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• Picnic season.
• It’s not so dark.
• Pot roast weather.
• Roasted cauliflower soup.
• Kiwi sorbet.
• Creamy garlic and white bean soup.
• Overnight pancakes.
• Sweet potato tortilla Española
• A request and a winner.
• Crafty macaroni and cheese
• A sick day, a giveaway
• Slow-cooker ham and white bean stew
• Into the pantry: Lentil Sloppy Joes
• Eggnog chocolate pudding.
• Guest post: Taslim Jaffer’s Extreme Chocolate Cake
• Toad in the Hole.
• Stewed short ribs.
• Turkey chili.
• Candied pork belly.
• Corn waffles.
• You CAN have too many giant turnips.
• Potato-crusted halibut cheeks.
• Making rainbow pasta at Project Space.
• Strawberry lemon pancakes.
• Picnics and bacon-wrapped garlic scapes.
• Potatoes with chorizo, scallops, and gremolata.
• Scotch eggs.
• Yellow curry braised beef.
• A maple-scented pudding and a quiet moment alone.
• Nasi goreng.
• Picking a winner.
• New soil to till.
• Giving away The Homemade Pantry
• Twenty-nine.
• Sugar sandwiches.
• Kasha varnishkes.
• A recipe for apple cake.
• It’s “Say something nice on the Internet Day.”
• Mushroom and butter bean ragù
• Green tea and Meyer lemon jelly
• Fudge brownies.
• Fish and chips.
• Roasted grapes.
• Canadian Pudding.
• Merry Christmas!
• Sweet potato and pear barlotto.
• Rabbit cacciatore.
• Well, hello.
• Nectarine kuchen.
• Pepper pot.
• Roasted tomato and garlic soup
• On moving apartments and melting cheese.
• A perfect day for pickle-making.
• Roasted peach sorbet.
• Roasted apricot with cottage cheese
• Peach and raspberry streusel cake
• Halibut Ratatouille en Papillote.
• Zucchini parmigiana sandwiches.
• Strawberries.
• Corn and asparagus salad
• Nature hates me, and the feeling might be mutual.
• And then I fell into the couch and ate watermelon salad until none remained.
• Rhubarb-raspberry stew with dumplings.
• Rich, hearty meat sauce.
• Oh! Pretty!
• Paneer with greens and chickpeas.
• Mexican minestrone.
• Guest post: Vegetable pulao and fruit lassi.
• Hangry.
• Asparagus.
• Wordless Wednesday: This is why we can’t have nice things, Cat.
• Sriracha buffalo wings.
• Wordless Wednesday: Picking Dinner
• Pear galette with rosemary and Chevre.
• Wordless Wednesday: A sunny day in spring
• Curried apple and Cheddar soup.
• Avocado waffles.
• Peanutty soba noodles with kale.
• Rapini and sausage with white beans and orecchiette
• Guest post from South America: Maracuya Sour
• Wordless Wednesday: It snowed the other night and, magically, we had no place to go.
• Something like mujadara, only French, kind of.
• Yogurt cheese, smoked salmon, and canneloni.
• Salmon ‘n Bannock.
• Beet risotto.
• Today I went downtown to try and get a spot on a new Food Network show.
• Bacon.
• Paprika roast chicken, again.
• Meatless hot and sour soup.
• Thank you again. And now I need your happy thoughts for someone else.
• Orange upside-down cake.
• Lentils with bacon.
• Thank you very much.
• Salmon and mushroom casserole, or “Salmon Balls.”
• Peas and carrots.
• Fried potatoes. Mostly.
• Winter in the garden.
• Butternut squash and chickpea curry.
• Vegetarian borscht with beets and red cabbage.
• How is it New Year’s Eve again?
• Feuerzangenbowle!
• Merry Christmas!
• Grandpa’s Radio Pudding.
• Vegetarian hominy casserole.
• Moon Chai.
• Eggnog baked oatmeal.
• Stout hot chocolate.
• Kimchi pancake.
• Shrimp and grits.
• Cauliflower macaroni and cheese.
• Oat crêpes.
• I’ve had enough winter now.
• Tamale pie with black beans and red peppers.
• Choucroute garnie à l’Alsacienne.
• Coq au Riesling.
• Meatball soup with kale and chickpeas.
• Potato and kale “Dutch” quesadillas.
• Guest post: On being raised by hippies
• Too many things!
• On choosing a pumpkin if you are six.
• Pumpkin and red lentil dahl.
• Cupcake Molly.
• Broccoli with tofu and peanuts.
• Persimmon oatmeal cookies.
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Celeriac and apple soup.
• Chipotle macaroni and cheese.
• Plum upside-down cake.
• Risotto and procrastination with currants, orange, and almonds.
• Meatless Monday: Creamy white beans with rosemary for breakfast.
• A Clambush at Desolation Sound.
• Coconut chicken corn chowder, and some pictures that do not do it justice.
• Stuffing ball soup.
• Quick “tandoori” halibut.
• Garden report: Just imagine excited shrieking and jumping up and down.
• Roasted tomato pizza.
• Update: I am not dead.
• Three days!
• If you’re going to tart up your veggies with cheese sauce, do it with this cheese sauce.
• Catching up, the 3-Day Novel, and Sushi Shelter 101.
• Garden report: We have so much chard, and the threat of too many cucumbers.
• Meatless Monday: Shepherd’s Pie, sans shepherd.
• Get yogurt, make cheese.
• Meatless Monday: Fried tofu with plum sauce and some rambling.
• Emily gets crabby in her rantypants, uses more swears than normal.
• Chocolate zucchini cake: It’s outrageous!
• Meatless Monday: Huevos Rancheros in Purgatory.
• Garden report: A shaky little tour.
• Salt-crusted salmon with lime.
• This soup we like with zucchini, tomatoes, and tofu.
• Blueberry crisp and a lot of procrastination.
• Chard risotto with a soupçon of whining.
• Meringue held up my fruit and yogurt this morning, and thus Tuesday was vastly improved.
• A day of fantastic meats.
• Garden report: Of course you want to hear more about radishes!
• On the topic of picnics.
• Some talk about cherries.
• Meatless Monday, zucchini salsa, and a distressing case of not having anything to say but writing anyway.
• Orange granita that tastes like Creamsicles.
• Roasted cauliflower soup with Manchego. Also? I picked the wrong day for soup. Sweet Raptor Jesus, summer has arrived.
• Meatless Monday. Radishes again. But this time, curried with paneer!
• Roasting a chicken is a very good idea.
• Garlic scapes and chickpeas and tomatoes. Hooray!
• Scallion spaetzle: It’s like spring or summer or something.
• Savoury strawberry salad: More awesome than alliteration!
• Agriculture: I’m doing it!
• Separation anxiety, Paul’s farewell, and avocado pudding.
• Cucumber salad.
• Basil lemonade: Perfect for sunny patches, summer picnics, and chilled bottles of vodka.
• Tuna tartare, and a repressed yuppie sort-of howl.
• Sometimes there just aren’t words. Fortunately, there are always blurry photos.
• Roasting radishes brings out all the best adjectives.
• Beurre blanc: A tasty conclusion to a very good day.
• Rhubarb cobbler.
• Cinnamon breakfast bread.
• A delicious thing to do with sardines.
• Good olive oil, run-on sentences, and bread soup.
• Food is love, and I know that leggings aren’t really pants.
• A little trip requires a lot of cleaning and I prefer baking so I made cookies and the apartment is still gross. But carrots! Cookies! Carrot cookies!
• Creamy, springy trout chowder.
• Homemade salted caramels.
• Some people use air fresheners, but I prefer spicy cakes.
• Can I write about meatloaf in May?
• I am pretty sure that every recipe for pistachio pudding that exists anywhere on the Internet or elsewhere is the direct result of the Kraft marketing department. This recipe is no such thing.
• Chicken and spinach calzones.
• I am such a creepy, creepy weirdo.
• Green soup.
• No wanting for waffles in Victoria.
• Peanut butter and white chocolate shortbread cookies.
• Ten-minute sweet yellow curry.
• If, like me, you ate a kilo of Mini Eggs this weekend, a little bit of stewed rhubarb is probably exactly what you need.
• Chai tea: Perfect for thunderstorms.
• Meyer lemon shortbread.
• Mexico, St. Lorenzo, and some brunchy buns that belong to both.
• A little list for the lovely Miss Rosa.
• Burger night, but we had no buns or money.
• Bread pudding with spinach, feta, and ham.
• Radishes are the new whatever we were eating all winter.
• Not your regular old ham-leftovers soup.
• Sticky toffee pancakes.
• Thai basil is the greatest invention since regular basil.
• Spicy beans.
• The word of the day is “lazy.”
• Eggs Rabbit.
• Blood orange cookie bars.
• Casseroles: Not totally gross?!
• The good tuna.
• Lobster and sake: So this is February?
• Things to not be messed with: Sticky toffee pudding, and also me. But mostly the pudding, because I probably won’t fight back but we have to defend the food.
• Things that are delicious: Pork belly.
• Here’s that meatball recipe.
• A little bit of lemon on a weeknight.
• Thank-you cookies.
• Oh! I suppose it was Valentine’s Day!
• I’m sorry, it’s really quite nice here. Not a flake of snow in sight. I have no idea where my gloves are. I made you some fried chicken.
• Root beer cookies.
• Leek and bacon barlotto.
• Red bean soup.
• Tangelo Tart: Not just an amazing stripper name.
• Burdock pickles.
• Deep frying and sriracha even makes eggs better.
• Another easy pizza crust, perfect for something unpleasant like Wednesday.
• Winter chili: Sometimes you’re just too lazy to go to the store.
• Things like blue-cheese mousse.
• Lazy Sunday muffins.
• Homemade soy milk? Not difficult, and cheaper than anything ever.
• Quiche is nothing to sneer at and is plenty manly, thanksverymuch.
• Miso Monday.
• A Notte morning for three.
• We’re not so poor that we can’t help.
• Things that are delicious: Kale.
• Mushroom risotto: An easy, inexpensive, and thoroughly impressive gourmet meal.
• Happy New Year!
• Winter minestrone.
• Anything “gratin” is obviously going to be delicious.
• Kroketten: Make your holiday leftovers into delicious fried snack food.
• Bribe Santa and warm your little bones with Mexican hot chocolate.
• Gingerbread? Don’t mind if I do.
• Red velvet cupcakes: Handfuls of holiday spirit.
• Feasting on fudge: I don’t know why my party dresses don’t fit anymore either.
• These are a few of my favourite things.
• I am one of those dorks on her laptop in the café on the corner. Make this corn.
• Rainy night, rice pudding.
• Cranberry scones, and good morning to you!
• Turnip? Rutabaga? Whatever, just turn it into dinner.
• When it’s rainy and windy and there are boxes everywhere and if you live in Vancouver, go to The Three Lions Café.
• Bulgur risotto, with lima beans or peas or whatever you’ve got in your pantry, freezer, or fridge.
• Buttermilk apple fritters: Breakfast of big-boned champions.
• When I was a kid, waffles meant it was a very good day.
• Olive oil orange cookies.
• Dip the fish in batter made with beer and then deep fry it. You know you want to.
• Rustic pear tart: A thing you can make without a pie plate.
• Dulce de leche pudding.
• Hi, I’m dying. I thought chicken noodle soup would help.
• Curry in a hurry?
• A very long post about pumpkin pierogies.
• Cake … again? Or, “How to get ‘curvy’ for winter.”
• Cake for breakfast.
• Dinner was fabulous. Wish you were here.
• Horses’ Arses.
• An abundance of green tomatoes.
• I got crabs from Paul.
• This is not a post about turkey, because I’m not talking about leftovers yet.
• Eating chicken pot pie is like stuffing a blanket in the crack of a draughty door.
• I think a responsible choice deserves a baked good. And I had to clean out the fridge anyway.
• I pretty much just like saying “Wellington.”
• My First Pavlova.
• The most wonderful little baby eggplants, and I suppose that now it’s actually officially fall.
• Earthy toasty mushroomy deliciousness, a thing you should eat with wine while wearing pajamas.
• No recipe here, just a quick note in which I prop up other people.
• And now for something completely different. Also? Pork Wellington.
• I guess it’s fall now, the crock pot is out. Or, “A recipe for hearty baked beans.”
• Coronation grape granita: How to say “I love you, Me.”
• Lemon sugar cookies.
• Strawberries. Vanilla beans. Burning. And I am not allowed to can anymore.
• Tomatoes and lemons and very good bread.
• In which it takes me a very long time to get to the point, the point being soufflé.
• Spaghetti squash latkes.
• Beet pickles, zucchini relish, and my fingernails are still stained purple.
• Fried green tomatoes, and I think it’s a sign.
• Drunken Spaghetti.
• Warm cucumbers? A good idea, actually.
• Sponge cake slathered in melted jam, and topped with ice cream. And this is not a blog about eating for your health.
• The best tomato sauce you’ve ever tasted. For real. I’m not even exaggerating. Yes!
• August 6 was National Root Beer Float Day. Did you know? DID YOU CALL YOUR DAD?
• Mapo doufu, because it finally cooled off enough for comfort food.
• Cobbling together a cobbler while baking in the heat.
• Eating in Portland: Touristing for the Gluttonous.
• Peaches that taste like candy.
• You know when your week has sucked and it’s Wednesday and you smell and you don’t feel like trying hard over dinner? Make pizza. Everyone will think you like them way more than you actually do.
• Vanilla scones for your jammed-up summer berries. Starbucks? You fail. (Slash, I win.)
• Ceviche: Impressive for date night and not very many dollars. Which still somehow doesn’t nullify the other expenses, but oh well. I don’t know why we’re broke either.
• Canning: The Third Act. And it turns out that 10 years later, math can still get the better of you. Or, “Strawberry red currant jam.”
• The Second Act: A raspberry jam success story. (I think.)
• This was supposed to be a single post about raspberries, but it’s turned into a three-part series, and this is the introduction, so bear with me. It will either conclude awesomely, or you will find me on my kitchen floor in tears. Or, “Canning: Act 1.”
• Sometimes you just want to drink wine, eat pudding, and watch YouTube videos of wiener dogs getting their cute on, and I’d like to think that there isn’t anything wrong with that.
• A half-assed Google search revealed that while there are Mexican Indians, there are no Indian Mexicans. I may have just invented an entirely new culture, and their cuisine is awesome.
• Moussaka is not a character from the Lion King.
• Winnipeg … you CAN have too much sky. And never enough pancakes.
• Until recently, I have had my suspicions about spelt. But then I added cherries.
• Cherry turnovers are perfect for busy people who prefer to take their pies to go.
• A meatball held together by melted cheese is structurally unsound. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t all kinds of delicious.
• Invoking Korea: I am madly in love with all pancakes.
• Clams in porter and cream: If there’s a better title, I can’t think of it.
• Today was also the best day ever, and I know that you’re going to stop believing me when I say that. Here, have some strawberry shortcake.
• This whole post is little more than me bragging about my day off. Which was awesome. I crave your envy.
• Awesome sauce: From epic failure comes great success.
• Chana masala, eight years ago, and the only thing I miss about Surrey.
• Sweet potato gnocchi: Just because you’re broke doesn’t mean you have to eat poverty food.
• Sometimes I feel like I am being followed around by my own personal fail whale, and I am not Ahab. Or, “Coconut Layer Cake: A delicious summer treat.”
• Berry muffins and your leftover rice.
• Fish wrapped in grape leaves: Better than fish not wrapped in grape leaves. (Fact.)
• Grilled (and then chilled) potato salad, or, “How to Accessorize a Meatfest.”
• LAMBURGER!
• Nothing says “I love you” like a freezer full of meat. This is a post about ice cream.
• The fish is just a vehicle for the tartar sauce. Obviously.
• Bitochki stroganoff. Or, fresh herbs really shine through in a meatball.
• Bacon fat cookiestravaganza. Or, how to make you fall in love with me. Except that I probably wouldn’t tell you what was in these if I was trying to woo you.
• An Unbalanced Breakfast.
• Ribs: Because meat sure is tasty!
• I worked from home today, and in the process of being VERY PRODUCTIVE, I remembered that about two weeks ago, Heather asked how to make spaghetti carbonara, and I totally lied and said, “Coming right up!” and then failed to deliver. Well, here it is, Heather. YOU’RE WELCOME.
• Got ketchup? Make udon.
• There is nothing more beautiful than a wine-fridge filled-to-bursting with overstock in racks on the floor. Or, Touring Langley Wineries: A Good Idea.
• Les Faux Bourgeois: A trendy new place to eat fast and get sneered at. Or, a heartbreaking disappointment that I may never recover from.
• Kung Fu Panda French Porcupines.
• Rape Whistle Dog Attack? Make Pad Thai.
• Old-Fashioned White Bread from Sponge and Homemade Butter.
• Sweet potatoes are the best thing ever for you. Even if you get swine flu. Though if you get swine flu, call me, because I’d like to lick your door knobs.
• Beets: Adventure roots!
• New Jersey Crumb Buns. Or, “Be Nice to your Wife, Jerkface.”
• A day of many delights: Rapini, and then blackberry scones.
• Scones. Soup. Codeine. Trifecta?
• Emily vs. Kitchen
• Things that are not okay: Wanting to slather your naked self in frosting and only not doing it because you’re at tea with your mother-in-law who probably wouldn’t care if you did it but might still think less of you even though she might not say anything.
• Saucy meat makes romance.
• A perfectly lovely flex-Friday breakfast for one.
• Puttanesca: Scandal Pasta for a Night Alone
• Phoning it in with Focaccia Bread.
• Vegetabletarian? We serve your kind here.
• Cooking without Borders, or, Yellow Fever: Continued
• Bulgogi: Not just a dirty euphemism.
• Broke and full. Success!
• Meatload?
• Pancakes news archive
• Dutch Babies: Good to Eat
• I’m probably dying. Let them eat cake.
• Another meat fest, now featuring potatoes au gratin!
• Pumpernickel for Grace
• Gomae, pork tenderloin, fried rice, and vegetables – I smell great!
• KFC delivers when I do not.
• Last night …
• Mulled wine for Michael
• Carrot cake! Blood oranges! Ginger!
• White bread with sweet potato
• Roasting chicken makes it easy to forget that some days your job is kind of boring and takes up all your chicken-roasting time.