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Foraging in Bermuda
Today’s guest writer, Barb Freda, spent 10 years on the line of professional kitchens before coming to the world of food writing and recipe development. She served as food editor for Florida Table...
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Lemon Herb Berry Jam
Preserving was one of many enjoyable rituals I shared with my mother. That made me an inveterate sweet tooth. Good jams and jellies remind me of her. She happily passed on her canning experience and...
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Vegetarian lasagna for baby Gilda
Obviously newborn babies do not eat lasagna, but this is a story about love and community, so bear with me. Earlier in the summer I promised a recipe for another favourite summer harvest soup....
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Summer harvest: pasta with basil margarita shrimp
I created this dish to take full advantage of two things our vegetable garden has produced in abundance this year: basil and zucchini. The squash should be barely cooked, just enough to absorb some of...
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Summer harvest: tomato chicken soup Provençal
Gardening without cheating is a lesson in patience and humility. By cheating I refer to all the dangerous technological measures we exert over the elements and living things. Honest organic gardening...
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Baked lobster tails with lemon garlic butter (Photovember 19)
Lobster tails do not fit in an Ontario locavore’s diet, but they’re one of my favourite foods. Zehrs had lobster tails on sale Saturday for $1.99 each so I could not resist a rare treat. I baked them...
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Photovember 30
Yesterday was my love’s birthday. I made him key lime cheesecake with coconut crust. It was delicious.
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Make a healthy salad habit
Call it a New Year’s resolution if you will. I prefer to think in terms of strategies, and my strategy is to make 2013 a year of healthier living. I plan on developing a series of habits (not all at...
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Daily salad is a healthy pleasure
I am pleased to report success in establishing a daily salad habit. I started once a week in early January and kept adding one day a week. It was super easy to do, in fact lunch has become on of the...
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Sorrel and oxalic acid
As a teenager I learned about sorrel and decided to grow it from the Sunset book How to Grow Herbs (1972). It says dismissively: “Sorrel was once eaten as a vegetable, prepared in the same fashion...
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Six great ways to use zucchini
What is the Doctor Who master race of the vegetable garden? Zucchini, of course. All this summer’s rain, sun and heat has produced a bumper crop in our garden, even thought just one vine survived...
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Quick Asian peanut soup
This soup is one of my favourite work-at-home lunches but it would be easy to prepare anywhere with access to a microwave. I invented this to overcome my hankering for those quick ramen noodle...
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