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Leap Year Bite

tomato, avocado, mushroom, mayo, red pepper sauce on rye

Sweat Treats

Probiotic yogurt sprinkled with raspberries and ground hazelnut and a little later, beavertail, that pastry of the town…

Polenta

Okra, red pepper, snow peas, onion, mushrooms in butter as polenta grills its salsa and feta.

Okra Pizza

Pizza with broccoli, okra, mushroom, red pepper, loads of oregano, mozzarella, feta, havarti and hot pepper.

Cranberry Hazelnut Financier / French Nut Cake

Serves 6-8, modified from Feb. 7, 08 food section, Ottawa Citizen.
1 cup of ground hazelnuts, toasted
2/3 cup whole wheat organic all purpose flour
1 Tbs creme de marrons
3/4 cup white sugar
pinch salt

1 medium ripe pear, cut in 1/4 inch cubes
1 tsp grated ginger
1 cup cranberries, fresh or frozen, cut in half
1/4 sugar

6 large egg whites
pinch salt
1/2 […]

Sandwich Substitute

What if you want a peanut butter and banana sandwich but have no bread in the house?

Asparagus

Tabouli with extra mint among the parsley, murshrooms in thin buttery sauce over the brown and short grain rice mix with our good friend asparagus. Which reminds me going out shopping with a friend and going ooh, that looks good, to the asparagus, and the carrots, and parsnips, and zucchini and English cucumber. No theme […]