The challenge of the grocery store: karela. India’s bitter melon has the same health benefit’s but is lumpier, more of a hedgehog. A lot of recipes seem to call for stuffing it with meat or a spice mix tied into it’s hollowed middle and bake, or else deep fry it until crisp. Generally the strong [...]
Start with the basics. Keep close to them. Hard pears are really hard so they need to be boiled. Maybe add sugar. Trimming them and peeling them, the hands get sticky so there’s natural sugars there to release. It took me back to my aunt’s yard in childhood, sitting in the grass in the hot [...]
Garlic scapes might escape the thin crust. Inspired by al the couple week season and beautiful garlic scape pictures, was thinking the garlic tops would work treated very simply. What have we got? A snip of our thyme which the finches left for us. A clip of our oregano and chives. On top of a [...]
Using this vegan nut loaf as a guideline (but this recipe review is a must-read humour column.) I used the remainder of the cooked rice-kasha-mushroom-onion filling, mixed with the things below. Big week for the food processor. Chopped and whirred in it were: 2 stalks celery 6 cloves of garlic 1 green onion 3/4 cup [...]
Based on this gaspacho soup recipe. 4 medium tomatoes 1/2 English cucumber 1 stalk celery 4 cloves garlic 1 slice of bread (stale herb and rye) 1/4 cup olive oil (up to) squeezes of lime fresh ground pepper Roughly chop the vegetables. Tear up the bread into chunks. Add all the ingredients to a food [...]
The Nervous Cook wrote in to ask how we make fluffy whole wheat bread and the key is in two things: 1) Ingredients 2) Technique Ingredients: 1 cup water 1 tsp salt 1 1/2 tsp active dry yeast 2 cups President’s Choice organic whole wheat flour (no additives) 1/2 cup white bread flour (from organic [...]
dry: 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 cup white flour 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp baking powder 3 tbsp white sugar fat: 1/4 cup goat butter 1/4 cup Earth Balance (“vegan butter”) wet: 3/4 cup almond milk Mix the dry ingredients. Cut in the butter. Add enough liquid so it becomes a soft dough. Turn [...]
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