This recipe sprouts for 1 day, soaks for one hour, takes 30 minutes to prep and then 2/3rds of another day to dehydrate. Why would anyone got to the trouble of making this? Well, I'm a sucker for recipes that end with the instruction to "enjoy", and I suck at "real" (sugar … [Read more...] about “Raw” Granola: Dried Apricot, Almonds, Sunflower Seeds, Sprouted Oat Groats Sweetened with Date Paste
Fruit
Vanilla Bean Green Gauge Plum Jam
These plums, I believe, are also called "Reine Claude". Claude must have loved them more than the purple ones. I can understand that. See, I bought vanilla beans... I went to Épices de Cru in Jean-Talon market and asked to smell the 7 kinds of vanilla beans they keep in large … [Read more...] about Vanilla Bean Green Gauge Plum Jam
Oven-Dried Tomatoes
So I figured I'd missed the Montreal "sun-drying" opportunity. Fortunately I've been dehydrating like mad and feel very comfortable with my oven door slightly ajar. When I bought expensive tomatoes from my farmer John to make sauce he told me not to make. He said they're too … [Read more...] about Oven-Dried Tomatoes
Honey-Grilled Nectarines
I only had two white nectarines left; I could have cried. They were a little starchy. It's the end of the summer, so there are really no more great white nectarines to be had until next summer. That's so long away. Months and months of cold - mind-numbing, finger-freezing, … [Read more...] about Honey-Grilled Nectarines
My First Jam: Figs!
So maybe the title sounds a bit like a kid's story book ("My First Tooth"? I never read those...) but you could have given me a quarter and I couldn't have been any more excited than I already was. Figs are in season now! Not here, I know, but in California and in Greece. So … [Read more...] about My First Jam: Figs!
This Is What I Apparently Can’t Get Myself To Save My Life…
We're going to play a little game... Do you know what these are? Most people reading this have probably never seen them before. I bought them for the first time in Vancouver at a market and as they were rock hard and inedible, I let them ripen for a few days. They started … [Read more...] about This Is What I Apparently Can’t Get Myself To Save My Life…
Another Ridiculous Cake: Almond Angel Food Cake With Amaretto Cinnamon Figs and Honey Amaretto Cream
It was my friend's birthday and she made a joke that someone should make her a cake. I never joke about cake. So I needed to find a recipe for a cake that was large, but traveled well. So layers were out, and icing would be tricky. I've always thought of angel food cake as … [Read more...] about Another Ridiculous Cake: Almond Angel Food Cake With Amaretto Cinnamon Figs and Honey Amaretto Cream
Sticking Things In Cans (Well, jars, really…but it wasn’t such a “jarring” experience)
Today I learned to can. I'm a very strange girl in her 20's who obsesses about things such as canning. I've been trying to find someone to show me the wonders of this jar-art all summer. Well, I understand already how wonderful it is, so maybe more the intricacies of canning was … [Read more...] about Sticking Things In Cans (Well, jars, really…but it wasn’t such a “jarring” experience)
Tomatillo (“Hog Plum”) Salsa: Beyond the Great Wall
I once made a tomatillo chicken dish with canned tomatillos...in Newfoundland, home of bland food. There was no way I could possibly find them fresh, and if by some miracle they popped up in a grocery store near me I'd have to be stupid to buy them. I think maybe once I did and I … [Read more...] about Tomatillo (“Hog Plum”) Salsa: Beyond the Great Wall
One-Ingredient Ice Cream
Know those cookbooks that are called "5-Ingredient Dinners!"? It's the exclamation market that really does it for me - I don't get how people can get so excited by cream of mushroom soup, because inevitably Campbell's is called in to play in these poor excuses for well-rounded … [Read more...] about One-Ingredient Ice Cream