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As I write this, a batch of heirloom tomatoes are slow-roasting in the oven. It is foggy outside and cool. Leaves on the trees are that goldy-green colour they get at this time of year, especially along muddy riverbanks. It’s peaceful. The aroma filling the house is heavenly. The tomatoes are roasting with thyme from [...]
Oven Baked Garlic Shrimp This is a go-to recipe for those times when you want a no-fuss, healthy, and delicious meal in minutes. Serve it alongside a fresh Caesar Salad for a garlic double-whammy. For that matter, you can toss them into a Caesar Salad. Or some brown-rice pasta. Or brown rice. These shrimp aren’t [...]
Dancing the happy dance at Dishing in the Kitchen this week! Being muffin-manic I’ve been in a muffin-panic ever since choosing to embark on a multi-month food cleanse, and to clean up my diet permanently. For me this means radically reducing my intake of wheat, dairy, most carbs, chemicals, and sugar. Don’t get me wrong [...]
“Heaven is warm asparagus with Dijon vinaigrette” – VM My Facebook friends are clamouring for this recipe, so by popular demand, here is one of the easiest of easy-bake recipes (OK, you don’t actually bake it…) Take a large saucepan, fill halfway with water and put it on to boil. Trim approximately two bunches of [...]
This blog post is for Maggie, who is an inspiring example of health and happiness! We chatted some at a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon recently and discovered we are kindred – in that we share a love for rice cakes. Yes, some claim they taste like cardboard laced with styrofoam (sourpusses!) but Maggie and [...]
I finished my 3-month cleanse at the end of July. In many ways, the cleanse was one of the biggest challenges I’ve ever taken on – I’m a foodie and I’m also rather self-indulgent. Oh, you hadn’t noticed? Ahem. And the cleanse was really restrictive. I mean. Really. Restrictive. Proud to say, though, I managed [...]
Foray into Favas: a Two-Part Blog Meet the Bean: Vicia Faba Part 1. I am trying out fava beans (Vicia Faba) from scratch for the first time! Fussy little beans, I’d say. First you need to shell them. Not quite like shelling peas, with a simple crack of the pod and the thumb-slide to release the [...]
Beautiful pea shoots from Mission, BC. I am a big fan of happy collisions, and one of the summer’s best is the collision of halibut season and pea season. Yes, it is that time of year. Peas planted in the March cold are sweet and ripe and halibut is plentiful. I’m convinced that the arrival [...]
Seven weeks and counting! Yes – that’s right, seven weeks of clean eating … and to celebrate my radical change of diet and my awesome commitment to being good to myself, here are some of my favourite dishes (so far). These are in no particular order, and I invite you to celebrate and salivate… and, [...]
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