed stage and then realized I … [Read more...] about Curried Pumpkin Seeds with Garam Masala
Thai Pumpkin Curry with Mackerel and Fish Sauce
I wrote about how I was gifted a pumpkin at a farmers market. Well, a girl can't live on pumpkin smoothies alone, try as she might. And I didn't try very hard. So I ended up with half a pumpkin to cook. And that, dear reader, called for pumpkin stew. but I don't really like your … [Read more...] about Thai Pumpkin Curry with Mackerel and Fish Sauce
DIY Blueberry Cereal Bars from “Wonderland Kitchen” and Recipe Exchange
Remember when you were young and wanted to share a recipe with someone, and you had to write it out for them? It took time and effort, and then the copied recipe would (probably) be dutifully tucked into a recipe collection to be used at a future date. When I was young, the most … [Read more...] about DIY Blueberry Cereal Bars from “Wonderland Kitchen” and Recipe Exchange
Thumbprint Cookies and Slow-cooker Sugar-free Raspberry Jam
What I learned from a rotary evaporator was that reducing liquids at very low temperatures saves their flavour. Not that the rotary evaporator stood in front of a classroom of able-minded cooks and told me that. Instead, I tasted it in the spherified orange juice that looked like … [Read more...] about Thumbprint Cookies and Slow-cooker Sugar-free Raspberry Jam
Thanksgiving 2012 – The Photos
Wow. What a dinner. The brined turkey tasted like amazing pho' broth soaking into the most tender meat. The stuffing with gluten-free bread absorbed it all too, with just a little smokiness (others said. I couldn't taste the smoke), maybe from the oven, which was smoking, or from … [Read more...] about Thanksgiving 2012 – The Photos
Brined Roast Turkey, Day 2
There is a 12 lb turkey sitting in my canning pot. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because the brine I made of salt, sugar, water, vegetables and spices is slowly seeping into the flesh. It's bad because I didn't inject the brine directly into the turkey as … [Read more...] about Brined Roast Turkey, Day 2