Gardens, Home, Recipes, & Stories
One of my favourite games to play is finding creative ways to use up random ingredients, especially when I'm running low on groceries. Today's challenge started with 3 beets and no idea what to make for dinner. The cold drizzly weather had me in the mood for soup, and when I googled beet soup I… Continue reading Beet & Rice Soup Recipe
This recipe was inspired by the Red Curry Chicken recipe in Quick & Easy Thai Cuisine Lemon Grass Cookbook by Chef Rut Poladitmontri & Judy Lew. Makes 12 servings, leftovers are excellent, freezes well. Ingredients: 4 - 400 ml cans full fat coconut milk4 oz (114 g) can Maesri red curry paste0.25 cup coconut aminos… Continue reading Thai Red Curry Vegetarian Recipe
If your husband is like mine, he sometimes gets the wrong thing on the grocery list. I had cream style corn on the list once, and he came back with canned niblet corn, so I turned his mistake into a delicious chowder! Makes a very large pot of soup. Leftovers can be reheated or frozen.… Continue reading Corn, Bean & Potato Chowder Recipe
Let it simmer in the crockpot all day while you're at work, and come home to this perfect spicy warming winter soup for dinner on a dark cold Canadian evening. Leftovers reheat beautifully. Ingredients: 1/2 red onion, finely diced112 g bottle of red curry paste4 cups vegetable broth (4 cups water & 4 t bouillon… Continue reading Sweet Potato and Lentil Red Curry Soup Recipe
Pesto Ingredients: 2 cups fresh cilantro or basil 3 large garlic cloves 1/4 cup olive oil 1/4 t ground red pepper 1/4 cup raw hulled sunflower seeds Pesto Instructions: Add all ingredients together in a food processor or blender. Puree until almost smooth. Any leftovers can be frozen in ice cube trays for individualized portions… Continue reading Spicy Pesto & Roast Vegetables Recipe
This recipe was inspired by the Red Curry Chicken recipe in Quick & Easy Thai Cuisine Lemon Grass Cookbook by Chef Rut Poladitmontri & Judy Lew. Makes a very large batch, so half or quarter recipe. Freezes and reheats well. Ingredients: 4 - 400 ml cans coconut milk 2 - 112 g jar red curry… Continue reading Red Curry Chicken Recipe
I have had very little success baking or cooking with coconut flour in the past, but some friends of mine swore up and down these Fluffly Coconut Flour Pancakes from Nourishing Days were a whole different ballgame. I tried them today and I have to agree they are awesome. They didn't turn out as perfect looking as… Continue reading Coconut Flour Pancakes Recipe
On a cold and miserable winter day, there's nothing quite as warming as a big bowl of steaming hot creamy soup. This one is easy to prepare, and full of flavour. Ingredients 2 T butter 0.5 red onion, diced 1 t garlic, crushed 1 stalk celery, diced finely 2 T vegetable bouillon 4 cups water 4 small potatoes,… Continue reading Cream of Broccoli & Potato Soup Recipe
This recipe is a slightly revised version of Burgoo Butter Chicken from the Vancouver, BC Burgoo bistro owners Justin Joyce and Stephen MacIntyre. Ingredients: 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts diced 0.25 cup butter 0.25 cup garam masala salt 1 medium onion, diced 1 T ginger, minced 3 cloves garlic, minced 0.5 T ground turmeric 0.5 tsp dried fenugreek… Continue reading Butter Chicken Recipe
We had an unseasonably hot and dry summer and as a result, a very good apple season. Our neighbour has an old apple tree that hangs over into our yard and he encourages us to pick whatever is on our side. We have a lot of apples right now so I whipped up this treat… Continue reading Apple Crisp Recipe
