Tag Archives: herbs
Sweet potato and pear barlotto.
Around here, risotto is a favoured comfort food. I like its toothsome porridginess (can that be a thing? Or is that redundant? Can porridge be toothsome?), and the way it lends itself to infinite variations. Nick likes carbs and wine … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, cheese, quick, Recipe, vegetables, vegetarian, wine
Roasted tomato and garlic soup
Tomato soup is one of those things on the list of “Oh, I thought I didn’t like that,” which has gotten shorter and shorter as I’ve gotten older. For years I despised tomato soup, because I thought it all tasted … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, Recipe, soup, vegetarian
Corn and asparagus salad
As of about 1:30 p.m. last Friday, it is now summer on the west coast and I am wearing a sundress and remembering my thighs now that they are not prevented by denim or Lycra from rubbing together. Finally, things … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, quick, Recipe, salad, vegetables, vegetarian
And then I fell into the couch and ate watermelon salad until none remained.
Sometimes I have no idea where the time goes. My nightstand is still littered with evidence of Paris and the suitcase which still features the Air Canada tags from my trip in May is still on the floor. Not long … Continue reading
Filed under cheap, quick, Recipe, salad, vegetables, vegetarian
Pear galette with rosemary and Chevre.
Nick and the cat are fighting over bedtime (they holler at each other while he completes his nighttime routine), and she needed to have her claws trimmed a week ago and now it’s his problem, and it’s laundry night but … Continue reading
Filed under Baking, cheap, Recipe, vegetarian
Rapini and sausage with white beans and orecchiette
When we found out that Nick has diabetes, we were lucky in that we were already eating mostly pretty well, most of the time, cheese and butter and cream aside, and that we didn’t have to make significant dietary changes. … Continue reading
Yogurt cheese, smoked salmon, and canneloni.
Oh, this week! I don’t know where it’s gone, and I have two modes and two modes only these past seven days: frantic disorganization and head-bobbing lethargy, neither of which has proven to be particularly sustainable. My arthritis is flaring … Continue reading
Filed under cheese, fish & seafood, pasta, quick, Recipe
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
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
