Eaten Up

Salad

Pearl — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:32:45 +0000

Fruit and fruit in salad.

And if I don’t see you tomorrow, or even if I do, happy Canada Day!

Saturday’s picnic in the park…

Pearl — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:24:50 +0000

For kado with fellowship came food…

Egg salad sandwich, quinoa salad, beet salad, hummus, carrots, bread, pesto…

Claudia’s clever peach and apple cake with icing on the inside, slices wrapped like sandwiches in wax paper.

Guy’s wife made a lemon-cranberry loaf.

Brunch at Memories

Pearl — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:53:39 +0000

We split a breakfast wrap with fruit salad brunch at Memories restaurant, and they portioned it out to 2 plates.

Later, we had some summer salad with strawberries, cucumbers, cashews and citrus salad dressing and an almond alfredo sauce topped with cilantro and macadamia nut pesto. Thank goodness we have flavorful fruits and greens again. It’s been a long winter.

Currant Oatmeal Cookies

Pearl — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:47:52 +0000

Forgot to post from a week ago…

1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp (about) cardamum
1/2 cup soft butter, unsalted
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup (or less) almond milk
2 cups quick cook rolled oats
1 cup currants
1/2 cup or more puffed flax

Sift first 4 ingredients. Cream butter and sugar, adding eggs. Mix wet and dry gradually, folding in the last 3 ingredients. Drop by spoonfuls on baking pan. Bake at 350 for 18 minutes or until golden. Makes 4-5 dozen.

Pita and Rice Salad

Pearl — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:44:56 +0000

Whole wheat pita with cucumber, tomato and mayo and a wild rice salad with peaches and sunflower seeds, cranberries, green onion and balsamic vinegrette dressing.

Admittance Meal

Pearl — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:44:54 +0000

After the soup and before the tea, the admittance meal provided for the family as dad’s put in the old age home.

Chili and bun, with juice and apricots to come. (The non-vegetarian option he went for was coleslaw, sausage, fries and nanaimo bar.)

Cool Salads for Warm Days

Pearl — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:58:52 +0000

Scottish oatcake topped with black beans, salsa and chives, avocado and tomato salad with a leaf of nasturtium, cucumber, yellow pepper and yogurt salad on our home-grown lettuce, and some heated canned stuffed zucchini.

A meal in the park of nibbles, blueberries, sliced biscotti, apricots and canned stuffed zucchini from Turkey.

Vegetarian recipes.

Stewed Rhubarb

Pearl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:21:43 +0000

What the stewed rhubarb looks like 45 minutes in. I followed the recipe, except I threw into recipe some ginger, cloves and apple sauce.

Love that foam on top. My mom used to skim it off and I’d eat it. She thought I shouldn’t. I left it in mine.

6 cups raw made 2 medium mason jars full. Filled to about 1/2 inch from the top so that in cooling, it would pop the lids down as the air contracts.

Eat these Long Johns

Pearl — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:18:26 +0000

A sort of gingerbread spice cookie from a traditional recipe from Nova Scotia historical village.

(I used 3/4 cup of unsalted butter instead of 1/2 cup each of shortening and butter.) You can roll it out flat and chill, then once chilled used a cookie cutter but it seemed to make more sense to roll and slice. They spread a little in cooking.

Udon

Pearl — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:18:02 +0000

Organiv Udon made into a cold pasta salad, boiled with dried seaweed (wakame? I forget), dried veggies, unsalted cashews and tossed with seitan and soy sauce