This recipe is definitely part of Operation Use-It-Up, but I got tired of using that term in all my post titles. It’s kind of off-putting, don’t you find? Posts about the struggle to use things from my pantry and freezer(s) will now be found under the category “Operation Use-It-Up” down there on the sidebar. In
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January 22, 2012
Bean and Sausage Soup with Parmesan
January 17, 2012
Operation Freezer, Week Two: Roasted Chicken and Raspberries in Syrup
This has been a red-letter week in Operation Freezer. I managed to use up freezer items for at least three delicious meals, and to dispose of one sad lonely pork loin chop that has been making me feel guilty every time I open Freezer One. However. I have been thinking. I’ve decided that my Freezer Issue isn’t
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August 16, 2011
Dinner with a Farmer
I have a backlog of recipe ideas and photos to share with you, but I have been guilty of taking some vacation time, and leaving important things like recipe notes and photo sticks behind. What can I say? I happen to be visiting my brother-in-law and his family on Gabriola Island right now (also
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May 2, 2011
Green Birthday Parties
My oldest son turns the big one-o today. Double digits already! Why did I not realize this would happen so quickly? I actually feel slightly ridiculous – I was warned many, many, many times that childhood goes by just exactly this quickly. Every new parent has heard this, or variations of it: “Enjoy it – it goes by
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April 26, 2011
(Not my) Pantry of Shame
Only the promise of new friends convinced me to share a picture of my pantry with the world. No one needs to see, or should see, my pantry. I barely look in there myself. That is possibly why it is such a mess. But since I hit the ‘send’ button on my picture of shame, I am in
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March 16, 2011
Homemade Organic Chicken Stock
I have been ill with the never-ending fluish thing for almost two weeks now. A full week of that time was spend laid up in bed. Anyone who knows me knows that laying in bed for seven days (or even for one day) is completely out of character for me. So, as you can imagine,
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February 5, 2011
Bittersweet Chocolate Taste-Off
Here’s my problem: I like to use the phrase “business write-off” to justify lots of impulsive food purchases. Like last month, when I bought a whole bunch of new and different baking chocolates that I had seen crop up at the supermarkets. My vague idea was to “try them out sometime”, but really, if I could
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December 29, 2010
Pasta For a Winter’s Night
This is about the time in the winter holiday when even turkey soup has palled. We need something different, maybe spicy, maybe with some fresh vegetables. So I wanted to write something that was not about the inventive use of turkey leftovers. Please, no more. (Not to waste the turkey: I like to freeze the meat and gravy after
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December 23, 2010
Homemade Christmas Stollen
Thanks to my German heritage, I grew up watching my mother make stollen every December. The slices of marzipan-filled candied fruit bread would lay in glory on the Christmas goodie trays, but I wouldn’t touch it. As a child, Nutella was the only German sweet I felt proud to call my own. All that has changed, of
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December 11, 2010
What I Have Been Eating In Busy-Land
As you have noticed, I have been absent from the blog for a while. Most of you know that I am in crunch time with exams, assignments, and papers, which I am trying to squeeze in to the time I have left between teaching cooking classes and parenting my suddenly needy (now why would that
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