Cooking in Season
Tips for Strawberry Picking
Getting the best strawberry is not simply a matter of going to a U-pick. You must also know where to pick and how to pick. Let me show you.
Cooking in Season
The Wild Salmon Taste-Off: Red Spring vs White Spring
This evening, our family had a taste-test for dinner. And it all started because of the new guy at …
Essential Thai
How to Cut and Juice a Lime
How frustrating it is to juice a lime! But I have an awesome trick for you. Quick, easy, with step-by-step illustrations and guaranteed satisfying results.
My Life in Food
Defending Our Backyard
Defening our Backyard is a fabulous food festival and fundraiser for local farmers (wow, say that 5 times fast). It takes place on Vancouver Island at the end of May every year.
Essential Thai
Thai Style Stir-Fried Greens
Yesterday, I did some experimenting with a beautfiul bunch of yin choy, otherwise known as Amaranth greens. You …
Cooking in Season
Yin Choy, aka Amaranth Greens
I have been eyeing up yin choy, the beautiful fuschia-stained green vegetable in the Chinese market. I am finally given an excuse to take some home and experiment.
Cooking in Season
How to Cut a Mango
Many of us are mango-challenged, which is completely understandable. Mangoes hide a huge, hard, flattened pit inside themselves, making it impossible for a …
Essential Thai
Ataulfo Mango: No Floss Needed
Spring is mango season. They are ripe, they are cheap, they are abundant. One of my (many) spring …
Cooking in Season
Ode to the Moss Street Market
Moss Street Market, after six months apart, I had forgotten how much I loved you.
My Life in Food
School Day Large-Flake Oatmeal Method
The School Day Oatmeal Method is not really quick or dirty, but it works around a busy weekday morning, so you can still have a yummy, warm, filling, tasty breakfast. Better than cold cereal.
Cooking in Season
Three Bears Porridge
A seven-year-old is inspired by the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and invents the yummiest porridge ever, now a favourite breakfast in our home, in both winter and summer.
My Life in Food
Ethnoecology
I blame it on Ethnoecology. I can’t blog, write, work or cook, because of Environmental Studies 321: An …
