We were out of town on Monday and Tuesday and I completely forgot that I was going to try to post my weekly menu… on a weekly basis! Anyways, we didn’t forget to make a menu plan for this week, I just didn’t share it. Every week we tend to focus on one cookbook, this […]
In the winter I tend to have a hard time coming up with pasta ideas that are meatless. I find that when I make pasta sauce using only canned vegetables or winter vegetables I really crave meat. However, as a family we limit our meat-based meals to an average of one per week. Well, thanks […]
We celebrated our real Easter meal with family Saturday evening and it was a big production featuring Mediterranean foods. It was a feast – and much of the afternoon was spent in the kitchen and around the grill. It featured hummus, Tzatziki, walnut dip, tabouleh, Greek salad, chickpea-cucumber salad, whole wheat pita bread, feta, grapes, […]
I always feel a bit embarrassed referring to a meal as “Indian Night” because I know I am unqualified to cook it. I brought over a few of my parathas to my neighbors to try and felt like I needed to put air quotes around “Indian” when I told them that’s what we were having. […]
I spent Sunday afternoon building a “cold frame hoop house.” The weather was mild (around freezing) and the work was mostly easy. I’m happy with the results and hopefully my seedlings will be too when they head outside in a few weeks. I’m hoping that the structure will help warm the soil upon which it […]
My wife and I have been menu planning ever since we had our first child which was just over three years ago! We started keeping track of the plans last summer. This winter after our move North I had time to make the plans a bit more detailed which is what prompted me to start […]
I planted my seeds on March 13. By the weekend some of the lettuce had sprouted and now pretty much everything has sprouted. I’m just waiting on the peppers.
This is my first attempt at fusion. It mostly happened because I felt like I wanted to have tacos with some of the leftover chicken but also wanted a cucumber salad for a side (Ontario has great greenhouse cukes through the winter). Thus the cucumber became Tzatziki and the black beans became Black Bean Hummus. […]
Well, the theme for winter cooking has been beets. And it’s a good theme since I think that beets are wonderful! But I know that I many people have a hard time eating beets and I think it’s good for me to admit that beets can be quite hard (literally) to eat. So long as […]
I referenced a few days ago that I had made ciabatta with some of my pizza dough. I like to make my dough 1-3 days in advance to enhance the flavor*. Lately I’ve been using dough that is more or less a combination of pizza dough and ciabatta. Essentially the recipe is a ciabatta recipe […]