This was my lunch last week. It was made up of leftovers from the previous day’s dinner: salmon, beets, new potatoes and farm market salad. Although this looks like a gourmet and inventive use of leftovers, really it was me being lazy and trotting out something I already make regularly in the summer: the Summer Salad
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September 7, 2012
Summer Salad Meal (West Coast Nicoise)
August 31, 2012
Garlic Chili Dilly Runner Beans
Yesterday, I posted one of our simplest and favouritest summer meals: crispy chicken with Nonna’s green beans. We eat green beans a lot around here, since they are a favourite vegetable of at least three members of our family. Seasonal, nutritious, tender-crisp, sweet, done in a jiffy – does it get any better? Yes, it does, apparently.
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August 30, 2012
The Simple Recipe that my Family Thinks is All Gourmet
Since I have started documenting my simple summer meals, I realize that I make Crispy Broiled Chicken quite frequently. It’s so common around here and so well-loved that I’ve even posted about it once before. I make Crispy Broiled Chicken because it guarantees super-crispy skin and moist meat on the very same piece of bird. It’s my favourite method for
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August 27, 2012
Simple Summer Meals and the Kid Rating
Thank you for the positive feedback I’ve received so far on my first simple meal post. I’m thrilled to know that I’m in good company while I suffer from a love of cooking/eating with not-enough-time-to-make-it-happen. Wait, let me rephrase. I did know I am not alone in this, but I’m thrilled to know that some of you want to read
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August 25, 2012
A Simple Summer Meal meets the Problem with my Blog
Many of my cooking class students are curious about my home cooking and my family’s eating habits. In almost every class, it seems, I am fielding questions about my personal life, the most common two being: “Will your kids eat this?” and “Do you cook like this at home?” The short answer to these kinds of questions is ”most
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August 16, 2012
Camping Food, Post Three: Huckleberry Pancakes
By the time you read this post, I will be away camping on beautiful Cortes Island with my children and their cousins. I will, without a doubt, be making a giant batch of these pancakes on the trip, possibly on this very day. Apparently, a camping trip without Auntie Heidi’s huckleberry pancakes is
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July 28, 2012
Spiced Gooseberry Chutney
If you have been wanting to buy some of those gorgeous green gooseberries but are not sure what to do with them, let me help you out. First of all, make yourself some gooseberry jam. Hands down my favourite jam in the universe! But definitely, definitely make sure you save some berries to make a jar (or
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July 26, 2012
Exciting Moments
Sometimes, when I want to give it all up in despair – the long hours, the one-woman show, the stress of self-employment while parenting young kids – the universe throws me a nice meaty bone of encouragement. Or two, even. I am happy to say that this week, I have been bolstered up, and so
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July 8, 2012
Tayberry Lemonade!
Now this is the kind of post that needs to start with exclamation marks! Because it’s summer and the berries are BACK! And there is nothing so refreshing as lemonade, on ice, on the deck, on a hot summer evening – especially if you are school-aged and the lemonade in question is pink! YEAH!! I think I need
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May 30, 2012
A Reuben for my Ruben
My oldest son is named Ruben. We spell it the Spanish way to be all trendy and alternative, although we prefer to tell people that Ruben is named after a Cuban musician. But here’s a secret: I really named him after my one of my favourite sandwiches, the Reuben. Trust me to name my child after a menu item. So… I
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