Monthly Archives: January 2011
Orange upside-down cake.
It was plum season when I wrote about upside-down cakes, and I mentioned then that you would want to try making upside-down cakes with oranges in the wintertime. I love being right – and with oranges baked in caramel, how … Continue reading
Lentils with bacon.
Nick is a pretty, pretty boy, with bright blue eyes and dimples, and he’s tall and I met him in poetry class in 2006. He was literate and a looker, and that’s all I thought I needed. We started dating … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, quick, Recipe, vegetables
Thank you very much.
Hello! Before we get too far away from last Saturday (and the end of the voting for Best Canadian Food Blog), I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you. Thank you for voting for this blog, and … Continue reading
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Salmon and mushroom casserole, or “Salmon Balls.”
One of the first dinners I ever made came from one of my mom’s Company’s Coming cookbooks – I don’t know if you can get those books in the states, but at one time everyone’s Canadian mother had them; I … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, fish & seafood, Recipe, tasty
Peas and carrots.
Remember those bags of frozen peas, corn, and carrots, where each bit of vegetable was the same size and roughly the same hue? Do they still exist? We had them a lot in the early 90s – it seems everyone … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, quick, Recipe, vegetables, vegetarian
Winter in the garden.
We’ve neglected our garden over the past couple of months, as snow fell in November and it rains a lot here and it’s dark when we get home from work so there’s never an opportune time to check in with … Continue reading
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Butternut squash and chickpea curry.
At 8:15 every morning when I walk down Granville Street to Broadway to take the bus to work, the ladies in the kitchen at Vij’s have already been at work for awhile, and the neighbourhood smells like onions frying in … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, quick, Recipe, vegetables, vegetarian
Vegetarian borscht with beets and red cabbage.
This is our eleventh day off in a row since we both got time off for the holidays, and right about now I am feeling as though I need a vacation from my vacation, perhaps to sit on a beach … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, Recipe, soup, vegetables, vegetarian
