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Jun. 28, 2021

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 one post, for days when it’s too hot to cook!

Oct. 25, 2020

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!

Sep. 20, 2020

Recipes

Quinoa Tabbouleh Salad

Fresh herbs, garlic-lemon vinaigrette and crunchy summer vegetables mixed into fluffy protein-rich quinoa, and makes for a satisfying warm weather meal.

May 31, 2020

Recipes

South Indian Coconut Seafood Curry

This coconut seafood curry is a fragrant, flavourful and distinctive dish from South India. One of my favourite curries of all time.

Aug. 23, 2019

Cooking In Season

Homemade Peach Ice Cream

This extra-peachy version of homemade peach ice cream uses an abundance of ripe fresh peaches and just enough cream to make a delicious late summer treat.

Aug. 7, 2019

Cooking In Season

Gazpacho Andaluz

A cold, refreshing, and delicious bowl authentic Spanish Gazpacho Andaluz is exactly the kind of meal we need on a sweltering August afternoon.

Jul. 29, 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 excellent way to use some fresh local BC blueberries.

Jul. 26, 2017

Cooking In Season

Freekeh Tabbouleh with Harissa-Roasted Chickpeas

Nutty, chewy freekeh makes a delicious tabbouleh salad. Complete with spicy roasted chickpeas, this is a perfect warm-weather (and plant-based!) meal.

Nov. 22, 2016

Baking

Quince Slab Pie

A large slab pie bursting with the fragrance of fresh quince.

Sep. 27, 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.

Jul. 5, 2016

Cooking In Season

Garlic Scape Pesto

Garlic scape pesto is all the rage right now, at least for me. I love pesto, and this is my favourite kind. It tastes so delicious, with a different edge to it that standard pesto.

Nov. 13, 2015

Cooking In Season

The Brussels Sprouts Recipe-Off

On Canadian Thanksgiving, I was invited to a radio interview with Bruce Williams on CFAX to discuss gravy-making, the best potatoes for mashing, my personal pie-threshold, and o...

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