Impress your “veggie” friends with this mouthwatering starter. The combination of vegetables, gram flour (besan) and bread crumbs makes this dish a great starter or appetizer for a party. Your non-vegetarian friends will ask for a second helping, without...
Ending the calendar year in the winter was a great idea (shout out to our boy Gregory!). While there are a lot of great things that come with the season — snow, ice skating, significant holidays — it also means the year’s end for many things we love ...
This is the book I needed when I opened my first CSA (community supported agriculture) box a few years ago, looked at the then strange vegetables nestled inside of it and thought, whatever do I do with this green chunk of chard? Deborah Madison’s latest...
won’t repeat everything several of us already know about fruits. There are tons of benefits, not to mention their sweet aroma and wonderful flavours. However, these little wonders of nature can actually poison our system if not handled properly. ...
I think probably my favourite type of comfort food is this good old classic, bangers and mash with onion gravy, especially in this prolonged winter spell that we are currently having in Britain. This is a very warming, cheering and satisfying dish and...
I absolutely adore maple syrup. Being French-Canadian makes it easy to get my hands on the real product without paying too much for it. Although it is still a bit costly, we have an abundance of the delicious and tempting amber liquid that we use in ...
A few weeks ago I bought a coconut and was not sure what to do with. My landlady dropped in one day and suggested that I grate it and then it could be added to pretty much anything. And so I did just that. For a week I ate coconut soups, stews, veggies...
Living in rural northeast Iowa ~ granted in a college town so it doesn’t feel rural ~ it is easy to be a convert to the ‘grown locally’ movement. It wasn’t until after reading Philip Ackerman-Leist’s Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable...
This is an absolutely delicious stew that works really well for supper on a cool spring or summer night, and makes a great addition to a party buffet spread. It’s simple and quick to prepare, making it perfect for the more novice cooks in the household...
I am still on my culinary run of super-warming soups and stews, since the winter here in Britain has long outstayed its welcome, and is showing no signs of going yet. Although it is now officially Spring, the temperatures are still freezing, and we are...
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