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Zucchini Boats

Bread stuffing in zucchini boats beside seitan with garam masala sauce and spinach.

After steaming the zucchini and before baking scoop out and stuff with filling (below).

Torn rosemary and garlic bread, roasted garlic chopped, orange bell pepper, rose peppercorns or red peppercorns, Worcester sauce, olive oil, 2 year old cheddar, romano cheese and black pepper.

Asparagus Soup

Asparagus soup with basil-sun dried tomato bread, and our good shrub friend, broccoli.

Simmering onions, clove of garlic, bunch of asparagus (no tops) and celery for 5 minutes in water, covered, adding tops, parsley, basil and cornstarch and the carnation skim milk for 5 more minutes. When tender, remove from heat and puree in food processer, […]

Asparagus Provençale

Parsnips, Barley Curry Salad and Asparagus Provençale

Asparagus Provençale
3-4 servings aspargus (1/2 a large bunch)
3 Tbs unsalted butter
2 stalks celery, cut on bias
1/2 a green pepper, in strips
1 clove of garlic crushed
1/3 onion, thinly sliced into rings
1/2- 2/3 a large tomato, sliced into wedges
Preheat pan. Break tough ends of asparagus. Cut diagonally into 1/2 inch […]

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 […]

Raspberry Pie

3 tablespoons cornstarch
a cup of frozen rhubarb
3 cups of frozen raspberries,
3/4 sugar
a dollop of moreno cherry jam
a few squeezes of lime
Cooked until hot and thickening. Add a tablespoon of butter. Put into a prebaked shell (i.e. 425 degrees for 10 minutes) and do the lattice top and bake for 45 more minutes at 350 degrees.

Too […]

Spinach Pie

The recipe I more or less followed, but the spinach was 300 grams, chopped and frozen, the onions were white, I threw in a few small black olives, the dill was 1/4 cup frozen and proportionally more feta, about 100 grams.

Phyllo dough things to my tongue are often way too fatty but that’s the advantage […]

Mushroom Spinach Phyllo Casserole

Trying to emulate what we tasted at Commensal by memory and a prayer, I got nowhere close but it isn’t bad. Not creamy and lasagna-like as it was there, missing the leek and some particular spice, nonetheless, made with olive oil, tarragon, spinach, onion, red cabbage and white mushrooms layered with phyllo dough made a […]