Happy Nirvana

Photo: Kelly Rossiter Unlike yesterdays post on Hen of the Woods mushrooms, chanterelles are a well known ingredient. They aren’t available for very long, so if you find them at your farmers’ market, don’t miss the opportunity to eat them. I guess it’s just as well that you can’t get them often, because they are [...]

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I seem to have eaten a lot of pasta this week, mostly because I have been looking for recipes that are quick and easy.This time there is a bit more protein involved because of the kidney beans. For those of you who can’t stand kidney beans, you could consider making this with [...]

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I went to my local farmers’ market last Saturday for the first time in weeks. I was so happy to see fresh chanterelles still available. They are so expensive that I only buy them once or twice a year as a treat, but I think they are worth it. Often I don’t [...]

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I love the flavour of lemon and capers together. I like a sauce that is so piquant that it makes your mouth pucker. My husband isn’t so crazy about it, so it’s one of the first things I think to make for myself if he isn’t going to be home for dinner. [...]

Photo: Kelly Rossiter Our cottage neighbours, the Johnson family, have been raising chickens for a year or so. Their young sons were keen to start a little business and they thought they would like to sell eggs. I thought they had six chickens, and not too many eggs. It turns out that they have eighteen [...]

Photo: Kelly Rossiter This is one of those super quick and easy recipes to make as a side dish to a grilled or fried tofu, or tofu with a sauce, or even the braised squash with black beans that I wrote about yesterday. … Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I seem to have made a couple of lucky choices in squash recipes this week. After the delicious squash pasta I had the other night, I tried something completely different with a kabocha squash. This time I braised it in a black bean sauce which turned out to be another wonderful dinner. [...]

Photo: Kelly Rossiter Sometimes you have the happy occurance when you come across a recipe that sounds absolutely delicious, and you have all of the ingredients on hand without having to slip out to the grocery store. I had a squash sitting on my kitchen counter and a sage plant running riot in my garden [...]

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I follow a website called Stonesoup and the writer Jules Clancy has a brilliant series of recipes that use 5 ingredients and take 10 minutes to make. It’s a site that is well worth visiting, especially if you want to cook healthy food at home but have a hectic schedule and not [...]

As I’ve said before, you can make pesto out of anything you like. When I came home from my summer at the cottage to see that my garden was overrun with kale, it seemed like making pesto was a good plan. My husband puts up with kale, but it isn’t his favourite vegetable. However, once [...]