I’ve got to say, I am having THE BEST time experimenting in the kitchen as a newly omnivorous cook! I keep bookmarking all sorts of recipes, and every so often one gets really stuck in my head. These Turkey Meatballs from Bon Appétit totally got me fixating. I loved the idea of warm and homey […]
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian readers! I hope you are spending lots of time celebrating with family, friends, and loved ones, and eating all the delicious things. We had our feast last night, complete with turkey confetti, and I was so glad to bring this Cranberry & Cherry Chutney to the table as our […]
My lovely friend Karen brought me some hot hot hot “Devil’s Tongue” peppers from her garden, asking if I took requests for the blog. And when she said I could have the peppers if I made hot sauce and shared the recipe, I was TOTALLY in! I was debating what to do with them, and […]
Sometimes you need tacos or nachos, and sometimes you need a salad. My sister, Heather, and I always need tacos or nachos. There’s a local vegan restaurant that has tofu tacos with a creamy jalapeño/lime sauce… and we both love to order the tacos, mainly for the sauce. So I’ve been dying to make the […]
We’ve been doing a lot of salads around here lately, and it’s been a lot of the same thing over and over again… delicious versions of either our veggie Caesar salad over Romaine or my lemony arugula salad. But after a while, 2 salad options get a bit tiring, but we still want salad. So […]
If you’ve got your Niter Kibbeh all ready to go, what you need now is your spice blend. You can buy Berbere already made at Ethiopian groceries, as either a dry spice blend or a paste. Or you can make your own and make your kitchen smell divine. The Niter Kibbeh is a spiced oil, […]
So if you’ve decided you want to master Ethiopian food like you’ve been eating in restaurants, you’d better start making yourself some spiced oil to cook with. And if you are doing it while you’re celebrating Vegan Mofo, you’d better figure out how to do it without butter. A great resource for vegan (and gluten-free!) […]
Oh yes. You read that right. Chai Tea flavoured simple syrup. Ok, I know it’s sugar… but bear with me, because this syrup is so lusciously flavoured that all you need is a little bit (less than a teaspoon!) to infuse the full-of-spice Chai flavour! I’ve been experimenting with it on everything, and have found […]
Alright, on the theme of entertaining, I’ve got another appetizer for you. If you want to impress people with a dip, this is the one to go with. It’s a deep, dark, black olive tapenade. (Photo courtesy of the talented Dominic Tremblay: @d_tremblay on Twitter) And the secret is to use sundried black olives — […]
The inspiration? A line of text on a blog somewhere that said something like: “marinate kale in coconut milk for four hours, then grill”. You know that went to the TOP of my “To Make” List. And then I went researching, and found that there are all sorts of “grill kale marinated in coconut milk” […]
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