Vegetables

Roasted Golden Beet Salad with Tarragon Dressing

Gold is the new red. At least for me when it comes to beets. In the past I have been more than a little vocal about my dislike of your garden variety red beets. I want to like them. Really. They have a gorgeous ruby …

Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Recipes, Salad, Savory, Summer, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Stuffed Mushrooms with Plums and Hazelnuts

Perhaps it’s the difference between European and North American sizes. Maybe our crops are bigger and our platters smaller. If shown the same mushroom, would French and Canadian eaters argue over whether it was small, medium or large? I don’t know. But I do know …

Egg-free, Fruit, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Mains, Recipes, Savory, Side Dish, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian

The Canadian Food Experience: English Cucumbers

Living in Ontario has many advantages. Spring brings maple syrup, fiddleheads, ramps, rhubarb and garlic scapes. Summer provides back-to-back crops of fruits and vegetables starting with seed-studded strawberries and ending with juicy, sweet peaches. Good luck keeping up with all Autumn provides — apples, beets, …

Garden, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Improv, Original, Recipes, Salad, Savory, Summer, Vegetables

Asparagus and Mushroom Tart with Red Wine Cheddar

I know better than to go shopping without a list. I have at least three iPhone apps to help me compile them. Pads of paper cling to the fridge simply so I can jot down items as I deplete their inventory. Lists prevent wastage, overstocking …

Appetizer, Baking, Egg-free, Mains, Original, Recipes, Savory, Spring, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Mushrooms Rockefeller

I got myself into this and I’m going to get myself out. I did not, repeat not, acquire a one-trick pony of a pan. I could point you to the Indian, Thai, Korean and Japanese variations of the aebleskiver, but really, they’re all just spins on batter …

Appetizer, Christmas, Egg-free, Original, Recipes, Savory, Side Dish, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Nigella’s Green Beans with Pistachio Pesto

To paraphrase from Nigella Lawson’s latest book Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes, this dish is “verdiglorious.” Green basil, green beans, and green pistachios all come together in a “riot” of a pesto dish. What it lacks in authenticity, it more than makes up for in colour …

Book review, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Recipes, Savory, Side Dish, Summer, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Cumin Carrots with Cilantro Vinaigrette

Fool me once, shame of you. Fool me twice (a dozen times), shame, shame, double-shame on me. It took years, but I learned my lesson. No Newspaper Recipes. None. Do not clip them for me. I will throw them out. Do not make them for …

Autumn, Book review, Christmas, Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Recipes, Savory, Side Dish, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter

Roasted Cauliflower, Pomegranate & Hazelnut Salad

This roasted cauliflower salad serves as my reminder that good recipes are flexible. Good recipes invite experimentation. They serve as helpful guidelines, not rigid rules. With titles like “The Best This” or “The Ultimate That” it’s easy to forget no one recipe has a monopoly …

Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Original, Recipes, Salad, Savory, Side Dish, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter

Pampered

If I come back as a vegetable I want to be kale. Ruffly, versatile, pretty kale. Not only would I be my favourite colour (green), I’d finally have unstoppable curls — something I can’t achieve even with hot rollers and a perm. But I’d be …

Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Original, Recipes, Salad, Savory, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian