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Six New Recipes
We are obviously better at cooking and eating than we are at writing and blogging. Here is a quick synopsis of the latest recipes. Number 34 and 35 were from “Grilled Cheese Kitchen” by Heidi Gibson and Nate Pollak. Farmer’s … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, Food, Photography, vegetarian, winter
Tagged cheese, cooking, food, lemon, photography, vegetarian
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Harvest Salad With Maple Vinaigrette
This is the first recipe in Jamie Deen’s “Good Food” book. Peel and chop a butternut squash, or a couple of sweet potatoes, into cubes, drizzle with oil and season. Bake at 200C/400F for 30 minutes. Let it cool. Make … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, Food, vegetarian
Tagged butternut squash, Fall, harvest, Maple, salad, vegetarian
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Cleaning Out the Fridge!
We had food in the fridge, but there didn’t seem to be enough of anything to make a meal. What to do? Look up some new recipes! We had one orange, one avocado, a bit of lettuce, and two and … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, cooking, Food, vegetarian
Tagged apple, Baking, cake, cooking, salad, vegetarian
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End of Season Tomatoes
We had a pile of very ripe tomatoes and decided to make a roast tomato sauce as our thirtieth new recipe this year. We got the recipe from a great book called “Small-Batch Preserving” by Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard. … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, Food, Gardens, vegetarian
Tagged cooking, food, garden, tomatoes, vegetarian
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Gnocchi with Sage Butter
If someone put a potato and half an egg on a plate and told you it was your dinner, what would you think? A plate of gnocchi is exactly that. How can so little be so good and so filling? … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, Food, Photography, vegetarian
Tagged cooking, food, gnocchi, photography, vegetarian
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So Far Behind!
I think we are past the point where we can catch up with everything, so this will be a quick post listing new recipes we have made for this years challenge. Number 20, sauerkraut Number 21, Sauerkraut, ham and potato … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, cooking, Food, Photography, vegetarian
Tagged Baking, cooking, food, photography, vegetarian
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Summer Soup
Our garden is finally producing some food after a very slow start, so we used some of our garden stash to make Squash Blossom Soup from “Pati’s Mexican Table” by Pati Jinich. We call them zucchini and the English call … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, Food, Gardens, Photography, vegetarian
Tagged blossom, cooking, food, garden, soup, squash, Summer, vegetarian, zucchini
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Slow and Steady
We’re changing pace for the next two recipes. We found this wonderful slow cooker recipe book by Ricardo called “Slower is Better”. We can use our slow cooker in the basement which stops the house heating up. Plug in two … Continue reading
Posted in Art, cooking, Food
Tagged art, cooking, food, potatoes, Ricardo, slow cooker, spaghetti sauce, vegetarian
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Canada 150
We went to see the tall ships sail into Hamilton Harbour yesterday, as part of the Canada 150 celebration. Fully rigged Keeping cool in the shade A flyover by a Lancaster and a B-25 Today’s rainy celebration in Mississauga We … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Food, Photography
Tagged Canada, celebrations, food, Matt Basile, photography, tall ships
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