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Cooking in Season

Salad Meals to Beat the Heat

In this recipe round up, I have gathered my best and most delicious summer salad meal recipes in …

Jun 28, 2021

Cooking in Season

Quince: Easy Peeling and Cutting Tips

Quince have a wonderful flavour, but an almost impossibly hard texture. Read on for a quick kitchen tip that makes quince easy to peel and cut!

Oct 25, 2020

Cooking in Season

Gazpacho Andaluz

A cold, refreshing, and delicious bowl authentic Spanish Gazpacho Andaluz is exactly the kind of meal we need …

Aug 7, 2019

Baking

Blueberry Cobbler with Buttermilk-Brown Sugar Biscuits

Blueberry cobbler, bubbling with dark berry juices, topped with craggy buttermilk biscuits sweetened with brown sugar, is an …

Jul 29, 2019

Cooking in Season

Seventh Annual Rancho Vignola Giveaway!

It’s time, friends! Time for my favourite event of the year on my blog – The Big Giveaway. …

Nov 25, 2018

Cooking in Season

Sixth Annual Rancho Vignola Giveaway

NOTE: Giveaway now closed Welcome to the the Sixth Annual Rancho Vignola Giveaway! For regular blog readers, you …

Nov 19, 2017

Foodgasm!

What are Curry Leaves? | South Indian Dhal Recipe

Curry leaves are a must-have: their pungent musky citrusy flavour is positively addicting. They are what separates authentic Indian food from the rest.

Feb 12, 2017

Feature Ingredients

Fifth Annual Rancho Vignola Giveaway

For the fifth year in a row, I am lucky enough to partner with Rancho Vignola, a company …

Nov 14, 2016

Cooking in Season

Methi Murgh | Chicken in Fenugreek Curry

This is a divine chicken fenygreek curry: rich, sophisticated, flavourful, with a delicate complexity from the proper cooking of Indian spices and herbs.

Sep 27, 2016

Cooking in Season

Mapo Tofu | Best Beef Stirfry | Chinese Cookbook Giveaway

Two excellent Chinese recipes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, these full-flavoured yet accessible dishes will surely make it into your regular rotation. Read on for my full cookbook review and detailed recipes.

Sep 9, 2016

Essential Thai

Thai Sweet Rice & Coconut Pudding with Golden Fruit

Today we are going to revisit one of my favourite summer fruits: the golden kiwi. Among the first …

Jul 11, 2016

Cooking in Season

Soba Noodle Salad

I have had this blog for six years without ever once mentioning my love for soba noodles. This …

May 10, 2016

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Summer on a plate. >>> Homemade tabbouli with min

Summer on a plate. >>>

Homemade tabbouli with mint, parsley and cherry tomatoes from my small garden; roasted zucchini from my friend @tjames_yyj 's garden, and local chicken with a local garlic marinade.
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Fresh, bright, unassuming, and satisfying. I love the bounty of summer, the rush to use all the vegetables and fruits that overflow my fridge, the simplicity with which meals can be thrown together.
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What is your favourite summer meal? I have so many, I'm not sure I could pick just one!
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For a short time in July, there is a magical overl

For a short time in July, there is a magical overlap of all the local fresh berries! Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and cherries ALL in peak ripeness at the same time. It is the BEST. And I make the most of it by mixing them together in as many recipes as possible. My most frequent (and honestly most simple) recipe is turning my regular breakfast into delicious All The Berry Power Muesli
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I did a story reel about this breakfast last year and saved it to my Highlights. It's is such a simple, delicious, and satisfying breakfast, and can be changed to suit your taste and the season. I love it year round, but I love it extra hard right now, during magical berry season. Check out the Highlight to learn how to make it!
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I get excited about this season because I'm old enough to remember a time when these fruits did NOT overlap in their local availability. Local strawberries were only available in June, then cherries and raspberries in early July, then blueberries in late July. One after another ONLY, unless you bought imported Sometime in the last 15 or 20 years, their growing seasons have converged, due to the development of ever-bearing varieties, early- and late-ripening varieties, and different farming practices. And I am here for it.
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How about you? Have you noticed different seasonal availability from when you were younger? Do you get excited about Magical Berry Overlap Season as I do?
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Just a few of the jams & jellies I made yesterday,

Sour cherry galette, the pie that starts my summer

I'm taking time today to think about what it means

I'm taking time today to think about what it means to be Canadian, to remind myself of the colonial history that makes it possible for me to call this beautiful and abundant land my home.
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The discovery this year of unmarked graves at Canada's former Indian residential schools has come as no surprise to me, and should not have been a surprise to any of us. We know the history. Yet I'm ashamed to say that in years past, I have been able to celebrate Canada Day in all its flag-waving, fireworks-having excitement without thinking critically of our colonial past, not its consequences for present day indigenous peoples.
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The good news is that I see our stated Canadian values of acceptance, cultural diversity, and reconciliation at work; many people around me doing the learning and the work as best they can. The bad news is that I see many people who (in the nicest terms possible) still have not started trying to learn nor to understand, who deny, or worse, justify (!), our violent history and the systems we still have in place.
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As @anisetozaatar so eloquently says, Reconciliation is a gift offered to us in good faith. Let's not waste this opportunity. Today is for grieving and reflection. I hope we can build a new Canada that holds all of its people in love, acceptance, and support.
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To learn more please check out @decolonizemyself @indiginews @indigenousperspectivesociety @decolonialatlas among MANY others.
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#canadaday #canadaday2021 #indigenouslivesmatter #everychildmatters #stophate #truthandreconciliation #familytime

Summer Salad Meals alllll week long. This #heatdom