Ah yes, Europe’s Best, purveyor of frozen veggie blends. Europe apparently extends further east than I previously suspected:
Category: Edibles
Falafels and process
Just down the street from my office, and around the corner from D.’s old office, there was a falafel place with much promise. The area is high on all varieties of Asian but decent shawarma is a little thin on the ground. I went there a couple of times and each time I had a […]
29* things to be happy about
If Mark Morford can come up with 29 things to be happy about, I imagine I can too. Central heating and a non-leaky roof. I’ve spent enough time living in tents that I really grok the utter luxury that is the concept of Inside. Get wet? No problem; you can go inside where it’s warm […]
There’s WHAT in my cookies??
From a federal government press release in my RSS — Allergy Alert – Undeclared Milf Protein in Anna’s Biscuits and Cookies All kinds of rude jokes practically write themselves. (as of this moment, they haven’t fixed it on the website either)
The season of Projects
Late summer and early fall are usually the season of Projects in our house. They’re usually of the preserving kind, although as always renovation projects elbow their way in as well. First up (June or July) is the strawberry-jam project, which is later followed by other berry jams and various peach projects (August), then grape […]
And the cycle continues
We were pleased to be not the only ones returning a large number of wine bottles to the Beer Store. Everyone seemed to have large boxes or garbage cans full of the things… maybe everyone else saved them up for the whole summer too. Probably I shouldn’t respond to this by ordering more wine, but […]
Lentils, peas and canola oh my
These pictures are going to be too big for the blog template, but oh well. You can’t see the detail if they’re any smaller. I’d never thought much about what lentils look like when they’re growing. Turns out they look something like this when they’re just about ready to harvest — they’re inside the small […]
Animal, vegetable, miracle
Animal, vegetable, miracle: a year of food life by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. It’s a simple premise for an experiment: what does it look like to spend a year eating food you’ve either produced yourself or sourced locally? The Kingsolver/Hopp family certainly aren’t the only ones who have attempted this […]
Indeed.
Quotation of the Day for June 4, 2007 “It is not really an exaggeration to say that peace and happiness begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking.” – X. Marcel Boulestin, cook and writer (1878-1943)
Proto-strawberries
Proto-strawberries Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. In a few weeks we’ll be fighting the squirrels and raccoons for these…
Woe and sandwiches
Quotation of the Day for April 25, 2007: “I now know why my own childhood packed lunches were such joyless, dispirited affairs. It was vengeance. And despair. Somehow it is very hard to feel inspired to make sandwiches at 8.15 in the morning. I just stare into the fridge. “As Nietzsche said, peer long enough […]
Pasha
The Estonian Easter dessert. (Ingredients, courtesy of my grandmother. Method developed by my mom’s trial-and-error experiments, and mine.) Ingredients: 2 lbs dry cottage cheese (This is sold in vacuum packs near the regular cottage cheese. Salted? Unsalted? Some of each? Up to you. I used 1/2 salted, 1/2 unsalted, but that’s just because that’s all […]
Some people’s Estonian grandmothers share recipes
…with the Toronto Star, no less: Estonian cuisine via grandma. Mine on the other hand, is deeply reluctant to share. I have her recipe for apple cake: “It’s a sweet dough, with yeast and cardamom. Then apples and some sugar and flour on top.” Okay then! I did attempt this “recipe” once. What I made […]
A soup for winter
This is a soup similar to one I had once in a teashop in Wales, or possibly Ireland — my sister may remember. It was a cold day in February (well, not Canadian cold, but zero-ish). I was starving for no particularly good reason and half-frozen so I gave the soup a try even though […]
Book #14 – Vij’s: Elegant and Inspired Indian Cuisine
by Vikram Vij & Meeru Dhalwala This is our current favourite cookbook. My Mom bought it for us right when it came out, because Vij is our favourite restaurant in Vancouver and she knew we’d love it. The great thing about these recipes is that they are, for the most part, cheap to make. We […]